Title:LORD KILLEARN ARRIVES IN SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 547
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Sir Miles Lampson, Lord Killearn, Special Commissioner to South East Asia, arrives at Kallang Airport in Singapore and is greeted by Lord Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia) and others.
Description: At Kallang Airport Singapore a guard of honour of the RAF Regiment sloping arms with staff cars approaching. The guard presents arms. Flypast by an RAF Avro York transport aircraft and an escorting squadron of Spitfire fighters. York coming in to land; parked aircraft including a Consolidated Liberator, de Havilland Mosquito, and Douglas Dakotas in foreground. York taxiing. Long lens shot of Killearn disemplaning. Band playing. Killearn inspecting guard of honour with Lord Mountbatten. He doffs his hat and shakes the hand of the guard commander as his leaves. Band marching off. Killearn and Mountbatten departing by staff car, which is marked with the four stars of a General and flying pennants of the Allied nations.
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)
Gordon, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Lampson, Miles Wedderburn (person)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
South East Asia Command (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kallang, Singapore (geography)
Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
