Title:INSTALLATION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 565
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The new Colonial Secretary of Singapore, Sir Patrick McKerron, is installed at the Municipal Building on the day of the creation of the Malayan Union.
Description: Part 1, shot by Sergeant Brown: McKerron and Major-General Lionel Cox, commander Singapore District, leaving the Municipal Building. McKerron, Cox and others at the salute for the national anthem. Inspecting the guard of honour mounted by 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. A Sikh band playing.
Part 2, shot by Sergeant Haywood: McKerron and Cox descend the steps. Cox saluting. McKerron and Cox. Crossing the road to the padang. Inspecting the guard of honour. View of the Municipal Building with band in the foreground. McKerron shakes hands with the commander of the guard. Band marching off with a large crowd. Guard of honour marching off with milling crowd. People watching.
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)
Brown, S T (Production individual)
Haywood, Harold (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: McKerron, Patrick Alexander Bruce (person)
Cox, Lionel Howard (person)
British Army, Northamptonshire Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Singapore (geography)
Formation of the Malayan Union 1946 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
JFU 564 (ARRIVAL OF THE NEW GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE [Allocated Title])
JFU 568 (ARRIVAL OF SIR EDWARD GENT, GOVERNOR OF THE MALAYAN UNION, IN KUALA LUMPUR [Allocated Title])
