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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]
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)
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])