Watch the historic moment when the first of the British troops departed leaving India to her new independence. #tbt
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00:00The departure of the first contingent of British troops from the new Dominion of India was an historic event.
00:05The Governor General, Lord Mountbatten, was on Ballard Pier, Bombay, and here he inspected Guards of Honour from the three Indian services,
00:13mounted as a tribute to the work of the British services in India.
00:19Lord Mountbatten then addressed men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Norfolk's and RAF personnel,
00:24speaking, as he remarked, in three different capacities, as the Constitutional Governor General, as the ex-Viceroy, and as the former Supremo of South East Asia Command.
00:34After the speech, the men embarked on the Georgic.
00:39Lord Mountbatten himself went aboard for last farewells to the men and their families.
00:44He remains as Governor General at the invitation of the Indians themselves, a fine testimony to the straightforward manner in which he's carried out his difficult job.
00:53As Lord Mountbatten said, with the departure of the British forces, the outward and visible sign of British rule in India disappears,
01:01and its place is taken by something much more valuable, a really great friendship between the British and the Indians.