DeptName
Documents

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178

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89/13/1

ItemName
Private Papers of W H Thompson

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts memoir (276pp), written in 1987, of his background, education and service in the ranks, the 265 Battery and HQ, 67 (South Midland) Field Brigade, RA (TA), 1937 - 1939, and as a Warrant Officer, the 119 Field Regiment RA (TA), 1939 - 1942, recording his TA experiences of Army life including his enlistment, the poor pay, lack of equipment and funds, the Annual Camps and training, and mobilisation, 1939; his Emergency Commission, November 1942; service in the United Kingdom, 1942 - 1944, commenting on his unacceptability socially to his CO as a 'temporary gentleman'; in the East African Artillery, Kenya, 1944 - 1946, and the 307 (East Africa) Training and Depot Regiment, Kenya, 1946 - 1947, including the sea journey to Kenya, 1944, and the training and Army life there; Kenya Government Service, October 1947 - June 1948, and the Colonial Administrative Service, Kenya, July 1948 - September 1963, mentioning colonial rule, African society and politics, the origins, methods and organisation of the Mau-Mau and the Government's counter-measures, the Hola Affair, mid 1959 - March 1960, Idi Amin, Sir Evelyn Baring, General Kago, Jomo Kenyatta, and Tom Mboya; Colonial Secretary, Falkland Islands, December 1963 - May 1969, including the disputes with Argentina; Acting Administrator, British Virgin Islands, May - July 1969; HM Commissioner in Anguilla, July 1969 - ?July 1971, describing the revolution and British reoccupation; Governor of Montserrat, July 1971 - ?July 1974 and his retirement.

MakerName
Thompson

Forenames
W H

Style
Major

RelatedIWMItems
See also SR (10112/8)

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

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23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

IDNO
305

OtherNumber
90/20/1

ItemName
Private Papers of J K Windeatt

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Two interesting ms diaries (215pp), December 1939 - October 1946, and a ts transcript (176pp) with notes and maps added in 1985, recording his journey home from India, December 1939, and his service as Brigade Major in the 36th Brigade (78th Division), North Africa, Sicily and Italy, February 1943 - March 1944; as 2nd in command of the 5th Battalion The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (36th Brigade, 78th Division), Italy and Egypt, March - October 1944; as OC 2nd Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (3rd Brigade, 1st Division), Italy, Palestine and Syria, October 1944 - October 1946; and GSO2, 1st Division, Tripoli, North Africa, and GSO1, Army Liaison, RAF Habbaniya, Iraq, planning to retake the Abadan oilfields, Iran, April - August 1951; including the Battles of Longstop Hill, Tunisia, April 1943, Centuripe, Sicily, August 1943, and Cassino, Italy, March - May 1944; describing living conditions, entertainment, morale, peace keeping in Palestine and Syria, February 1945 - October 1946, staff work, and mentioning Generals K A N Anderson, Sir Oliver Leese, B L Montgomery, C G G Nicholson, Brigadier N Howlett, and Major J T M Anderson VC. Also included is an undated ts note (7pp) on Mau-Mau Oath Ceremonies and a useful ts account (107pp, written September 1962) of counter insurgency operations by the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment against the Mau-Mau, Kenya, April 1953 - February 1955, commenting on the Mau-Mau movement, operations, administration, air support, hostile press, casualties, awards, the Kenya Police, the Kikuyu Guard, and well-known personalities.

MakerName
Windeatt

Forenames
J K

Honours
OBE

Style
Lieutenant Colonel

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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DeptName
Documents

IDNO
4373

OtherNumber
82/14/1

ItemName
Private Papers of I J N Jukes

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts memoir (13pp) of his service as a naval secretary in the Imperial Secretariat at New Delhi, 1946 - 1947, serving first as secretary to the Chief of Staff, Royal Indian Navy, and then in the Secretariat of the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, describing the last days of the British military administration of India.

MakerName
Jukes

Forenames
I J N

Honours
RN

Style
Lieutenant

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
4896

OtherNumber
96/17/1

ItemName
Private Papers of J Peddie

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Photocopy of a well-written ts account (272pp), 1992, describing his service as a rifleman with the 5th (City of London) Battalion London Rifle Brigade TA (March 1936 - December 1939); as a private with the 2nd Battalion London Scottish Regiment in southern England (January - December 1940); at Officer Training School, Mhow, India (February - July 1941); as a subaltern with the 8th Light Infantry, Indian Army on the North West Frontier (July - October 1941); and finally with the 7/14th Punjab Regiment from October 1941 to February 1947 (in North East Assam until February 1942; with the 1st Indian Infantry Brigade (23rd Indian Infantry Division) on the North West Frontier until April 1942 and around Manipur until September 1942; as part of the 16th Indian Infantry Brigade in northern Assam, April - July 1943, in the Lushai Hills and the Manipur Gorge from July 1943 [from March 1944 as part of the 'Lushai Brigade'] to December 1944; in support of 7th Indian Division and IV Corps' crossing of the Irrawaddy until March 1945; as 5th Indian Divisional HQ Battalion at Monywa until July 1945; with the Nowshera Brigade on the North West Frontier until August 1945 and, until February 1947, largely at Regimental HQ, Ferozepore, on the Punjab, processing ex-prisoners of war and ex-Indian National Army members, organising disbandment and resettlement. The account amply records his feelings and views on pre-war political developments, the Territorial Army (1936 - 1939), the death of HM King George V, the outbreak of war, Dunkirk (and faith in victory), Indian Army life, demobilisation and Indian social unrest in 1945 - 1946, the memoirs of INA members, and withdrawal from India.

MakerName
Peddie

Forenames
J

Honours
OBE MC

Style
Lieutenant Colonel

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
5394

OtherNumber
Misc 134 (2084)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Ts carbon copy account (7pp), written ca April 1954 in fractured English by a member of the Mau-Mau describing operations against the Security Forces, natives opposed to the movement and Europeans in the forest area of locations 1 and 2, Kenya, between April 1953 and March 1954, together with a cyclostyled ts copy of a report (45pp), October 1957, edited by J Pinney, District Commissioner of Fort Hall District, describing fighting in his area from the beginnings of Mau-Mau in 1947 and 1955, its atrocities, the establishment of a resistance force (principally the Kikuyu Guard), its operations in tracking down and fighting the rebels, and recruitment and morale on both sides.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
6883

OtherNumber
97/36/1

ItemName
Private Papers of P Head

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Photocopy of a ts memoir (21pp) concerning his service in Malaya during the period 1953 - 1955 with 'O' Troop, 1st Singapore Regiment RA, giving good details of the unit's preparations, weaponry and equipment, initial deployment into Johore, and its activities in support of operations against the Communist insurgents, with observations on the problems encountered by the unit in jungle conditions and on the Malayan troops serving in it.

MakerName
Head

Forenames
P

Style
Captain

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
8231

OtherNumber
99/7/1

ItemName
Private Papers of E J Morris

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Wordprocessor memoir (68pp) covering his flying training, latterly at RAF Netheravon and with the Parachute Test Flight at RAF Henlow (1937 - 1939), his service as a pilot with No 79 (Fighter) Squadron RAF at RAF Biggin Hill and RAF Manston, flying Hurricanes, from April 1939 until he was wounded on 31 August 1940 during the Battle of Britain, with No 238 Squadron on home defence duties (December 1940 - May 1941), his passage out to the Middle East on the aircraft carrier HMS VICTORIOUS (May - June 1941) and service with No 274 Squadron, flying Hurricanes, in the Western Desert (June - August 1941), his service with the Desert Air Force as commanding officer of No 250 Squadron, flying Tomahawks and later Kittyhawks (September 1941 - April 1942), as Group Training Instructor Fighters (April - late 1942), as Air Adviser to the 2nd New Zealand Division during the advance on Tripoli (? January 1943) and as Station Commander, Castel Benito (? January - April 1943), his appointments as Chief Instructor of No 71 OTU in the Sudan and at RAF Ismailia in Egypt (June - late 1943), as Wing Leader in 251 Wing, flying Spitfires and based in Corsica and the South of France, including operations over northern Italy, Elba and in support of Operation Dragoon, and as Wing Commander Plans at an Anglo-American HQ in Italy directing operations of the American TAF (September 1944 - May 1945), and his post-war service, most notably at the RAF Staff College (1945 - 1946), in staff appointments in Germany (1947 - 1949), on No 4 Flying College course (1953), on attachment to the USAF proving ground at Eglin Air Force Base, USA (1954 - 1955), as Station Commander, RAF Wattisham, No 11 Group's master airfield (1958 - 1960), in staff appointments at HQ Fighter Command and the Air Ministry (1960 - 1964); as Chief of Staff at the tri-service HQ Middle East Command in Aden during the Radfan operation and Rhodesia's declaration of independence (1964 - 1966) and as AOC Air Cadets in the United Kingdom (1966 - 1968). The memoir includes interesting assessments of several senior officers under whom he served, particularly Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, Air Vice-Marshal R Collishaw, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham and General Sir Charles Harington.

