Title:LORRIED INFANTRY OF 17TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 115
Other titles:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: An ambiguous piece of undocumented rushes film, probably showing infantry of 17th Indian Division in southern Burma during the early stages of the campaign following the Japanese invasion, and a brief view of 18-pounder field guns (possibly Burma Auxiliary Force) being fired.
Description: Gurkha troops in field gear passing. By a tree a number of medical chests, with two men sitting nearby and one man, back to camera, looking in a chest. Troops gathered around a tree. Indian troops on the march. Wide shot of terrain showing fields, hedgerows and trees. Indian troops filling canvas belts for a Vickers gun with 0.303-inch cartridges. Wide shot with double-line railway track in the foreground (a river beyond with pagodas on the bank?). Lorries passing carrying troops (marked with a lightning bolt in a circle?) A motorcyclist speaks to a British officer. Mule carts, mules and men on foot passing. The British troops are wearing topis. A cup of tea is passed to an Indian soldier on horseback. Troops gathered around a tree (the same as seen earlier?); pan to waiting lorries. Lorry passing; camera pans to follow and a parked station wagon is clearly marked with a lightning bolt. Morris lorry passing. Indian troops walking down a railway embankment; a footbridge is behind and wagons can be seen below. Indian troops boarding a lorry. Indian troops passing on foot and using a footbridge over the railway line. More of boarding lorry and lorries moving off. Brief shot looking down railway embankment with a jumble of stores piled beside some wagons. On an open field a battery of 18-pounder field guns firing (in training or in action?); the crews are wearing topis.
Alternative Title:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
