Rajah's Palace at Kuching

Accession Number F07332
Collection type Film
Measurement 1 min 55 sec
Object type Actuality footage
Physical description 35mm/b&w/silent
Maker Rainsford, Keith Carr
Place made Borneo: Sarawak, Kuching
Date made 17 September 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

Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Views of the Astana (native for Rajah's Palace) situated on the north bank of the Sarawak River. The Palace was used by General Yanamura as Japanese headquarters, Sarawak, and is now Kuching Relief Force HQ. 437351 (SX3295) Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick DSO ED, Commander, Royal Artillery, 9th Australian Division and 5905009 (58000, WX174, WX700176) Major Thomas Angelo Rodriquez MC Brigade Major, leaving the front entrance. Formerly this Palace was the residence of Rajah Vyner Brooke. Interior lounge of the palace. View of the palace from across the river.Street scen in Kuching. Bugler blows quater warning for lunch. Clock in the square has stopped. Japanese guard on duty at the airstrip. Road to the Cemetery at the Prisoner of War (POW) camp, Kuching. Demonstraion of the burial of a POW. As coffins were scare, the body was taken to the grave ina coffin, dropped as shown and the coffin reused time and time again. Pan left to right of the grave yard where six hiundred prisoners were buried.

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