MakerName
Morris

Forenames
E J

Honours
CB CBE DSO DFC

Style
Air Commodore

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

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Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
10792

OtherNumber
PP/MCR/178

ItemName
Private Papers of L Blackie

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
390 ms letters home and two poems (6pp) covering his training in the United Kingdom with the 54th and 61st Training Regiments Royal Armoured Corps, June 1944 - July 1945; his voyage to India; his service as a trooper with the 43rd Battalion (later 2/43rd) Royal Tank Regiment in India, August 1945 - September 1947, and the voyage home in the troopship SCYTHIA, including descriptions and criticisms of many aspects of Army life, with particular reference to conditions in and the fighting performance of British tanks and his unit's Canal Defence light exercises; as well as comments about India at the time of partition, the racial tension in the country, Indian Army strikes and the poor relations between British civilians and troops and with the natives; there are also general criticisms of the Labour government in Britain and specific observations on the Greek Civil War, the Atomic bomb, religion, GI Brides, women and marriage.

MakerName
Blackie

Forenames
L

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9797

ProductionDate
11/Jun/1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Spearman, William J xxx
Templer, Gerald W R

IndexPlaces
MY
MY & Kuala Kangsar
MY & Dusuntua
MY & Chamek

IndexUnits
MY.O & Police, Malayan Special Constabulary

ShortSummary
British civilian served with Special Police Constabulary in Malaya 1948-1959

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background: immediate post war occupations; volunteering for service in Malaya. Recollections of period with Malayan Special Constabulary in Malaya, 1948-1959: description of Kuala Kangsa; background to Emergency in Malaya; role of Special Constabulary; speaking the Malay language; recruiting volunteers for police force; contrasts between different Malayan peoples. REEL 2 Continues: defending Chendorah Dam from guerrillas, late 1948; description of guerrilla camps in Kuala Kangsa area; pressure on civilians to provide supplies for guerrillas; expertise of guerrillas in jungle; relationship between Chinese 'squatters' and guerrillas; methods of communicating with Chinese civilians; recollections of Chinese Nationalist guerrillas, Kuomintang, in Malaya; description of living and operating in jungle; planning attack on guerrilla camp. REEL 3 Continues: account of attack on guerrilla camp, Kuala Kangsar, Winter 1948; outcome of attack; description of finger printing dead guerrillas; presenting guerrilla skull to ex- comrade; coping with jungle wildlife, leeches; medical problems; finger printing civilian population for registration purposes; description of regulation 17c for deportation of unregistered Chinese; civilian methods of smuggling food to guerrillas; description of Briggs Plan. REEL 4 Continues: guerrilla attempts to evade Briggs Plan; anti guerrilla methods in Chamek village, early 1950s; account of battle with guerrillas, Chamek, 5/1950; ambush of rubber planter, Chamek, 5/1950; impact of arrival of Sir Gerald Templer; description of Operational Helicopter Course, Dusuntua; contact with aboriginal people, Sakai; resettling aboriginals at Fort Iskander. REEL 5 Continues: description of Sakai methods of living in jungle; Sakai agricultural techniques; impact of Emergency on Sakai culture; navigating in jungle; description of boat patrols; encounter with guerrilla boat on lake, early 1954; description of Sakai traditions; recollections of visit of High Commissioner to Fort Iskander. REEL 6 Continues: following guerrillas from Fort Iskander, 1954; account of surrounding and attacking guerrilla camp; building platforms to cross swamp land; using artillery to intimidate guerrillas; attitude towards work of Gurkhas; opinion of SAS superiority in jungle warfare; co-operating with SAS Calvalry unit during battle with guerrillas in jungle. REEL 7 Continues: role of Kings Hussars in Malaya; navigating in jungle; attack on National Service patrol in jungle; parachute drops of supplies; guerrilla that surrendered; question of guerrilla's willingness to betray comrades for money; description of work in Operations Room, Kuala Lumpur, 1956-1959; question of guerrilla atrocities towards civilians; relationship between Sakai and guerrillas; relationship between Gurkhas and guerrillas.

ContextDescription
Service Operations Since 1945: Malaya, 1948-1960

Duration
210

NumberOfParts
7

OtherFormats
Part : 70pp

MakerName
Spearman, William James

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
10135

ProductionDate
4/Mar/1988

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Edgar, Thomas L xxx

IndexPlaces
KE
KE & Kabarnet
KE & Fort Hall
KE & Nyeri
KE & Tambach
KE & Mathera

IndexConcepts
Counter insurgency
Decolonisation

ShortSummary
British civilian worked with Colonial Service in Kenya, 1949-1954

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of period with Overseas Civil service in Kenya, 1949-1954: reasons for going to Kenya; duties in coastal area; murder of police personnel by members of Suk tribe, Kabarnet district, 1949; posting to Kabarnet district, 1950; attitude towards Suk; work with Suk levy force; transfer to Tambach, 1952; outbreak of Mau Mau troubles; attitude towards Kikuyu; outbreak of trouble, Fort Hall; signs of Mau Mau activity; system of oaths; question of atrocities committed by Mau Mau; duties as administrative officer; courtroom procedures.
REEL 2 Continues: courtroom procedures; examples of court cases; declaration of state of emergency; night patrols; origins of Mau Mau; land problem; Kikuyu land tenure; origins of Mau Mau; intelligence received on Mau Mau; formation of home guard; formation of New Villages in Mathera district; Mau Mau fear of bows and arrows; receiving threatening letters from Mau Mau; impact of New Villages.
REEL 3 Continues: question of support for Mau Mau; use of informers; use of missionary facilities by Mau Mau; story of how his clerk gave intelligence to Mau Mau; Mau Mau weaponry; story of how he was ambushed; danger to his home and family; army tactics against Mau Mau; capture of General China; method of getting Mau Mau to surrender; capture of General Simba.
REEL 4 Continues: system of oaths; appearance of General China; Lari massacre; question of Mau Mau victory; system of counter oaths; role of Chiefs in emergency; areas of Mau Mau operations; comparison between Fort Hall and Nyeri districts; role of sons of Kenya settlers; impact of UK parliamentary delegation sent to Kenya; dominance of Kikuyu in Kenya.
REEL 5 Continues: attitude of Mau Mau to Asian population; leaving Nyeri district.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work Since 1945

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
Full : 45pp

MakerName
Edgar, Thomas Leslie

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photo (1957) in file

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
12910

ProductionDate
20/Nov/1992

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Imray, Colin Herbert xxx
Doshan, Muhammad
Jildeh, Abu
Husseini, Haj Amin el
Bey, Abdin
Spicer, Roy
Bamford, <Colonel>
Cohen, Andrew
Beyts, <Brigadier>
Ruck, Bernard
Henderson, Ian
Baring, Evelyn
Erskine, Robert

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Sutton, Surrey
MY
PI
PI & Mount Scopus
PI & Ramleh
PI & Jerusalem
PI & Haifa
PI & Jaffa
PI & Tel Aviv
GC
GC & Accra
GC & Tamale
KE
KE & Nyeri District
KE & Nairobi

IndexUnits
PI.O & Police, Palestine
PI.O & Police, Palestine, Branch Investigation
PI.O & Police, Jerusalem Striking Force
PI.O & Police, District Southern
PI.O & Church, Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
MY.O & Volunteer Corps, Malay States
GC.O & Police
GC.O & Police, Escort
GC.O & Police, General
KE.O & Club, Nanyuki
KE.O & Internment Camp, Manyani
KE.O & District, Nyeri
KE.O & District, Coastal

IndexConcepts
Decolonisation

ShortSummary
British civilian in Malaya, 1928-1931; policeman served with Palestine Police in Palestine, 1932-1935; served as Superintendent of Police on Gold Coast, 1935-1948 and Kenya, 1948-1957

