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• Shell-handling Room : 'A' Gun Turret, "HMS Anson"

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945

  image: a view inside a gun turret with a sailor in the foreground, next to two large, loaded shells. A sailor in the background appears to be adjusting the settings of some of the machinery.

• The Nanking Road, Shanghai : Royal Marines marching in China's Victory Celebrations, October 1945

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945-10-01

  image: in the foreground civilians watch as Allied sailors march behind a band through a temporary decorated victory gateway. Flags fly from the buildings along the street and people wave from the balconies.

• A Phillippino with a Japanese Sword relates to British and Australian Marines his past Experiences with the Japanese, Leyte, 1946

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1946

  image: a British and Australian soldier sit with a Filipino man holding a sword. Next to him sits a breast-feeding woman, while a second woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat stands behind him.

• The Guard-house of the 5th Commando : Frontier Gate, New Territories, Hong Kong

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945-11-11

  image: a truck full of civilians are being inspected at the checkpoint by British soldiers. In the foreground a group of civilians wearing wide-brimmed straw hats are lowering their baskets for a British soldier to check their contents. The Union Jack...

• Members of the 5th Commando on the Anglo-Chinese Frontier near Hong Kong

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: Four British soldiers gather around a machine gun outside a tent.

• The Anglo-Chinese Frontier : October 1945, The Guard-house and guards of 5th Commando inspecting a Chinese lorry for smuggled goods entering British territory

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945-10-01

  image: a view looking across towards a British check point consisting of a low building flying a Union Jack next to a few tents. A lorry has been stopped and is being checked by soldiers. On the right some Chinese civilians are crossing a wooden bridge...

• The Nanking Road, Shanghai

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: Chinese civilians watch a procession of Allied soldiers and sailors with flags and banners march along the Nanking Road, Shanghai, through a white Chinese arch.

• HMS Argonaut : Ratings cleaning torpedo tubes

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: four bare-chested sailors clean the torpedo tubes on board a ship. There is a second large ship and a faint coastline to be seen in the background.

• HMS Belfast gives a Party on Board to Children of British Internees at Shanghai. The large crane is being used as a swing

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: sailors and civilians on the deck of HMS Belfast with the sailors lifting children into a lifeboat which is being used as a swing. More children await their turn.

• China Sea off Shanghai : 15th September 1945, Officers of a prisoner-of-war liaison team being transferred from "HMAS Quiberon" to"HMS Colossus" by bo'sun's chair during heavy seas

  (art) Made by: Morris, James 1945-09-15

  image: a seascape showing a man being transferred from a destroyer to a battleship in a bosun's chair, above high seas threatening to engulf the smaller vessel. A row of sailors are shown standing on destroyer's deck, pulling the chair across.