Title:FIRST TRAIN OF RELEASED INTERNEES ARRIVES AT BATAVIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 585
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At Manggarai railway station in Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), a trainload of freed European and Eurasian internees arrives from central Java, with a guard provided by the independent Indonesian Army.
Description: A guard of Indonesian soldiers, notably armed with British-supplied Lee-Enfield No.4 rifles. Freed internees lean from a train carriage, which is daubed with nationalist graffiti ('merdeka'; 'freedom'). An Indonesian Army officer wearing a Japanese uniform complete with sword. People on the train with an officer of the Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL). Group of officers. Troops board a lorry.
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)
Davis, Desmond (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indonesian Army [NEW TERM] (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)
JFU 612 (EVACUATION OF FIRST INTERNEES BY AIR FROM CENTRAL JAVA TO BATAVIA [Allocated Title])
JFU 596 (EVACUATION OF INTERNEES BY SEA FROM CHERIBON TO BATAVIA [Allocated Title])