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Sutton, 1909-1928: family; education. Recollections of period as civilian living in Malaya, 1928-1931: initial work with tin firm; work selling cigarettes; character of administration; Chinese apprehension of Japanese penetration; membership of Malay States Volunteer Corps; story of encounter with the General Officer Commanding Malaya over impregnability of Singapore; reasons for leaving Malaya; opinion of time in Malaya. Recollections of period as policeman with Palestine Police in Palestine, 1932-1935: background to joining police in GB, 1932; terms of contract; character of training at police base at Mount Scopus, 1932; posting to Investigation Branch at Ramleh.
REEL 2 Continues: character of Ramleh area; Bedouin raid on village near Ramleh; question of nature of postings to Ramleh; transfer to Jerusalem, 1933; role of Jerusalem Striking Force; occasions when he was on stand-by in Southern District; role attending the arrival of body of King Feisal of Iraq at Haifa; question of British Government's policy on Jewish immigration, 1933; attending anti-immigration demonstration in Jaffa, 10/1933.
REEL 3 Continues: progress of Jaffa riot and how it was brought to end; beach patrol to intercept Jewish immigrants near Tel Aviv; how older Palestinian Policeman let Jewish immigrants proceed; prior recollection of hunt for escaped convict Muhammad Doshan from Ramleh, 1932; how he nearly killed Arab during hunt for Muhammad Doshan; reputation of Abu Jildeh.
REEL 4 Continues: operations against Abu Jildeh, 1933; capture and execution of Abu Jildeh; night patrols in Ramleh; dealing with brawl in Arab café in Ramleh; story of background of Ghanaian who lived as Arab in Ramleh; reputation of previous Turkish administration; meeting with Haj Amin el Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jersusalem; meeting with Zionist Revisionist Jabotinski, 1934.
REEL 5 Continues: memories of Jabotinski; duties dealing with factional fighting between Christian sects at Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem; character of Arab superintendent Abdin Bey; methods used to hunt burglar 'El Masneh'; his comments on Jewish-Arab relations, 1932-1935; question of pro-Arab bias of British administration; obtaining a transfer to Colonial Police force in Gold Coast.
REEL 6 Continues: memories of Roy Spicer Chief of Police in Palestine; character of personnel in Palestine Police; attitude in Palestine Police to the Mandate. Recollections of period as police officer with Gold Coast Police, 1935-1948: arrival, 5/1935; memories of head of police force, Colonel Bamford; character of police force in contrast to Nigeria and Kenya; his colleagues amongst other officers; contrast in police force and that of Palestine; extraneous duties.
REEL 7 Continues: Roy Spicer's attitude to extraneous duties in Palestine; importance of learning court procedure; learning Hausa language; discovery of inadequate police investigation; difference between General Police and Escort Police. Recollections of his role as Police Superintendent in Accra during riots, 28/2/1948: effect of soldering aboard on ex-soldiers of the Gold Coast Regt; effect of news of Indian independence, 1947; influence of Andrew Cohen at the Colonial Office, 1946-1947; rise of Nkrumah, 1947; political effect of swollen shoot disease on cocoa plants.
REEL 8 Continues: how agitators seized on government policy to cut out diseased plants; discontent over prices and control of trade; success of boycott of stores, 1948; characters of Gold Coast Governor, First Secretary and Attorney General, 1948; role of T.R.O. Mangin and Commissioner of Police Ballantyne, 1948; his own role as Police Superintendent in Accra, 1948; relations with head of CID, Franklin; his worries about reliability of General Police and Commissioner of Police Ballantyne's attitude towards Imray's approach; organisation of procession to deliver petition to administration, 28/2/1948.
REEL 9 Continues: contrast in his own and Commissioner of Police Ballantyne's anticipation of trouble, 28/2/1948; how he asked for army to be put at readiness for procession, 28/2/1948; state of tear gas supplies and water hoses; role of ex-soldiers, thugs and alcohol on procession; how procession got out of hand and his attempts to halt it; refusal of police to obey order to open fire; his stopping of crowd with six rifle shots; Commissioner of Police Ballantyne's attitude to his performance; orders for him to go to Government House; arrival of army to stabilise situation; looting and arson of European and Lebanese shops in Accra; how he was relieved of his command of police in Accra; operation of Commission of Enquiry and its results; his reaction to the Escort police's refusal to fire; organisers of the procession.
REEL 10 Continues: attitude of procession organisers to arrangements for procession, 28/2/1948; size and character of procession, 28/2/1948; reasons why procession was not allowed to approach Government House; question of attitude of ex-soldiers who had served aboard and reasons for there discontent. Recollections of period as police officer with Gold Coast Police on the Gold Coast, 1935-1948: opinion of European society; development of his police career; effects of Second World War on Gold Coast; years spent in north of country at Tamale, 1947.
REEL 11 Continues: looking after needs of policemen in Tamale area; arrow attack by Konkombas tribe; status of Gold Coast as model colony; meeting with Nkrumah, 1948; lack of pressure from Africans to take over European police jobs; degree of knowledge about Ashanti tribe; character of Ashanti; his recruitment of Ashanti to Escort Police, 1940-1941; reasons why Ashanti failed as Escort Police; question of belief in ju ju on Gold Coast and incident when it effect a police sergeant.
REEL 12 Continues: Recollections of period as Superintendent of Police in Nyeri District, Kenya, 1949-1952: posting to Kenya, late 1948; contrast in ranching standards between European and African owned parts of central Kenya; initial job managing traffic in Nairobi; dealing with reckless female driver; character of white settler community; eccentricities of members of Nanyuki Club; taking up position in Nyeri District; dealing with stock theft; racial definition of social structure and its relevance to African disgruntlement in Nairobi; his handicap through lack of Ki- Swahili; contrast in African attitudes to Europeans on Gold Coast and in Kenya; his friendship with Brigadier Beyts.
REEL 13 Continues: presenting of Imray-Beyts memorandum to administration about atmosphere in the African reserves; character of Governor Mitchell, 1950; pressure on Governor Mitchell from Bishop Beecher of Mombasa and from Andrew Cohen at the Colonial Office; signs of increasing Kikuyu discontent in Nyeri District, 1950-1951; news of oath taking ceremony taking place in Nyeri reserves; intelligence he obtained from Ian Henderson and Bernard Ruck; importance of recruiting to Kenya Police Reserve on level of European casualties. Recollections of period as Superintendent of Police and Assistant Commissioner in Coastal District, 1952-1957: transfer to Mombasa, winter 1951-1952; news of Operation Jock Scott to round up Mau Mau leaders, 1952; origins of Mau Mau movements.
REEL 14 Continues: denuding of his province of equipment for use in disturbed areas; degree of contact he had with progress of Mau Mau Emergency; lack of effect of Mau Mau coastal province; break out of Mau Mau internees from Manyani camp, 1955; arrival of Governor Sir Evelyn Baring in mid 1950s; General Robert Erskine's promotion of villagisation programme; question of Mau Mau influence on Giriyama tribe; visits by Erskine; concern over effect of Nasser's broadcasts on coastal populations; Erskine's sending of Royal Navy flotilla to Mombasa to show the flag; handling of disorder in Mombasa; Commissioner's formation of General Service Unit to patrol streets and its' effectiveness.
REEL 15 Continues: role in charge of security arrangements for Princess Margaret's visit to Kenya; memories of Sir Evelyn Baring; his contact with Ian Henderson and Bernard Ruck; question of role of Europeans who had close contact with Kikuyu.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work, 1919-1939
Civilian Life And War Work, 1939-1945
Civilian Life And War Work Since 1945

Duration
450

NumberOfParts
15

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Imray, Colin Herbert

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Newspaper photographs in file

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
18822

ProductionDate
4/May/1999

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
rifle, British: Lee Enfield Mark 4 SMLE

IndexPeople
Aitchison, George Lilbourne xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & St Albans, Herts
GB, England & Cambridge, Cambs
GB, Scotland
GB, Scotland & Dunbar
CN
CN & Shanghai
IN
IN & Bombay
IN & Imphal
IN & Twitam Ridge
BU
BU & Mingladon
BU & River Bilin
BU & River Sittang
BU & Tiddim Road
BU & Kalewa
BU & Tiddim
BU & Milestone 52
CN
CN & Shanghai
CN & Manchuria
SU
SU & Moscow
YU
YU & Bosnia
YU & Belgrade
YU & Dubrovnik
IT
IT & Venice
NG
NG & Lagos
NG & Sokoto Province
NG & Niger Province
NG & Zuru District
NG& Oturkpo
NG & Bue

IndexUnits
GB.O & University, Cambridge, College Selwyn
GB.A & Bulford Barracks
GB.O & Shanghai Volunteer Corps
IN.A & Depot, Gurkha Rifles 4, Bukloh
IN.A & Gurkha Rifles, Bn 1/4, Coy Headquarters
IN.A & Gurkha Rifles, Bn 1/4, Coy B
IN.A & Gurkha Rifles, Bn 1/3
IN.A & Punjab Regt, Bn 1/16
IN.A & Bde 48
JP.A & Div 33 'White Tiger'

