Title:GENERAL DEMPSEY VISITS EAST AFRICAN TROOPS IN RANGOON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 545
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, commander Allied Land Forces South East Asia, visits east African troops in Rangoon, capital of reoccupied Burma.
Description: Dempsey is greeted by Brigadier Reginald Johnstone, commanding 22nd East African Brigade. Inspecting officers of the brigade. Dempsey meets Company Sergeant Major Koene. Dempsey visits 6 East African Infantry Workshops Company. He meets British and African staff of 110 (East African) Casualty Receiving Station (?). He enters an open-sided and tented hospital ward. Inspecting troops. [At this point a soldier wearing Army Film and Photo Unit patches, presumably photographer Sergeant W Morris, holds up Wilson's slate and indicates 'Roll 2' with his fingers.] At Lanmadaw Docks Dempsey gets out of his jeep and is greeted. He meets embarkation officials.
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)
Wilson, A (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Dempsey, Miles Christopher (person)
Allied Land Forces South East Asia (regiment/service)
British Army, 22nd East African Infantry Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, 6 East African Infantry Workshops Company (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rangoon, Burma (geography)
Allied Occupation of Burma, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
