81 MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL AT SELETAR, SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
- Title: 81 MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL AT SELETAR, SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: ABY 186
- Other titles: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: At the RAF's 81 Mobile Field Hospital, operating at Seletar in Singapore, both British servicemen and Japanese prisoners of war receive medical treatment.
- Description: A British nurse escorts a British serviceman through the grounds of the hospital. Camera pans with them as they pass and shows a Japanese man on crutches with a Japanese nurse. A ward with Japanese servicemen, some of them heavily bandaged or in plaster. A Japanese medical officer (MO) walks through the ward followed by an RAF MO, two white nurses and a Japanese nurse. A Japanese soldier with his leg in traction. Exterior hospital grounds; a lorry arrives and interned Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) unload large crates containing medical supplies. Close-ups of the POWs at work and of the markings on the crates. Interior operating theatre; a surgical team, apparently all Japanese, at work on a patient. A British nurses' staff room; the nurses chat over tea. Two get up and leave. Exterior hospital; two men walk past camera and get into a jeep. The jeep arrives at a dockyard and two nurses climb a gangway to a supply ship carrying material for the Mobile Field Hospital. A naval officer shows the nurses the hold which is apparently full of medical supplies. Camera pans to the dockside. Jeep driving towards camera. Jeep parks in front of hospital and the nurses get out.
- Alternative Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: ABY 186
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1945-11-26
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Air Ministry, Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (Production company) Tookey, C E W () Tookey, C E W (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, 81 Mobile Field Hospital (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
- Keywords: Seletar, Singapore (geography) Liberation of Singapore Island 1945, Malaya, Second World War (event) Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Singapore, Second World War (event)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 636 ft; Running time: 8 minutes
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