IndexConcepts
Decolonisation

ShortSummary
British civilian schoolchild in Shanghai, China, 1920-1938; student at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, GB, 1938-1940; officer served with 1/4th Gurkha Rifles in India and Burma, 1941-1945. Civilian volunteer building railway in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, 1947; colonial district officer in Nigeria, 1948-1967

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Shanghai, China and GB, 1920-1939: family; education. Reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Various aspects of guarding RAF Duxford with Cambridge University ATC, 1940. Period or working at Rest Centre in Bethnal Green during London Blitz, 1940: role and duties; public morale. Period as student at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, 1940-1941: German bomb hit on Fenner's cricket ground; effect of war on college life; billeting of RAF personnel. Period of officer cadet training in GB, 1941: character of training at Bulford Barracks, 1941; training at OCTU at Dunbar; composition of OCTU. Voyage from GB to India, 1941: competition for female nursing staff aboard ship by officers; use of alcohol; conditions aboard ship; effects of buying mangoes in Freetown; arrival in Bombay.
REEL 2 Continues: Various aspects of reception at 4th Gurkha Rifle Depot at Bukloh, India, 1941. Second hand account of friend's role with 48th Bde Headquarters in Burma, 1/1942-5/1942: role as brigade orderly officer at brigade headquarters at Mingladon, 1/1942; opinion of Japanese soldier in 1941; story of how his opinion of the Japanese soldier was coloured by his father's letters from Shanghai; question of Japanese successes, 1941-1942; failure of British to standardise ammunition and weapons; Japanese tactics, 2/1942; Japanese use of ponies; retreat from River Bilin to River Sittang, 2/1942; role in command of Bde Headquarters Defence Platoon; chaotic character of situation.
REEL 3 Continues: bureaucratic obstruction of Burmese civil servants; question of complacency at Mingladon Headquarters; problems Gurkhas had with 3 inch mortars; Gurkha nicknames for Japanese mortars; question of importance of appearance in Indian Army; incidence of VD in British unit at Rangoon. Recollections of operations with 1/4th Gurkha Rifles in Burma and India, 1942-1944: transfer to Headquarters Coy at Imphal, 5/1942; opinion of decision to build Tiddim Road; opinion of Lee Enfield Mark 4 SMLE; problems with supply lines; opinion of Japanese 33rd Div 'White Tiger'; transport problems in Imphal area; role of Chins at Tiddim; British probing patrols towards Kalewa; reasons for lack of Japanese activity.
REEL 4 Continues: reasons why Milestone 52 was important to both British and Japanese, 10/1943; role commanding B Coy; attitude towards him by officers of 1/16 Punjab Regt; appearance of uniform; effect of Japanese attack on 1/16th Punjab Regt at Milestone 52, 11/1943; role of 1/3rd Gurkha Rifles against Japanese 33rd Div, 11/1943; failure to attack Milestone 52, late 1943; character of Japanese defences during attack at Milestone 52, 12/12/1943.
REEL 5 Continues: Japanese use of local materials to build bunkers; question of inadequate Gurkha patrolling work, 12/1943; unit casualties in attacks on Japanese; reasons why Japanese had not attempted to shoot him during reconnaissance patrol; Japanese strategy, spring 1944; defensive positions adopted near Twitam Ridge, 3/1944.
REEL 6 Continues: opinion of Japanese grenades; effectiveness of Japanese mortars and machine guns; use of corrugated iron for defence against Japanese grenades on Twitam Ridge, 3/1944; capture of Twitam Ridge from Japanese; advance to Imphal, 4/1944; weakness of Japanese air power at Imphal; opinion of Japanese infantryman; condition of Japanese troops at Imphal, summer 1944; supply of trained Gurkha re-inforcements. Period at 4th Gurkha Rifles regimental training centre at Bukloh, India, 1944-1945: drain on recruits from recruitment area 4; role and duties; attitude to duties at Bukloh from 8/1944.
REEL 7 Continues: Correction of his account of events of 2/1942. Question of why Japanese position at Milestone 52 was crucial to campaign. Attitude towards Japanese in Second World War. Recollections of period as schoolboy in Shanghai, 1920-1938: attitude of Chinese to Europeans; national gangs amongst children; relations between Chinese and European children; character of French Concession; incident of losing face in presence of Chinese crowd; flooding of labour market by refugees from China; living and working conditions of coolies; use of Sikh mounted police to disperse threat of anti-British riot; British control in International Settlement.
REEL 8 Continues: the Taipan Oligarchy; plight of White Russians; question of failure to recognise Japanese threat; question of temptation to regard Japanese as allies against potential of Chinese uprising; problems of social contact between Chinese and British; use of Scouts by Shanghai Volunteer Corps; system of re-patriation for 'Distressed British Subjects'; fate of British community in Shanghai after Japanese take-over, 1941; meaning of terms 'Ning-po no fah' and 'rice-bowl broken'; use of Chinese servants; hierarchy among Chinese.
REEL 9 Continues: lifestyle of Chinese elite; story of escaping from his amah and crossing the settlement boundary, c1923- 1924; Racecourse facilities; attitude towards Eurasians; parts of Racecourse that Chinese allowed into; drag hunts; attitude of British to their lifestyle; attitude of British to Communist threat; visits from literary figures; attitude of British and Chinese to cleanliness.
REEL 10 Continues: Chinese sense of humour; attitude of his mother to Chinese; description of term 'cumshaw'; differing Chinese and British to noise; nature of Shanghai-Nagasaki shipping route; entry of Chinese 19th Route Army into northern Shanghai and character of their defence against Japanese, 7/1937; Japanese looting of northern Shanghai. Recollections of journey from St Albans to Shanghai, 1938: impressions of German courtesy on Dutch border; character of Polish-Russian frontier.
REEL 11 Continues: confiscation of his textbooks in Russia; character of murals on Russian border; visit to Red Square in Moscow; character of Trans-Siberian rail journey to Manchuria; reception by Japanese in Manchuria; Japanese anti-British actions in north China, 1937-1938; refusal of French in Shanghai to allow Japanese to take liberties; Russian bureaucracy on Trans-Siberian railway; return to GB from Shanghai, autumn 1938.
REEL 12 Continues: Recollections of period as volunteer building railway in Yugoslavia, 1947: background to going to build railway; character of group of volunteers; reasons for becoming left-wing; arrival in Bosnia; economic situation in Yugoslavia including; lack of Marshall Aid; attempt by Yugoslav authorities to forge national unity; living conditions for volunteers; contrast in work discipline of English volunteers and other nationalities; rewards for fulfilling quotas; state of Belgrade; rail journey to Dubrovnik.
REEL 13 Continues: question of false story that Yugoslavs intended to intervene militarily in Greece; reaction of Croats in Dubrovnik to English volunteers singing Serbian songs; Slovene intellectual's story of confiscated property; attitude to recreation in Venice; question of national atmospheres in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, GB and Yugoslavia, 1947. Recollections of period as district officer in Nigeria, 1948- 1967: opinion of colonial administrator course attended at Cambridge, 1947; reaction of civil servants to Nigerian postings; mishandling by customs officials in Lagos, 2/1948; official reaction after Accra riots; duties expected of district officers; civil service hierarchy in Nigerian provinces.
REEL 14 Continues: indirect rule system; character of different tribes; story of PG Harris' campaign to have Zuru district transferred from Sokoto Province to Niger Province; character of steward Haruna; Haruna's organising of his touring; tasks performed on tour; methods of individual Residents; story of how Resident Backhouse discovered corrupt practices undetected by Aitchison; learning Hausa.
REEL 15 Continues: objections made by Resident Backhouse to Aitchison's administrative methods; background to his posting to Oturkpo; tensions between Idoma and Ibo over land; attitude of Idoma to coin payments; problems with tsetse fly; character of Idoma language; Hausa etiquette; question of boundary drawing in West Africa; reasons for issue of kerosene burning fridges to civil servants; problems with snakes and scorpions.
REEL 16 Continues: recounting of amusing Hausa story; living conditions for administrators; question of misuse of power by some Residents; state of laterite roads; story of posting to Bue illustrating power of Residents; defects with touring system; leave arrangements in GB; activities on leave including parachute training with 21 Special Air Service; problems of moving from posting to posting; period in Lagos; effect of slowness of his promotion on his wife's status and official allocations; progress towards self- government, late 1950s.
REEL 17 Continues: resignations of civil servants on independence; story of how Ibo with employment grievance made use of contact with Fenner Brockway to get personal satisfaction at expense of public interest; waste of reserve funds after independence; advantages of service after independence, 1960- 1966; character of military coup, 1/1966; Hausa massacre of Ibos, 5/1966; belief that Europeans might be next to be victims of Hausas; attempt to save his Ibo ayah from beating by Hausas; problems British had evacuating Ibos back to Iboland.
REEL 18 Continues: character of experts sent from United Nations and Ford Foundation, pre- 1966; story relating to independence in Uganda; experience of entrepreneur dealing with Nigerians after independence; question of complete sense of security, 1960- 1966 and change after coup, 1/1966; attempt to resign in declining situation, 1966; lack of help from British High Commissioner; problems of serving twelve month's notice, 8/1966-8/1967; problems of leaving Nigeria, 8/1967; financial plight of British families fleeing Nigeria, 1967; constitutional background to 1/1966 coup; re- settling in GB, 1967-1968.
REEL 19 Continues: problems of obtaining employment; need to review his life day after he retired; question of change in British society, 1937-1967; failure of friend to cope with life in GB, 1960s.

ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1939-1945: Burma

Duration
555

NumberOfParts
19

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Aitchison, George Lilbourn

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
19060

ProductionDate
17/Jun/1999

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Murray, James Gordon xxx
Jackson, Ken
Jamrik
Kamathi, Dedan

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Kelloe, Co Durham
GB, Northern Ireland
DE
DE & Berlin
YD
YD & The Crater
KR
KR & Pusan
KR & Naechon
EG
EG & Canal Zone
EG & Fayid
KE
KE & Molo
KE & White Highlands
KE & Eldama Ravine
KE & Aberdare Mountains
KE & Athaya
KE & Mnyangi
MY, Sarawak
MY, Sarawak & Bukit Nukel

IndexUnits
GB.A & Durham Light Infanty, Bn 1, Coy S
GB.A & Depot, Branspeth Castle
GB.O & Ship, Empire Trooper
GB.O & Ship, Empire Orwell
GB.A & Correction Centre, Colchester
GB.O & Hospital, Musgrave
GB.O & Prison, Maze
GB.A & Corps, Military Provost Staff
AU.A & Royal Australian Regt, Bn 1
GB.A & Camp, Britannia, Korea
GB.O & Women's Voluntary Service
GB.O & Police School, Nyeri, Kenya

ShortSummary
British NCO served with S Coy, 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Korea, 1952-1953; police officer in Kenya, 1956; NCO served with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Borneo, 1964-1965; served with Military Provost Staff in GB, 1969-1979

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Kelloe, 1933-1951: family; education; German bombing of village c1941; food shortages during Second World War; victory celebrations, 1945; employment in farming and coal mining, 1948-1951. Aspects of enlistment and training with British Army in GB, 1951-1952: reaction to call-up for National Service, 1951; basic training at Branspeth Castle; boxing training. Period with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Berlin, Germany, 1952: assault pioneer training including disarming booby traps; relations with German civilians; guard duties in Berlin; contrast in demeanour of Russians and East Germans. Voyage from GB to Korea aboard Empire Trooper, 8/1952: conditions on board; training and boxing achievements; route march around The Crater, Aden. Recollections of operations with S Coy, 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Korea, 1952-1953: reception in Pusan; train journey to Britannia Camp; attachment to 1st Bn Royal Australian Regt to learn layout of minefields; pattern of mine-laying.
REEL 2 Continues: contrast between Australian and Durham Light Infantry; volunteering to carry gun-cotton charge on patrol against Chinese target in cavern, c11/1952; execution of attack; treatment he received for having disobeyed orders during attack; physical characteristics of Durham men; fate of Chinese POWs captured during raid; unit casualties during raid on Chinese wire, early 1953; Coronation celebrations, 6/1953.
REEL 3 Continues: attitude towards Chinese troops; importance of dominating no-man's land; living conditions in front-line; improvement in cooking after regimental cooks took over; observation of rats in trenches; contracting boils; role of Women's Voluntary Service with wounded; his trip to Japan with wounded; return voyage from Japan to Korea; contact with Korean civilians; presence of Korean Augmentation Troops Commonwealth (KATCOMS) in unit; leaving Korea, 9/1953. Voyage from Korea to Egypt aboard Empire Orwell, 1953: two factions among ex- POWs on board; eagerness of ex-POWs to disembark from ship; ex-POW who developed antagonism towards him. Period with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Canal Zone, Egypt, 1953-1954: guard duties a Fayid; problem dealing with civilians; story of being exonerated after accidental shooting of two RAF officers. Recollections of period as Police officer in Kenya, 1956: volunteering for police work, c1/1956.
REEL 4 Continues: move to Molo in White Highlands; fingerprinting severed hands brought in by pseudo-gang member, Ken Jackson at Eldama Ravine; period at Nyeri Police School; start of his police work in Aberdare Mountains at Athaya; move to Mnyangi; adoption of Jamrik a half Kikuyu, half Masai man; death of area Mau Mau leader Dedan Kamathi; atrocities committed by Mau Mau; Mau Mau fear of pseudo-gangs; physical state of Mau Mau who returned from forest; reasons for Mau Mau uprising.
REEL 5 Continues: general police duties at Mnyangi; character of Kikuyu people; Kipsigi people in police force; reasons why his time in colony ended; question of why army was ineffective against Mau Mau. Period with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in GB, Germany and Hong Kong, 1961-1963: reasons for volunteering for army, 1961; duties in Berlin when Berlin wall was erected; arrival in Hong Kong, 1963. Recollections of operations as NCO with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry in Borneo, 1964-1965: re-forming of assault pioneer platoon; engineer work at Bukit Nukel; laying ambush for Indonesians, c1965; springing of ambush on Indonesians.
REEL 6 Continues: river patrols and encounter with tidal bore; problems of satisfying craving for chips in unit; question of why air supplies of potato, meat and beer were always lost in swamps; hazard of leptospirosis; Gurkha success against Indonesians. Recollections of period with Military Provost Staff Corps in GB, 1969-1979: military policing in Colchester, 1960s; joining unit in 1969; work at Correction Centre at Colchester, 1969-1979; attachments to Maze Prison and Musgrave Hospital in Northern Ireland, 1972 and 1979; searches of visitors to Maze Prison; guarding wounded prisoners at Musgrave Hospital; question of personal safety; living conditions in Maze Prison.
REEL 7 Continues: running of pig farm at Colchester. Question of problems of adjusting to civilian life after 1979. Question of promotion in army and contents of his army reports. Attitude towards having served in British Army.

ContextDescription
Service Operations Since 1945: Korea, 1950-1953

Duration
195

NumberOfParts
7

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Murray, James Gordon

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
FIR 2742

ProductionDate
1965

ItemName
Astra M800 (Astra Condor)

ObjectType
pistol

IndexPlaces
South Yemen & Aden

IndexUnits
YD.O & NLF & FLOSY
GB.A & Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry, Bn 1

IndexHistPeriod
1945 - 1975

FullSummary
This pistol was used in the murder of two Aden police officers in March 1966, during the disturbances which preceded the independence of South Yemen. It was discovered buried in a plastic washbag by members of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. (See EPH 9986 for details of the washbag).

ProductionCompany
Astra-Unceta y Cia, Guernica, Spain

RelatedIWMItems
plastic bag & (see file)

RelatedImageFile
FIR_002742.jpg

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
25/03/2009 05:50:44

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Standard production Astra Condor, serial number 829573. The left grip panel is broken, causing the safety to malfunction.

Access
On display at IWM London

IndexPlace
Aden

IndexEvent
Operations in Aden 1965-1966, Southern Arabia, Cold War

Theme
Aden 1960-1967

CoLStatus
Ready

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
FIR 2843

ProductionDate
1934

ItemName
Pistol, Revolver, No2 Mk1

ObjectType
pistol

IndexUnits
CY.O & EOKA

IndexHistPeriod
1945 - 1975

FullSummary
This pistol is just one example of the huge range of weapons employed by the Greek separatist organization EOKA (Ethnike Organosis Kypriakou Agonos), who waged a terrorist campaign in Cyprus between 1955 and 1959. This particular pistol was used in 15 murders and 7 attempted murders in 1956-57, before being seized from the house of a Greek police constable on 2 February 1957. It was presented to the Imperial War Museum by the Cyprus Police.

