14TH ARMY TYPES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: 14TH ARMY TYPES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6190
  • Other titles: COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Amateur film showing close-ups of various British soldiers in Burma and a some Burmese.
  • Description: The first soldier wears a beret with metal cap badge, his shoulder flash is of two (white) crossed keys on a black background, the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division. The next soldier wears a bush hat and has a red on his epilet, his shoulder flash is not visible. The next has a shoulder flash of a black cat with arched back and tail raised, on a khaki background (17th Indian Division). The next two soldiers wear bush hats with a rectangular badge depicting a white and red circle linked, 36th Infantry Division. No badges are visible on the next soldier. A close-up of a soldier wearing a beret with a gold (metal) crest of a laurel with a central figure behind a cross (the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders). The next soldier wears a bush hat and has a shoulder flash of a red spot on a black background (5th Indian Division). The next soldier has a red rectangular shoulder flash but the whole badge is not visible. The next is wearing a bush hat and has a shoulder flash showing a golden chinthe (the Chindits). On his epaulette is R. SIGS. (Royal Signal Corps). Four Burmese tribesmen?, two with spears, one with his hair tied in a knot in the front of his turban. Close-up of a Burmese man in military unform with his hair tied in a knot at the front of his turban. Close-up of two Bumese soldiers. Close-up of a Burmese officer.
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
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  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Hodgkinson, Frank Outram (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), 1st Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1st Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Corps of Signals (regiment/service) Indian Army, 17th Indian Division (regiment/service) British Army, 36th Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 5th Indian Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, 3rd Indian Division (Chindits) (regiment/service)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings. Date: stock date on Kodachrome is 1943 Technical: film marked "original"
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 6190

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