Malayan Campaign The Malayan Campaign consisted of a series of battles fought in Malaya between Allied (mainly British Commonwealth) ...

Arthur E. Percival Arthur Ernest Percival (Lieutenant-General) (b. 26 December 1887, Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England–d. 31 January 1966, ...

The Battle of Opium Hill The Battle of Opium Hill on 14 February 1942 at Pasir Panjang was one of the fiercest battles that took place in Singapore ...

Alexandra Hospital massacre Japanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941 and drove the British troops from the Malayan peninsula after just ...

First air raid on Singapore The first air raid on Singapore was carried out by 17 Japanese planes from the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force, launched ...

HMS Repulse The HMS Repulse was a battle cruiser built in 1916 and rehauled between 1936 and 1939. It was sunk off the coast of ...

HMS Prince of Wales Completed in April 1941, the HMS Prince of Wales was sunk off the coast of Kuantan, Malaya, on 10 December 1941 by the ...

Fort Canning Bunker (The Battlebox) Located at 51 Canning Rise, the Fort Canning Bunker (now known as The Battlebox) was built between 1936 and 1941 to ...

Tomoyuki Yamashita Tomoyuki Yamashita (b. 8 November 1885, Osugi Mura, Shikoku, Japan–d. 23 February 1946, Manila, Philippines), was the ...

Malay Regiment The Malay Regiment was an all-Malay military force formed at Port Dickson, Malaya, on 1 March 1933 under the command ...

Japanese surrender The Japanese surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur on board an American battleship, Missouri, at Tokyo Bay at 9 am ...

Dalforce Dalforce was a volunteer army formed by the local Chinese community to resist the Japanese invasion during the battle ...

Syonan Jinja The Syonan Jinja (Light of the South Shrine) was a Shinto shrine built to commemorate the Japanese soldiers who died ...

Bukit Batok Memorial The Bukit Batok Memorial, which consisted of the Syonan Chureito and British Memorial Cross, was built during the Japanese ...

Kempeitai The Kempeitai was Japan’s military police force in its occupied territories during World War II (1942–45). Specially ...

Selarang Barracks Selarang Barracks was built between 1936 and 1938 to house an infantry battalion. During the Japanese Occupation (1942–45), ...

Ford Motor Company of Malaya (Ford Malaya) Ford Malaya was founded in 1926 to directly control Ford operations in Malaya. It set up a full-fledged assembly plant ...

Sime Road Camp Sime Road Camp is the site of the former combined operational headquarters of the British Army and Royal Air Force during ...

Force 136 (Operation Gustavus in Malaya) Force 136 in Malaya was part of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret service organisation active ...

Oversea Chinese Association The Oversea Chinese Association (OCA), or 昭南岛华侨协会, was established in March 1942 during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore ...

British Military Hospital The British Military Hospital (BMH) was established in 1938 by the British Armed Forces, serving as the principal hospital ...

Sembawang Naval Base The Sembawang Naval Base was built by the British government during the 1920s and 30s. Opened in 1938, the base was ...

Johor Battery Built in the late 1930s, the Johore Battery was the main artillery battery of the British coastal artillery defence ...

Operation Sook Ching Operation Sook Ching was a Japanese military operation aimed at purging or eliminating anti-Japanese elements from the ...

Lieutenant Adnan Saidi Adnan Saidi (b. 1915, Selangor, Malaysia–d. 1942, Singapore), a lieutenant of the Malay Regiment’s 1st Battalion, died ...

Pasir Panjang Named after a long stretch of sandy beach along the southwestern coastline of Singapore, the Pasir Panjang area developed ...

Kent Ridge Park Kent Ridge Park is a 47-hectare public park located in southwestern Singapore, on Vigilante Drive off South Buona Vista ...

Endau Settlement Endau Settlement was a 300,000-acre agricultural settlement set up at Endau, in the Malayan state of Johor during the ...

Former Ford Factory The Former Ford Factory, located at 351 Upper Bukit Timah Road, was the site where British forces officially surrendered ...

Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force The Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force (SSVAF) was created on 25 March 1936 with the goal of assisting the Royal ...

Alexandra Hospital Alexandra Hospital officially opened in July 1940 as the British Military Hospital to provide medical facilities for ...

Civilian War Memorial The Civilian War Memorial is a monument dedicated to civilians who perished during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore ...

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army The Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a group of resistance fighters in Malaya, organised by the Malayan ...

River Valley Road/Havelock Road Camp During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945, two prisoner-of-war camps were located in the area bounded ...

Fort Siloso Fort Siloso, located on the northwestern tip of Sentosa Island, was built in the 1880s on Mount Siloso to aid in protecting ...

1915 Singapore Mutiny In the midst of World War I, on 15 February 1915, the Right Wing (Rajput) of the 5th Light Infantry (Indian Army) which ...

Seletar Camp Seletar Camp was formerly the site of the largest British Royal Air Force (RAF) base in the Far East. Plans for the ...

Grow More Food Campaign The Grow More Food Campaign was started during the Japanese Occupation to place a check on inflation and to prepare ...

Bahau settlement Bahau was an agricultural settlement established during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942–45) at Bahau in the ...