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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221180-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1942
Country: Malaya,Singapore
Location:
TC Begins: 13:10:17
TC Ends: 13:18:48
Duration: 00:08:31
WWII - Singapore & Malaya: British Troops Review Malay Troops; Navy Base; British Officers (ca 1942) British naval troops marching in white uniforms of light shirt & shorts; leading contingent of Malayan troops in similar uniform. Drilling w/ rifles. Out of military base. 13:11:28 CU of British officer talking to troops at parade rest along side road. Followed by another officer reviewing them. Hats say HMS ? CU sign: H.M. Naval Base, No Entry Except By Permit... Troops march back into base. 13:12:28 Naval ship in dry dock. Native setting rivets in bow. Various views of ship & workers. Malay troops march aboard ship w/ duffle bags, push away from dock. 13:14:17 View across harbor through barbed wire. Car w/ British flag pulls up, British family into post; Navy officer out & into car. More British officers arrive. Meeting around table w/ map on it, British AF, Navy & Army officers talking. CU Percival. Pre-WW2British Maneuvers; Southeast Asia; Colonialism; Oriental; Air Marshal Brooke-Popham; Percival;