ProductionCompany
RSAF Enfield, Enfield Lock, Middx

RelatedImageFile
FIR_002843.jpg

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
11/12/2008 05:51:41

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
A standard example of the .38 inch Enfield No 2 Mk 1 revolver, as issued to British forces from 1929 onwards. This weapon was manufactured at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield in 1934. Serial number C5942.

Access
On display at IWM London

IndexPlace
Cyprus

IndexEvent
Cyprus Emergency 1954-1959

Theme
Cyprus post-1945

CoLStatus
Ready

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
OMD 3914

ProductionDate
1951

ItemName
George Medal & GM

ObjectType
medal

IndexPeople
Graver, R (Police Lieutenant)

IndexUnits
GB.O & Federation of Malaya Police

FullSummary
London Gazette announcement 24 April 1951. The action took place in the Kulai District of Johore during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). Robert Graver was later killed in action during the Indonesian Confrontation on 13 October 1965.

ProductionCompany
Royal Mint

RelatedIWMItems
OMD 3913 : OMD 3915-3919 : OMD 3920 : EPH 1388 : DOCS

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
The medal, made of silver, is 36 mm in diameter. The ribbon, which is 32mm in width, is red with five equidistant narrow vertical stripes in `Garter' blue. The design of the obverse bears the crowned head of King George VI, facing left with the legend '+ GEORGIVS VI DEI GRA BRIT OMN REX FID: DEF' The reverse design comprises the figure of St. George, a glory around his head, on horseback facing right, driving his lance into the body of a writhing dragon on the coast of England. In the distance, forming the horizon line, the sea. Around the edge, the text 'THE GEORGE MEDAL'.The medal is suspended by a ring. The obverse was designed by Mr. Percy Metcalf. This is an example of the George VI second type. The naming is in upright capital letters 'ROBERT GRAVER'

Access
Access by prior appointment

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
WEA 846

ItemName
Simi (knife favoured by the Kikuyu tribe of Kenya)

ObjectType
knife

IndexUnits
KE.O & Mau Mau

FullSummary
Seized during the Kenya Emergency (1952-56) from a Mau Mau insurgent. The Mau Mau was a secret society dedicated to driving white settlers out of Kenya. Its recruits came largely from the Kikuyu tribe. Intervention by the British Army brought an end to put the insurrection, but not before the Mau Mau had killed over 2,000 people. The cost of suppressing the revolt was instrumental in Britain's decision to withdraw from her colonial possessions in Africa. Kenya gained its independence in 1963.

RelatedImageFile
WEA_000846.jpg

Weighting
1000
900

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire
IrregularWarfare

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Double-edged swell-point blade with wooden hilt of near circular section, with tight-fitting hide cover.

Access
On display at IWM North

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
UNI 11437

ProductionDate
1955

ItemName
headdress, khaki service dress cap, officer's pattern with Official War Correspondent's Badge.

ObjectType
headdress

IndexPeople
Forbes, Ian Andrew.

IndexPlaces
Egypt

IndexUnits
GB.A & War Correspondent

FullSummary
Ian Andrew Forbes, born 25 September 1925, died 1 September 1996. He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, later joining Kemsley Newspapers. Forbes served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War a a ship's Writer in HMS Implacable. Following demobilisation, he returned to Kemsley Newspapers as a crime journalist. Forbes later joined Thompsons. In 1956 Forbes became an accredited war correspondent during the Suez Campaign. Following the end of the Suez Campaign he went back to crime reporting and eventually retired as News Editor.

ProductionCompany
Sanders & Brightman, Luton

RelatedIWMItems
UNI 11435 - UNI 11437 and documents - see accession file.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
officer's standard pattern khaki service dress cap, size 7 5/8ths, with leather chinstrap and sweatband. The badge, in embroidered cloth is comprises the letter C in gold on a green background, surrounded by a gold circlet. The makers name, Sander & Brightman, Luton with the date 1955, is stamped on the sweatband.

Access
Access by prior appointment

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 723

ProductionDate
9/1945

ItemName
[OPERATION ZIPPER (Reel 1)] [Allocated]
[BEAMISH COLLECTION] [series, allocated]

IndexPlaces
India (?)
Malaya (?)

ShortSummary
Home movie shot during the embarkation and landings of Operation Zipper, September, 1945.

FullSummary
This film shows troopships assembling in an unidentified Indian port and Australian and Indian troops boarding them. The convoy sets sail for Malaya and there are scenes of life on board the troopships, including amateur dramatics. Australian troops are seen disembarking and arriving at the beach, probably Morib beach. The congestion of lorries, jeeps, Buffaloes, DUKWs, LCTs and LCMs suggest that this landing was late on D-Day, September 9th, or possibly the day after. Film is then taken from a vehicle going inland through Malayan villages where it seems that the Chinese Malayan Communist Party have seized control. There are civilians or troops lining most of the route. The route passes a collapsed girder bridge, a knocked out railway yards and a Japanese airfield where Zero fighters are still on the tarmac (almost certainly Kelanang airfield). Having arrived at Kuala Lumpur there is a parade of British, Australian and Indian troops and also the troops of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. There are then a few scenes shot at the surrender of the Japanese Malayan forces under Lieutenant General Ishiguro to Lieutenant General Roberts (XXXIV Corps) on September 13th in Kuala Lumpur.

ContextDescription
Documentation/associated material: there is a small amount of army record film covering these events JFU 319/326. This material tends to be better shot but is of course black and white.
Remarks: film taken during 'Operation Zipper' is rare and the colour footage shot on the Malayan peninsula is possibly unique. It is interesting to see the role of the Chinese Malayan Communist Party and of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. These two groups, now acting with the allies, were of course later the basis of the opposition to the British through the twelve year emergency.
Technical: the first five minutes of this film is black and white but from the journey inland by road onwards it is Kodachrome.

Duration
11 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
Colour

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
407 ft

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
08/01/2009 05:50:22

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
JYY 60

ProductionDate
1942

ItemName
[JAPANESE CAPTURE OF SINGAPORE] [Allocated]

IndexEvents
Second World War, Singapore, Fall of & 1942

IndexObjects
armour, Japanese - tank: light tank type 95, HA-GO
armour, Japanese - tank: medium tank type 97, CHI-HA
prisoners of war, Indian - custody
casualties, Japanese graves - battlefield
aircraft, British - combat: [wrecked]
arts, Japanese - music: Singapore victory song

IndexPeople
Yamashita, Tomoyuki (General)
Percival, Arthur (General)

IndexPlaces
Malaya & Kuala Lumpur
Malaya & Johore
Singapore
Singapore & City Hall
Singapore & Raffles Statue

IndexUnits
JP.A & Army 25
GB.A
US.O & Ford Motor Company

ShortSummary
Documentary on Japanese advance through Malaya, attack on Singapore, British surrender and Japanese victory parade.

FullSummary
Heavily laden medium tank Type 97, CHI-HA with palm leaf camouflage advances along road flanked by rubber plantations; abandoned British Bren carriers lie in the ditch. Advance continues as tanks, cyclist troops and trucks move on over blown bridge and past Malays in white lining route. Trucks enter Kuala Lumpur, where black smoke rises in the distance. Troops overcome difficult jungle terrain; horse assists cyclist soldier up incline. Other soldiers cross river and advance on bicycles before deploying as if for attack near villa. View from Johore shore across to Singapore Island. British troops, carrying a white flag and Union Jack, meet Japanese for surrender at the Ford Motor Company (sign clearly seen). Japanese General Yamashita and British General Percival seated in room to discuss surrender. Japanese troops banzai. Ruined defences. Graves. Shot of statue of Sir Stamford Raffles. Japanese tanks move through Singapore.

ContextDescription
Title: Film has no title but it shares some sequences with JYY 061 which are differently arranged. JYY 061 is a separate film.
The Union Jack featured is held by the IWM's Department of Exhibits and Firearms reference FLA2449.

Duration
9 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
824 ft

ProductionCountry
Japan

Language
Japanese

LanguageMainTitles
Japanese

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
FAL 8005

ProductionDate
1982

ItemName
[FALKLANDS WAR] [Allocated]
[RICHARD ELLIOTT AMATEUR FILM OF FALKLANDS WAR 1982] [Alternative]

ShortSummary
Amateur colour film taken on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary «Sir Geraint» of the journey to the Falkland Islands in April 1982, the landings and subsequent Argentinian Air Force attacks in San Carlos Bay in May.

