LADY MOUNTBATTEN VISITS HOSPITALS AT HYDERABAD AND BOMBAY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LADY MOUNTBATTEN VISITS HOSPITALS AT HYDERABAD AND BOMBAY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JIN 7
  • Other titles: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of Lord Louis Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command) visits hospitals and medical facilities in Hyderabad and Bombay (Mumbai), India.
  • Description: An RAF Douglas Dakota transport aircraft, serial FL510 'Sister Ann' approaches camera. Lady Mountbatten steps down and is greeted by Arthur Lothian, British Resident Minister of Hyderabad, and Major-General Rankin (Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India). Lady Mountbatten leaving the aerodrome. The crew of the Dakota pose by their aircraft. Close-up of the name 'Sister Ann' and the 'Phoenix' insignia of the Supreme Allied Commander on the aircraft's nose. Lady Mountbatten gets out of her staff car and enters a hospital. The group poses on the hospital steps before leaving to visit another hospital. Lady Mountbatten arrives at a second hospital and meets patients. Close-up of a patient with photographs of his two children hanging above his bed. Lady Mountbatten meets more patients. Close-up of a patient knitting. Lady Mountbatten meets Indian patients wearing striped hospital pajamas. Nurses wave as Lady Mountbatten's car leaves the nurses' quarters. At a convalescent centre Lady Mountbatten looks at items of kit including a patient's boot. Convalescent patients play basketball. Interior canteen; a man paints a decorative mural on a wall. At another hospital Lady Mountabatten arrives and walks through the grounds before meeting British patients. She meets the matron. She talks to Major-General Rankin. At another hospital Lady Mountbatten examines knitting work done by the patients. She talks to a patient. She visits another hospital and is received. She speaks to an Indian patient (an officer). Shot of a ceiling fan, consisting of large (canvas?) panels that sway back and forth on a pulley system. Meeting patients. A patient doing embroidery. Meeting nurses; some of them are in uniform and others in civilian dress. Mountbatten signs her name on a corner of a large piece of cloth. She signs an autograph for an Indian nurse. She poses for a group photo. Interior hospital ward; she meets Indian patients in pajamas. She visits a Women's Voluntary Service centre. At RAF Secunderabad she meets Group Captain Park. She boards 'Sister Ann'. Aircraft airborne. At Bombay she arrives at an Indian Military Hospital. (Cumballa Hill?). She meets Indian Red Cross staff at their quarters at the Prince of Wales Museum. A convoy of ambulances; one is marked 'Donated by Habib and Sons'. She is received by Admiral Bevir, senior officer Royal Navy Establishments India. Bevir speaking. Mountbatten addressing naval officers. Speaking with Indian women. A group of British and Indian nurses. Mountbatten addressing a group with American officers amongst them. Meeting staff at Colaba military hospital. Interior shots. Mountbatten leaving a building and descending stairs (with Sir John and Lady Colville?). She gives an address. Views of her audience of nurses. Party at Government House. Chatting with a woman of the American Red Cross. Sir John Colville with Indian Red Cross workers.
  • Alternative Title: INDIAN ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: JIN 7
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-03
  • Production Country: India
  • Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor) Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company) Khopkar, A M (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mountbatten, Edwina (Countess) (person) St John Ambulance (regiment/service) Women's Voluntary Service (regiment/service) South East Asia Command (regiment/service) Indian Red Cross (regiment/service) American Red Cross (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Secunderabad, Central India, India (geography) Bombay, West India, India (geography) Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Home Front, India, Second World War (event) British Army 1939-1945 (theme) Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 924 ft; Running time: 11 mins
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    JIN 7

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