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1945 Lord and Lady Mountbatten visit released Allied POWs in Singapore
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0:20Now PlayingDate: 5th November 1945
Location: Singapore
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SINGAPORE: Unknown:
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LECLERC GENERAL (FRENCH) Arriving at Saigon to take over the Military Government there from the British.
FLAGS. Japanese 94th. Div. forced to march past, & salute the Union Jack, at their surrender at Sungei Patani.
FRANCE MILITARY. French troops arriving in Saigon. Gen. Leclerc arriving by plane to take over Military Government from British.
Indo-Chinese. (French) (Indo-China.) French troops arriving in Saigon. French population cheering. Gen. LeClerc arriving at Saigon by plane, to take over Military Government from the British.
JAPAN. MILITARY. The 94th. Div. surrenders at Sungei Patani, to Maj.Gen.Woods. 14 hundred Officers hand over their swords. Whole parade march past, & salute the Union Jack, in the pouring rain.
MALAYA. Japanese 94th. Div. surrender at Sungei Patani, Malaya.
MOUNTBATTEN. LORD LOUIS & LADY And Lady. Talking to freed P.O.W.s. at Singapore.
PRISONERS OF WAR. Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten visit freed Allied P.O.Ws at Singapore.
PRISONERS OF WAR. Japanese at Sungei Patani surrender officially, by, handing over their swords (the officers), to Gen. Woods. Whole Parade march past the Union Jack, in pouring rain.
SINGAPORE. Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten visit Allied P.O.W.s.at Singapore.
SOEKARNO. Dr. (Self styled President of the Indonesian Movement, in Java). w. his Cabinet.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Louis Mountbatten), Royalty
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Imperial Japan, occupation, prison, capture, custody, control, freed, released, POW, POWs, prisoner of war, World War II, Second World War, WWII, liberation, war, post-war, postwar
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