Collection: HODGKINSON FRANK (COLONEL)

Photographs taken or collated by Colonel Frank Hodgkinson, head of the British Army Film Unit in Burma during and after the Second World War. Images include scenes during the Indian partition of 1947 including approximately nine-hundred Muslim refugees boarding a train at Ambala railway station, India en route to Pakistan (29th October 1947); similarly the march of approximately 75,000 non-Muslim refugees walking or carried by bullock and cart from Pakistan to India, scenes in West Punjab territory of the Indian Military Prison in Multan acting as the holding camp for the non-Muslim transit camp; West Punjab Police officers at the Dewan Tulsidas School Camp at Dera Gazi Khan; Lady Mountbatten amongst some of the 20,000 Hindu evacuees in the Punjab scouts camp at Lyallpur; the bridge over the Indus River. Further images, including some denoting their 'official Governemnt of Burma' status, inlude scenes such as Royal Navy photographers Lt J E Russell (still photographer) and Sub-Lt Frank Worth (film cameraman) on assignment accompanied by Japanese prisoners of war acting as guards / military policemen; General Stopford meeting Bogyoke (General) Aung San; scenes following the assassination of Bogyoke Aung San including his body, the lying in state of him along with those of the six members of his cabinet who were assassinated on 19 July 1947, the vast funeral procession; captured Burmese nationalists held in a barbed wire compound and the array of weapons they were captured with; scenes at a 'listening post' / communications centre manned by members of the Burmese RNVR possibly at Mandalay; a visit to Lord Louis Mountbatten at G.H.Q.by prominent Rangoon citizens for victory festivities; local scenes and studies of differing ethnic groups in Burma.