Title:VICTORY CELEBRATIONS IN HONG KONG AND RETURN HOME FROM JAPANESE INTERNMENT [Allocated title]
Film Number:MGH 6865
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY BERTRAM WALTER BRADBURY [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film with titles shot by Bertram Walter Bradbury, Chairman of the Dairy Farm and Cold Storage Company, after his release from Japanese internment at Stanley camp in Hong Kong, records the Victory Parade, passage to Fremantle (Australia) on HMHS Gerusalemme, then to Sydney on HMS Berwick, first sight in six years of his family and four year old grandson John Fowler in Sydney, and return back to Hong Kong on SS Empire Gunfleet.
Description: "Victory Day and Parade, Hong Kong, Sept 1945. Admiral Harcourt and Lady Mountbatten" Colour. Unveiling ceremony at Cenotaph on Hong Kong waterfront precedes parade past saluting base occupied by Lady Mountbatten, Admiral Harcourt and other senior British and Nationalist Chinese service figures. Flypast overhead by squadron of twelve planes. Nationalist Chinese youths celebrate end of Japansese occupation, walking with large portrait of their leader Chiang Kai-Shek, and displaying traditional Chinese masks. "Following internment at Stanley, Hong Kong, to Fremantle. RNHS Gerusalemme 1945". Black and white. Man in suit and white shirt stands in busy street (more likely Perth than Fremantle). Two Australian Army nurses stand beside Army ambulance, presumably for transporting former internees. White painted hospital ship (Gerusalemme) at dockside, also HMS Berwick. "Fremantle to Sydney HMS Berwick. Meeting family after 6 years. 1945". Mr Bradbury's family members, including his young grandson John, wait on the Sydney quayside, John held in arms of father's best friend Vic Bond and waving to his grandfather the cameraman. Colour of similar scene, with mother Margaret Fowler and grandmother Margaret Bradbury on quayside dressed in blue and wearing characteristically Australian white gloves, while John appears excited by sight of his grandfather. "Scenes around Sydney. Back to Hong Kong by SS Empire Gunfleet. 1945." Family on balcony of flat. Crowded Bondi beach. Views of Sydney Harbour Bridge, Botanical Gardens and Sydney street scene. "Leaving Australia. SS Gunfleet. 100 cattle on board for the DFC Coy [Dairy Farm and Cold Storage Company]" Final farewell scenes on quayside. On board ship, passengers play with young heifers. Street scenes with rickshaws after arrival back in Hong Kong.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY BERTRAM WALTER BRADBURY [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:MGH 6865
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Bradbury, Bertram Walter (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person)
Chiang Kai-shek (person)
