Title:SURRENDER OF JAPANESE TROOPS ON THE BANKS OF THE SITTANG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 351
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Japanese troops, probably of 53rd Division, 33rd Army, surrender their arms and equipment to men of 1st Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles (63rd Brigade, 17th Indian Division) on the banks of the River Sittang near Pegu, Burma.
Description: Japanese personnel seen wading across a flooded stream or river. A file of Japanese troops cross a railway bridge carrying a variety of arms and stores. Reverse angle shows the Japanese troops walking along the railway bridge with armed Gurkha troops lining their route. Japanese personnel wading across the stream. Troops enter a hut to deposit their equipment. Surrendered Japanese soldiers on an embankment by paddy fields. Japanese soldiers picking up ammunition crates and carrying them away on their shoulders; local Burmese civilians pass by. Japanese soldiers carrying shells. A Japanese soldier, wearing little more than a loincloth and carrying a bundle of clothing, crosses a paddy field with a number of swords on his shoulder. Section of footage, badly out of focus, showing Japanese (officers?) making a list. Japanese troops carrying shells. A long line of Japanese troops, still wearing their personal equipment and led by an officer who still has his sword, are led to a Ramp Cargo Lighter on the River Sittang. They board the lighter for transit across the river. On the (west?) bank of the Sittang the troops leave the lighter and board a train. The train is composed of a number of flatcars with a small shunter.
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)
Higgins, K G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 10th Gurkha Rifles, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Army, 33rd Army (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Army, 53rd Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sittang (River), Burma (geography)
Pegu, Burma (geography)
Surrender of Japanese Forces 1945, Burma, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
