| No |
Acc
# |
Date |
Source |
Captions |
| 1 |
133048 |
February 1942 |
David Ng |
British troops marching along Serangoon Road after the British
Surrender. |
| 2 |
142806 |
February 1942 |
Chua Koon Chuan |
General Yamashita Tomoyuki, Commander of the Japanese Imperial Army. He was nicknamed the Tiger of Malaya because of his swift and decisive conquest of Malaya and Singapore in just 70 days. |
| 3 |
27040 |
15 February 1942 |
National Archives of Singapore |
Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival, the General Officer Commanding Malaya at the Surrender Talks with Lieutenant-Colonel Sugita Ichiji. |
| 4 |
27047 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
Japanese
Troops storming into Johore Bahru locomotive. |
| 5 |
27049 |
15 February 1942 |
National Archives of Singapore |
British surrender party arriving at Ford Motor Company. |
| 6 |
27105 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
General Yamashita Tomoyuki, Commander of the Japanese Imperial Army. |
| 7 |
27108 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival,
the General Officer Commanding Malaya |
| 8 |
27124 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
Singapore saw frequent air raids in January 1942, sometimes several times a day and sometimes coming in at regular times in broad daylight. After only 10 days of fighting, the Japanese had control of the skies and seas around Singapore. |
| 9 |
27131 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
Indian Regiment troops in Malaya. |
| 10 |
27305 |
1941 |
Imperial War Museum |
Soldiers of Manchester Regiment building beach defenses. |
| 11 |
39424 |
1942 |
Imperial War Museum |
The 1st and 2nd Battalion of the Malay
Regiment, together with the 2nd Loyals Regiment defended the western and southern parts of Singapore from 8th to 14th February 1942. At the height of the battle for Singapore, the Malay Regiment defended the Pasir Panjang Ridge. It was at Bukit Chandu (Opium Hill) that the soldiers fought its last stand in a hand-to-hand combat when the last few men ran out of ammunition. |
| 12 |
62998 |
1940 |
Watanabe Collection |
The Japanese tactic of assault on coastal positions such as Batu Pahat
and Muar River, made use of numerous boats captured in Penang. This enabled troops to advance quickly down the coast past British lines. |
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