Title:ACTION AT KABO WEIR IN CENTRAL BURMA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:FUB 38
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: British troops, probably of 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, take up positions at Kabo Weir on the Mu River in Burma and mount a patrol.
Description: Men shelter behind a brick wall next to a sluice gate at Kabo Weir. Sergeant with binoculars. View across the canal. Men dug in on an earth bank. Close-up Bren gunner. Signaller. Soft focus; men moving up with food (?). Universal carrier passes. View of the weir. Mortar impacts on the far bank. Bren carrier moving. Young British soldier shaving. Emplacing a Vickers machine gun. Patrol moving off. Men washing in the Ye-U canal. Men on patrol. Signaller. passing roadside shrine. Patrol crosses a field; a Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber can be seen above. Walking across a river; stretcher bearers follow. A signal line is laid out.
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)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 2nd Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Mu (River), Burma (geography)
Kabo Weir, Burma (geography)
Advance to the Irrawaddy 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
