Title:BRITISH TROOPS ARRIVE IN BATAVIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 386
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The first British troops arrive in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: Brief close-up of a grinning man. Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) 217 berthing. Soldiers of 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders stepping onto the quayside. Two sailors attending to a mooring line. Sailors on the bow of LCI(L) 136 hauling on a mooring rope. Troops marching along the quayside. More men coming ashore from another LCI(L). Men carrying kitbags. Kitbags piled up. Kitbags unloaded from landing craft.
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)
Hewit, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies (geography)
Allied Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
Empire & Commonwealth (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
