17TH DIVISION'S DRIVE ON RANGOON - PRIESTS IN ACTION AND RECOVERED ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT PEGU [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: 17TH DIVISION'S DRIVE ON RANGOON - PRIESTS IN ACTION AND RECOVERED ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT PEGU [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 243
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Film showing a battery of Priest 105mm self-propelled (SP) guns in action at Payagale, and Allied prisoners of war, freed from Rangoon jail, seen after having regained Allied lines at Pegu (Bago), Burma.
  • Description: A 105mm SP Gun, Priest (M7 in US service) being reloaded. A gunner passes ammunition to another standing in the crew compartment. This crew probably of 18th (Self-Propelled) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (part of 14th Army's artillery detached to IV Corps). The vehicle is named 'Docking'. A battery of Priests firing with 'Docking' nearest camera. Vehicles on the move. Priest battery firing in dusty conditions. Two Sherman medium tanks of 255th Indian Tank Brigade pass camera; a wooden building burns in the background. Lance Corporal Watson of 9th Battalion, the Border Regiment, escorts a blindfolded Japanese prisoner. Various shots of Allied prisoners of war, both British and American, posing for the camera. Allied servicemen look a Japanese prisoner of war (seen earlier?) confined in a small cell made of wood and wire.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: JFU 243
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-04-29
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company) Wishart, Basil Ferguson1919-09-191997-02-11Sergeant cameraman, No 9 Army Film and Photo Unit, later editor of the Shetland Times. Obituary see Herald Scotland, 13 February 1997. (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 17th Indian Division (regiment/service) British Army, Border Regiment, 9th Battalion (regiment/service) Indian Army, 255th Indian Tank Brigade (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, 18th (Self-Propelled) Field Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Payagale, Burma (geography) Pegu, Burma (geography) Rangoon Road 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment (event) Prisoners of War, Far East 1939-1945 (theme) Burma 1942-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 350 ft (approx); Running time: 5 mins (approx)
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    JFU 243

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JIN 66 (FALL OF PEGU TO 17TH INDIAN DIVISION [Allocated Title]) ABY 103 (ARRIVAL OF RELEASED PRISONERS OF WAR AT CALCUTTA [Allocated Title]) JFU 223 (ENTRY TO KYAUKTAN AND LIBERATED ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT RANGOON JAIL [Allocated Title]) JFU 246 (BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR LEAVE RANGOON [Allocated Title])
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