Title:EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS BY LANDING CRAFT AND HMS BULOLO FROM SURABAYA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JIN 142
Other titles:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: With the security situation in Surabaya (Sourabaya/Soerabaja), Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) deteriorating, Dutch and Eurasian civilians are evacuated by the Royal Navy to Singapore.
Description: Seen from the ramp of Landing Ship Tank LST 370; civilian women and children approach the ship. In the background the wreckage of Surabaya docks can be seen. Alternative angles of civilians climbing the bow ramp into the ship. Ship interior with evacuees on a deck lift which rises slowly; a small object is thrown to a naval officer on the lift. Various shots of women and children on deck. View over the deck from the forecastle; children run around. With the LST now underway, a group of children wave to a landing craft (carrying troops?) passing in the opposite direction. Civilians on deck, probably during the transfer to the assault ship HMS Bulolo. On deck around Bulolo’s aft superstructure, children play on improvised swings. Two sailors push two little girls on a swing. Two naval officers watch some children play on a see-saw on deck. A group of boys play in a paddling pool made from a collapsible water tank (?). A woman, in silhouette, waves to another vessel. Women and children looking out. Silhouetted civilians foreground and a Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the background as Bulolo reaches Singapore. Passing the aircraft carrier.
Alternative Title:INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Irvine (Pilot Officer)Cameraman with Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, BULOLO (HMS), headquarters ship (regiment/service)
Keywords: Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Singapore (geography)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
Surabaya 1945, Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
