INDIAN TROOPS TAKE JAPANESE SURRENDER AT FORT CANNING, SINGAPORE [Allocated Title]

With the British reoccupation of Singapore, Japanese troops lay down their arms and march out of Fort Canning.

Indian troops possibly 1st Battalion 17th Dogra Regiment) of 5th Indian Division, in full kit, passing camera. The divisional commander, Major-General Mansergh. Mansergh talking to a British brigadier and another officer over map. On a patch of grass a British officer uproots a Japanese placard and flings it aside; camera tilts up to show a British Union flag flying from a post with sign ‘College Road’. Indian troops, possibly of 2nd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment, led by British and Indian officers, passing; two soldiers carry British flags and one of them a battalion colour of 1st Punjab Regiment. Indian troops passing. A unit of Japanese soldiers, still armed, falling in. One by one they lean their rifles against a wall; their bayonets are already lying on the ground. Indian troops keep watch. An Indian soldier with fixed bayonet. Soldiers leaving a building carrying large sacks (rice?) and dumping them at the roadside. A Japanese officer (three pips on collar) laying his equipment on the ground. Pan from Indian troops on guard to Japanese troops leaving Fort Canning without their arms and pulling hand carts. Fast pan from Japanese troops walking away to Union flags held by Indian colour party. Indian troops falling out.

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