Title:LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES IN BATAVIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 556
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lady Louis Mountbatten arrives in Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia), to inspect British and Indian hospitals.
Description: Two shots showing an RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft, serial FD800, taxiing at Batavia airport. Lady Mountbatten is met by Mrs van Mook, the wife of the Dutch Lieutenant-Governor. Mountbatten with two British officers, one wearing the patch of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance, and the other the patch of South East Asia Command (SEAC). Mountbatten and officers. Close-up of Mountbatten. Wide shot showing the group with the aircraft behind. Mountbatten departs by car marked 'SEAC Red Cross'. A sign reads '89 IGH [Indian General Hospital (C)'. At 85 General Hospital Lady Mountbatten goes inside and meets patients.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Pickering, W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
Douglas, Gerald Sholto (person)
St John Ambulance (regiment/service)
British Red Cross Society (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Army Medical Corps, 89 Indian General Hospital (regiment/service)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
