Title:FOOD SUPPLIES ARRIVE IN JAVA: UNLOADING SUPPLIES AT BATAVIA DOCKS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 389
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The American merchantman SS Canton Victory laden with foodstuffs and en route to New Guinea is diverted to Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Description: View taken from the ship: a file of Japanese officers, some carrying swords, walk along the quayside. Looking down on Javanese stevedores at work piling sacks onto a trolley. A cargo net is lowered down. An empty net is lowered into the hold. View into the hold still full of sacks. Barge with tug alongside. A cargo net is emptied into the barge. A sign on the ship reads 'SS Canton Victory/Built for US Maritime Commission/Hull no. V-765/By Permanente Metals Corporation/Richmond California July 1945'. An empty net is swung across deck. View of a cable drum unwinding. Man directing the crane operator with hand signals. Looking into the hold through a haze of flour dust. Net lowered towards the dockside. A cart is taken to a warehouse. A (civilian?) man in pith helmet wearing an armband marked 'RAPWI'.
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)
MacTavish, DuncanDuncan MacTavish, service number 378125, sergeant cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, later promoted 2nd Lieutenant 6 September 1945 (see Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 April 1947). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Merchant Navy, CANTON VICTORY (SS), freighter (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)
Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees 1945, Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event)
Empire & Commonwealth (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
