Photograph of Rangoon (now Yangon) Rail Station with the Royal Train carrying Prince Edward in the foreground. Outside of the train stand officials dressed in white uniforms. Two rows of soldiers forming a Guard of Honour, stand facing the train in front of a pagoda.     

On the 8th January 1922, Prince Edward of Wales arrived in Rangoon, Myanmar. He was greeted by the Lieutenant Governor and then proceeded to Government House.

On October 26 1921, Edward, Prince of Wales left Portsmouth to begin a tour of the Indian Subcontinent and Japan that covered 41,000 miles, lasting 8 months. Prince Edward spent four months in India, travelling from Bombay to Calcutta and then from Madras to Karachi. As the British Empire's Ambassador, the Prince visited India on behalf of his father King George V, to thank the nation for the essential role it had played during the First World War. Moreover, the visit was intended to strengthen links between Britain and its Empire at a time of increasing calls for Indian independence.