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Churchill called the fall of Singapore to the Japanese "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". [159] Churchill's physician Lord Moran wrote: The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister. How came 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese?
The fall of Singapore was the largest surrender of British-led forces in history. [71] Japanese newspapers triumphantly declared the victory as deciding the general situation of the war. [ 72 ]
The main army which took Malaya, the 25th Army, was redeployed to other fronts such as the Philippines and New Guinea shortly after the fall of Singapore. The Kempeitai (the Japanese military police ), which was the dominant occupation unit in Singapore, committed numerous atrocities towards the common people.
Statue of Stamford Raffles, the first British governor of Singapore This is a timeline of Singaporean history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Singapore and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Singapore. See also the list of years in Singapore. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy ...
The fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 brought under the Japanese occupation approximately 45,000 Indian PoWs. The surrender of these PoWs were accepted by Major Fujiwara Iwaichi, separately from that of British PoWs, on the morning of 17th at Farrer Park Field.
The fall of Bukit Chandu allowed Japan access to the Alexandra area, indirectly contributing to the Alexandra Hospital massacre. Adnan Saidi is described by many Singaporeans and Malaysians today as a hero for his actions on Bukit Chandu – he encouraged his men not to surrender and instead fight to the death. [ 11 ]
A rush to tear down and redevelop buildings in Singapore has prompted calls to conserve aging properties that symbolize the country's recent history and economic rise. The land-starved island is ...
Sook Ching [d] was a mass killing that occurred from 18 February to 4 March 1942 in Singapore after it fell to the Japanese.It was a systematic purge and massacre of 'anti-Japanese' elements in Singapore, with the Singaporean Chinese particularly targeted by the Japanese military during the occupation.