FullSummary
(Reel 1) CU of landing ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) «Sir Galahad» (L3005) leaving Plymouth (April). Helicopters on deck are seen with troops at attention lining ship's rail, as the ship passes the camera. RFA «Sir Percival» (L3036) at sea, two days out. Men at exercise on deck. Flight Deck Officer (FDO) climbs into a Westland Gazelle helicopter. Other Gazelles on deck. CU of RFA «Sir Percival» alongside camera ship. Good shots of Gazelle on deck of «Sir Geraint» and take-off. Wessex helicopter ferries supplies to distant ship.
Crossing the line ceremony. Neptune (Lieutenant Jackson) and others (Sergeant Major Gilbert wearing bra) duck first-timers.
MS Ascension Island. Pan of fleet at anchor. Men unloading and transferring stores via motorised raft. Landing craft F4 from «HMS Fearless» comes alongside with men and equipment onboard. MS of «SS Canberra». Evening shot, in silhouette, of a helicopter coming into land on the deck of «Sir Geraint». FDO waves it down. Helicopters (Gazelle/Sea King/Wessex) ashore on runway with Hercules transport aircraft in the background. REME personnel at work on helicopters.
On board «Sir Geraint». REME personnel play up to the camera. Sunset at sea. Westland Wessex helicopter flies over with a Gazelle helicopter slung beneath and deposits it on «Sir Geraint». Signalling with lamp from «Sir Geraint» to ships in line astern. Helicopters (Sea Kings?) ferrying items between ships. Drone launched from RFA «Sir Geraint» for target practice. Explosions in air as ships fire on the drone. On deck, CU of missile being loaded into missile launcher on Gazelle. MS of Gazelle taking off from deck, which then overflies the ship and test fires its missiles. The helicopter then returns to «Sir Geraint».
(Reel 2). Newspaper headline (Daily Mirror) 'HMS Sheffield is sunk'. CU of a slightly tattered Blue Ensign (flown on vessels commanded by officers of Royal Naval Reserve) flying. Ships in line ahead and astern.
Gazelle prepared for take-off in rough weather. Good shots of preparations, take-off and return. CU loading missile into missile launcher on Gazelle. Pan of fleet at sea.
Dawn sequence in San Carlos Bay, as Gazelle comes into land on RFA «Sir Geraint». A Sea King flies low over the sea. LS of Fanning Head at the far end of San Carlos Bay, with a ship at anchor in the distance. D-Day. Stores, equipment and vehicles are lifted ashore by Sea King helicopters. Good shots of unloading from RFA «Sir Geraint». An Argentinian Mirage fighter aircraft flies low over the fleet and the bay. Bomb splashes are seen around the ship, as ships at anchor fire on the aircraft.
LS of Fanning Head with ship, «HMS Argonaut», on fire in the distance. CU damaged «HMS Argonaut» on 1st/2nd day after attack (23/24 May), the hole in ship's hull clearly seen.
«HMS Antelope» on the morning of 24 May, the day after the unexploded Argentinian bomb detonated, showing blackened and smoking superstructure, filmed from RFA «Sir Geraint».
Pan of fleet. Bofors gun onboard «Sir Geraint» manned by Royal Navy personnel.
MS of «HMS Antelope», with smoke pouring from her superstructure, the bows and stern slowly raise, as she splits in two and sinks, 24 May.
Rainbow in San Carlos Bay. Personnel from A-Flight 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron climb aboard a Sea King helicopter D+3. Ashore, San Carlos settlement after an air raid D+4/5. Digging slit trenches. Pan of the bay. Gurkhas and Scots Guards manning guns. Troops moving out in file.
On board «Sir Geraint» D-Day 21 May. REME men oversee one of the first lifts ashore; guns are lifted off by a Sea King. Bomb splashes in the sea, as an Argentinian aircraft streaks over and is hit by a missile(?). The aircraft tumbles from the sky into the sea. Further bomb splashes around ships at anchor, as an Argentinian aircraft flies very low and straddles a ship with bombs. The aircraft (or another?) is hit by a missile and explodes.
Captain D E Lawrence (DSC) of RFA «Sir Geraint». A fully armed unit boards a Sea King and is ferried ashore. Ashore four days later (25 May?) showing troops dug in and a Gazelle helicopter hidden in a dip between hills. A REME unit plays cricket at the base of Mount Kent (c.30 May). Shot of camouflaged base camp and stores. Men look up, as two Argentinian aircraft fly low between the hills.
Damaged Argentinian helicopters and equipment are seen strewn on the ground and British troops stand around. A destroyed Argentinian tank, with more wrecked helicopters and equipment. Smoke rises from a nearby building.
A pan of a settlement (San Carlos?). Ships in the bay at sunset.

ContextDescription
Summary: Richard Elliott was a Staff Sergeant in REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)attached to A Flight 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron on board Royal Fleet Auxilliary «Sir Geraint».
Technical: shot on Super 8mm, blown up to 16mm.

Duration
30 mins

Format
Super 8mm
16mm

Colour
Colour

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
700 ft (8mm)
1290 ft (16mm)

ProductionTeam
Elliott, Richard: cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

RelatedIWMItems
Audiotape description held on cassette

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire
SocietyAndTraditions

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
NON-IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 3829

ProductionDate
10/1967

ItemName
[NAVAL RATINGS FROM HMS PHOEBE PARTICIPATE IN ARMY PATROLS IN ADEN] [Allocated]
[POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ADEN] [series, allocated]

IndexEvents
Aden Emergency

IndexObjects
operations, British military - search: house to house

IndexPlaces
Yemen & Aden

IndexUnits
GB.N & Phoebe
GB.A & Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

ShortSummary
Army patrols in city of Aden conduct house searches and check driver's identity papers. Except at the beginning of the reel, there is little evidence of naval participation.

FullSummary
A sailor from the frigate «HMS Phoebe» assists a soldier of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in frisking a group of Arabs who stand with raised hands as they are searched. The soldier and two sailors are seen picking their way over rocky terrain outside the city - all carry FN rifles. They climb by rope up a low cliff. Cut to sequence shot from a vehicle on a street patrol in Aden city - the preceding Land Rover comes to a halt and three soldiers jump out, two carrying rifles and one a Sterling. Arabs are rousted out of one of the houses and lined up against a wall to be searched by the soldiers. The patrol continues, the vehicles passing a group of children playing in the road, a taxi stand, a building covered in FLOSY and NLF slogans. The leading Land Rover stops in traffic and an Arab car driver is ordered out of his vehicle to have his papers examined. The patrol continues along the seafront. The patrol finished, the soldiers remove the magazines from rifles and SMGs.

Duration
4 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
135 ft

ProductionSponsor
Department of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence [Royal Navy]

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 4098

ProductionDate
3/1969

ItemName
[OPERATION SHEEPSKIN - THE INVASION OF ANGUILLA] [Allocated]
[POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ANGUILLA] [series, allocated]

IndexObjects
ships, British naval - frigate: Minerva (F.45)
ships, British naval - frigate: Rothesay (F.107)
aircraft, British - transport: Hawker Siddeley Andover
aircraft, British naval - helicopter: Westland Wasp
law and order, British - use of troops: Anguilla
supplies, British, movement - misc: helicopter

IndexPeople
Webster, Ronald
Lee, Anthony
Way, Andrew G P

IndexPlaces
Anguilla

IndexUnits
GB.N & Minerva
GB.N & Rothesay
GB.A & Div, Airborne, 1
GB.A & Parachute Regt, Bn 2
GB.F & Air Support Command
GB.N & Royal Marines
GB.O & Metropolitan Police & Special Patrol Group

ShortSummary
Scenes on the Caribbean island of Anguilla after the British landing of 19 March, 1969.

