DUTCH EVACUEES ARRIVE IN BANGKOK FROM JAVA [Allocated Title]

At Bangkok, capital of Siam (Thailand), Dutch civil internees arrive after having been evacuated from Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

Wide shot of the docks at Bangkok with a milling crowd; Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) 270 (?) is berthed. Sailors tying up. Dutch internees (women and children) on deck. Interned Japanese personnel position a wooden gangplank and internees disembark. Internees walk along the quayside to a warehouse to await transport. A Dutch officer directs people. More internees walk to the warehouse; some officers amongst them are possibly wearing 'RAPWI' (Recovery of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees) armbands. Japanese troops carrying luggage. More internees disembark. Two British officers watch; one has parachute wings on his jacket and is probably a gunner, the other probably a brigadier. A Dutch woman talks with a Dutch soldier ('an old friend'). Interior footage of the warehouse; people queue around a Women's Voluntary Service tea van. Woman with tea. Women boarding lorries. Japanese prisoners carry luggage. Lorry departing. Waiting internees. Lorries pass. At their accommodation the internees get down off the lorries. Internees dismounting. A young Dutch girl with her teddy bear. Women walking to their billets. Women and children passing camera. Young boy with a piece of bamboo (?). Civilians drink tea; a soldier stands nearby with a kettle. Close-up of a young boy drinking from a mug which obscures most of his face.

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