Title:EXECUTION OF JAPANESE GENERAL BY FIRING SQUAD AT CHANGI AND LADY MOUNTBATTEN VISITS HOSPITALS AT SURABAYA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 592
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Three-part film showing (1&2) two cameramen's coverage of the execution of Lieutenant-General Fukuye Shimpei by firing squad on a beach at Changi, Singapore, and (3) a visit by Edwina Mountbatten to hospitals at Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja) in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia).
Description: Part 1, shot by Sergeant Tulloch: Lieutenant-General Fukuye is hooded by a British military policeman (MP); a group includes the MPs, and a Japanese interpreter (?). Fukuye, hooded and wearing handcuffs but with his hands unbound, is led down a flight of steps to the beach at Changi and he is tied to a stake. Fukuye is shot; the paper marker on his chest jerks and an earth bank behind the stake spurts dust. There is little outward sign of his being shot. Two shots of Fukuye's body hanging from the stake.
Part 2, shot by Sergeant Wilcox: Medium wide shot of the execution ground at Changi beach with trees and long grass. Firing squad with rifles levelled; they fire and camera pans to Fukuye's body at the stake. Long lens shot of body at the stake. Closer shot of the body.
Part 3, shot by Sergeant Davis: Lady Mountbatten arrives at a hospital, possibly 82 Indian General Hospital. Walking in the grounds with a nurse. She speaks to a British soldier, possibly Private William of 2nd Battalion The Buffs. Very dark shot, almost totally indecipherable, of Mountbatten talking to a soldier. Mountbatten in the grounds of a Dutch refugee camp. Mountbatten stepping down from an Royal Air Force Douglas Dakota transport aircraft, serial KK205 'Hermes', and she is greeted by Major-General Mansergh. She meets and chats with other officers. Mountbatten and Mansergh. Departing by car. Mountbatten talks with a nun at 'the Roman Catholic hospital'. Mountbatten and party walk along a verandah at the hospital.
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)
Wilcox (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Tulloch, John ReayJohn Reay Tulloch, 375458, sergeant (later lieutenant, commissioned 25 April 1946) cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit (SEAC Film Unit). (Production individual)
Davis, Desmond (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mansergh, Eric Carden Robert (person)
Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
Fukuye, Shimpei (person)
St John Ambulance (regiment/service)
British Red Cross Society (regiment/service)
British Army, Northamptonshire Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY (regiment/service)
British Army, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Changi, Singapore (geography)
Surabaya, Indonesia (geography)
Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Japanese Atrocities, War Crimes (event)
Singapore War Crimes Trials, War Crimes Trials (event)
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)
