Title:LIEUTENANT-GENERAL MANSERGH VISITS MEDAN, SUMATRA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 609
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lieutenant-General Mansergh, commander Allied Forces Netherlands East Indies, visits forces at Medan, Sumatra.
Description: Douglas Dakota transport aircraft coming in to land; a sign by the runway reads 'This is a bithess strip - No lockwheel turns'. Dakota taxiing. Mansergh disemplanes. Chatting with various officers. Departing by car with Major-General R C O Hedley, commander 26th Indian Division. Arriving to inspect 2nd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment.
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)
Pickering, W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mansergh, Eric Carden Robert (person)
Hedley, Robert Cecil Osbourne (person)
Allied Forces Netherlands East Indies (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 26th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 7th Rajput Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Medan, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
