ENTRY TO KYAUKTAN AND LIBERATED ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR AT RANGOON JAIL [Allocated Title]

Troops of 71st Brigade, 26th Indian Division, XV Corps enter Kyauktan (south west of Rangoon) and recently liberated Allied prisoners are seen at Rangoon jail (gaol).

Men push a bogged lorry out of mud. Troops of 1st Battalion 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles marching into Kyauktan. Local people watching the troops march by. View looking over a large crowd of civilians in Rangoon. The crowd waves and applauds. At Rangoon jail a group of newly liberated Allied prisoners of war pose for the camera. In the background the message 'Japs Gone' can be seen on the roof of one of the prison buildings. One of the group unsheaths a Japanese sword, presumably dumped by a Japanese soldier when the prison was abandoned, and waves it triumphantly. The officer commanding Allied prisoners at Rangoon jail, Wing Commander Lionel Hudson, Royal Australian Air Force, and formerly commander of RAF 82 Squadron, seen with his adjutant. Close-up of the thickly bearded Wing Commander Hudson. Prisoners receiving a ration of rice. Some of the men are naked except for loincloths and clearly severely emaciated. A Union flag, previously used only for burials, flying above the jail. Chinese prisoners of war. Indian prisoners behind a barred gate. Indian prisoners, one of them a turban-wearing Sikh, standing close to camera and looking relieved to be free. View of the prison's main gates with a number of former prisoners standing outside. One them is armed with a rifle and bayonet.

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