Pillar 1
Bukit Chandu is the name of a hill known among local residents living in the Pasir Panjang area as "Opium Hill", probably after the British-owned opium packing plant which was established on the foot of the hill round about 1910. The colonial government also built houses on this hill for its senior officers. These houses were mainly "black-and-white" bungalows designed with a very strong British "Mock Tudor" architectural influence.

Pillar 2
During WW II, the British defence forces used this bungalow to store military and food supplies. On 13th and 14th February 1942, men of the 1st and 2nd Battalion Malay Regiment fought one of the fiercest battles on this hill, defending the island in the last stand before Singapore fell to the Japanese.

Pillar 3
Today, bungalow No. 31K Pepys Road stands alone on Bukit Chandu. Originally there were two smaller bungalows nearby. They were demolished in 1987. The space they once occupied is now a public car park. It was in these two bungalows that many of the men of the Malay Regiment were killed in a greatly outnumbered hand-to-hand battle with the invading enemy forces after the Malay soldiers had run out of ammunition.