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Royal Indian Naval Dockyards & Gurkha Troops Shipping Out

Reel Number: 221229-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: India

Location: India

TC Begins: 17:25:25

TC Ends: 17:33:08

Duration: 00:07:43

Royal Indian Naval Dockyards & Gurkha Troops Shipping Out Troops up gangway w/ ammunition boxes onto ship; others carrying duffle bags on shoulders past camera. Five British officers talking on dock 17:26:27 Indian (?) troops off train, LS troops boarding ship at dock; crane hoisting flour; milling about. 17:27:02 Train w/ freight & passenger cars into dock area. Troops out. Army trucks parked in line. Troops march away from camera along dock w/ cranes in background. 17:27:45 Army trucks hoised aboard ship; LS of ship in harbor seen over passenger train moving past. Crane raising hospital railroad car onto ship. Truck & goods hoisted aboard in nets. Camouflaged trucks loaded into ship’s hold. African troops watching loading. Large sing: Wanted-First on Disembarkation. African (?) troops board ship up gangway past camera. 17:31:40 Guard w/ bayonet at dock, ship slowly moving away. Black African troops wving, cheering. Oriental troops at rail. 17:32:37 Ship seen leaving harbor, small boats back to dock. WWII Asia - Military Preparations; English Colonialism; British Empire Soldiers;

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