Title:MOUNTBATTEN PRESENTS TROPHY TO SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 600
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, presents a captured Japanese artillery piece to the people of Singapore.
Description: A Japanese field gun stands draped in British flags outside the Municipal Building in Singapore as Mountbatten arrives by open staff car, gets out and takes a salute from a massed tri-service guard of honour. The Governor of Singapore, Franklin Gimson, arrives and receives a Royal salute. Mountbatten and Gimson inspect the guard. Spectators on the steps of the Municipal Building including Lady Mountbatten. Mountbatten and the Governor walk up the steps of the Municipal Building. They walk over to the gun, unveil it and walk around it. A colour party, bearing a Union flag which was present at the British surrender in 1942, marches up to Mountbatten and the flag is presented to him. The flag is returned to the bearer and the colour party marches off. Spectators. The flag is marched into the Municipal Building. Mountbatten and Gimson out of the Municipal Building. Guard of honour marches off past the Japanese gun and Mountbatten salutes.
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)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl)
Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
Gimson, Franklin Charles (person)
South East Asia Command (regiment/service)
Keywords: Singapore (geography)
Post-war Malaya 1945-1948 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