FullSummary
Reel One. The morning of the invasion (the troops had landed before 5.30 am), angry Anguillans surround the office of the British Commissioner, Anthony Lee. London policemen from the Special Patrol Group try to pacify the crowd, but the arrival of the Commissioner in a Volkswagen sparks off a disturbance. In the ensuing mêlée Lee is roughly handled and two policemen receive slight injuries - one policeman can be seen afterwards with his shirt torn at the shoulder. Lee leaves the scene in the Volkswagen, which has been dented on the hood and roof, a policeman holding a loud hailer riding on the outside of the car. After Lee has departed, the police talk with the crowd which is volatile but without real violent intent. Notable among the policemen is the substantial figure of their commander, Assistant Commissioner Way, wearing his blue serge uniform despite the Caribbean heat (his lightweight clothes had been lost when the case containing them had fallen out of a Naval helicopter). Locals hold up a placard inscribed GO HOME TONY LEE, WE DON'T WANT YOU, YOU MUST GO, FREEDOM IS OUR AIM. Many carry the Anguillan flag. Sequence shot on the beach - Royal Marines and a RN shore party rest in the shade provided by the hull of a derelict sailing boat. Two ratings patrol the beach carrying FNs and wearing steel helmets and ammunition pouches - the inevitable result of this exertion is that they have to stop to refresh themselves with cold Heinekens. The film then reverts to crowd scenes - standing on a roof, the local leader Ronald Webster is waving the Anguillan flag for the benefit of a crouching cameraman. CU of a file of paratroopers standing watching a passing crowd of demonstrators - the soldiers appear amused, and one takes a photograph. At the airfield RAF Air Support Command Andovers are being unloaded by paratroopers, who have set up a temporary communications centre. At the beach there is a conversation, probably contrived for the camera, between three officers - a Royal Marine, a paratrooper and a Lieutenant-Commander of the RN shore party. A Land Rover passes with Tony Lee onboard. Reel Two. Sequence showing two Andover transports embarking paratroopers - the cameraman films from the cockpit as one of the aircraft takes off. Mr Lee chats with reporters. Sequence shot from a ship's launch showing the two frigates «HMS Minerva» (F.45) and «HMS Rothesay» (F.107) at anchor off the coast. Beach scenes. Mr Lee has an open-air press conference for the world's press and television. One of the frigate's Wasp helicopters delivers cargo nets of rations and kit to waiting troops - a local cricket match is underway in the background. More crowd scenes - one placard reads SHAME ON BRITAIN - Webster holds up a Bible (no doubt to indicate from whom he is receiving instructions). Webster meets the RM commander (?), Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Dawnay. More miscellaneous beach scenes - a RN Gemini inflatable delivers what appears to be a milk churn to the island. LS over soldier's tents pitched by the airstrip, and the piles of stores. MS of an Andover transport and CU of its Royal Air Force Air Support Command logo. Aerial views of the island - bay crowded with boats, waterfront buildings and lush palms, the island's arid interior. A demonstration led by Webster - placards includes ANGUILLANS DON'T WANT ST KITTS, NOR MR LEE, and BRUTISH BRITISH GO HOME. A file of smiling paratroopers stands outside the Community Centre watching the crowd go past - the soldiers are relaxed but still retain their rifles. CUs of more placards.

Duration
17 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
Colour

Sound
Mute

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
683 ft

ProductionSponsor
Department of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence [Royal Navy]

ProductionTeam
Hamp, P (S/Sergeant): cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

OtherReferences
Westlake, Donald E : 1973 : Under an English Heaven : Hodder and Stoughton

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
COI 670

ProductionDate
1948

ItemName
VOICES OF MALAYA [Main]

IndexObjects
reconstruction, Malayan
society, Malayan - domestic
society, Malayan - ethnic

IndexPlaces
Malaya

ShortSummary
Film showing Malaya before, during and after the war.

FullSummary
The film shows: how people from many races have settled here; the way that the Malays live; the Chinese and their way of life; the role of the Europeans, the 'white' man, in bringing civilisation to this area; the Indians and the way that they helped to build up Singapore; the way that money was spent - on hospitals, law and government, for example - to turn Malaya into a prosperous and contented country; 1941, when the Japanese overran the country and undid the work of more than a century; the building up of a secret resistance movement; the Japanese surrender; the desolation that faced people as they came back either from hiding or the army; cleaning up the mess that the Japanese had left before real productive work can proceed; disease, and the fact that the Japanese had refused to give medical treatment and many people were a long way from hospital and beyond the reach of ambulances; the shortage of food, which eventually led to stealing; the newspapers that were being produced; more easily available advice, and the idea that now, 'Malaya has changed. New ways grow side by side with the old. In no country is the struggle between traditional ways and the modern world more intense'.

ContextDescription
Production: 'The Crown Film Unit wishes to express its grateful appreciation to the men and women of Malaya and to those organisations - both in Malaya and in Britain - whose whole-hearted cooperation made this film possible. Amongst them are: His Highness Sir Abdul Aziz the Sultan of Perak, the Malayan Film Unit, Malay Opera Company, Chinese Opera Company, Malay Tribune, Geographical and Survey Museum, London'

Duration
34 mins

Format
N 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
sepopt

NumberOfParts
4

Dimensions
3017 ft

ProductionSponsor
Central Office of Information
Colonial Office

ProductionCompany
Crown Film Unit

ProductionTeam
Elton, Ralph: producer
Trench, Terry: producer
Hudson, Eric: unit manager
Freedman, Clive: assistant director
Khan, Yusee: assistant director
Seong, Lee Meow: assistant director
Shamsudin, Osman: assistant cameraman
Law, Red: sound recordist
May, Jock: sound recordist
Mackenzie, Jean: sound editor
Shortall, Paul: assistant editor
Densham, Denny: cameraman
Pritchett, V S: script ('words')
Lutyens, Elisabeth: music composer
The Philharmonic Orchestra: music performer
Hollingsworth, John: music conductor

ProductionCountry
GB

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
UPU

DeptName
Film

IDNO
COI 710

ProductionDate
1965

ItemName
AMBUSH [Main]

IndexObjects
aircraft, British - helicopter: Westland Whirlwind
animals, mammals: dog, tracker
combat [simulated], British - jungle warfare
operations, British military - sortie
weapons, British - smallarm: Sterling sub-machine gun
weapons, British - smallarm: SLR Rifle, FN L1A1
weapons, British - smallarm: No 5 Jungle Carbine, LE
weapons, British - smallarm: LMG L4 (Bren)
weapons, British - smallarm: 12 gauge military shotgun
weapons, British - smallarm: M16 automatic rifle

IndexPlaces
Malaya

ShortSummary
'Action' drama set in the period of the confrontation with Indonesia.

FullSummary
Establishing scenes show enemy soldiers carrying out an interrogation in a native village - they torture and kill a villager and raze some of the huts. A British patrol, alerted by the gunfire, arrive to discover the enemy has fled. The greater part of the film follows the subsequent pursuit through the jungle. An enemy ambush is foiled by the Lieutenant in command who, growing suspicious, orders his men to disperse. However, in the ensuing exchange of fire, the Lieutenant is wounded and Corporal Anscombe is obliged to take command. Reinforced by a combat tracker dog team, Anscombe leads his men in pursuit of the fleeing enemy, follows them to their camp and, although outnumbered, leads a successful - albeit somewhat premature - attack which scatters the enemy and carries the encampment. The film explains the rudiments of jungle warfare - the importance of helicopter transport, use of patrols and dog teams, tactics of ambush, etc. - while embellishing the original incident with fictional elements common to recruiting films - the non-commissioned man successfully taking on responsibility, the reluctant soldier who becomes enthusiastic after his first taste of action.

ContextDescription
Production: made at and with the assistance of the Jungle Warfare School, Far East Land Forces, and men of the 1st Battalion the Scots Guards, 1st Battalion the Durham Light Infantry, 2nd War Dog Training Unit RAVC, Gurkha Demonstration Company JWS and 103 Squadron RAF. Story based on an action carried out on 23/24 January 1964 by Second Lieutenant Michael Peele and men of 9 and 6 Platoons, 1st Royal Leicesters in Sabah, Borneo.
Documentation/associated material: details of the historical action may be found in 'The Undeclared War', by Harold James and Denis Sheil-Small, pp 102-104. By the time this film was made the 1st Royal Leicestershire Regiment had been merged into the 4th Royal Anglian Regiment.

Duration
30 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
Colour

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
2815 ft

ProductionSponsor
Central Office of Information

ProductionCompany
Associated British-Pathe

ProductionTeam
Forlong, Michael: director
Hoare, Lionel: producer
Jordan, William: director of photography
Glenister, Ronald: film editor
Voss, Roger: sound editor (dubbing)
Newberry, George: sound supervisor
Steadman, Edward: sound recordist
Pyke, Trevor: sound recordist
Profit, Michael: unit manager
Shakespeare, Joan: music composer
Shakespeare, John: musical director
Forlong, Michael: script
Field, Harry: executive producer
Hall, P G B: technical adviser

ProductionCast
Coll, Christopher: actor [as Corporal Anscombe]
Rees, John: actor [as Lieutenant Carter]
Leslie, John: actor [as Private White]
Futener, Hugh: actor [as Private Rooney]

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

OtherReferences
COI Files in Production Office - transfer details, music cue sheet, full synopsis, commentary script, shotsheet etc

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
EndOfEmpire

UncatTransferDate
20/02/2009 05:50:26

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM