His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke's Birthday celebrations, Kuching & scenes in 9 Division released POW camp & visit of Lady Mountbatten to 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station.

Accession Number F07372
Collection type Film
Measurement 3 min 38 sec
Object type Actuality footage
Physical description 35mm/b&w/silent
Maker Rainsford, Keith Carr
Place made Borneo: Sarawak, Kuching
Date made 26 September 1945-3 October 1945
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

March past of Kuching Force and twenty one gun salute for the Rajah of Sarawak's birthday. Activities at 9 Division released POW and Internee camp, Labuan Island. Medical examinations at 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station (CCS). Also identified: 437351 (SX3295) Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick DSO ED, Commander Kuching Force, takes the salute; SX16713 Trooper Norman Sinclair Hyde, 2/9 Australian Armoured Regiment, directing traffic; Major R Abbey-Singh, Aide-de-camp, talking to Group Captain Hill, RAF, medical officer; VX61802 (V4201) Private Charles James Meredith, 13 Australian General Hospital, being drawn by NX191007 Lieutenant Edward Albert Douglas Watson, official war artist, Military History Section; VX89066 Sister Clarice Freda Murie assisted by NX924 Private Ronald Manning; NX65739 Private Frederick Francis Brightfield; TX6010 Captain Winifred Woolnough, Sister-in-charge CCS; NX44128 Sapper Eric Frederick Stokes, looking at souvenir postcards of POW camp; VX133203 Captain Philip Richard Neville Sutton, Dental officer attending to patient Sergeant T Monis, Royal Army Service Corps, a recovered POW.

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