Monday 1 October 2012

Daily Mirror 16th of February 1942 - SINGAPORE LOST

Andrew Glynn shared this fascinating front page of the Daily Mirror dated 16th of February 1942 announcing the loss of Singapore - "Singapore Lost: Churchill Warning". Unfortunately for the POWs at the fall of Singapore for many the real war for survival was just about to begin!

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Maurice Wilhiem OConnell said...

hello , i have begun tracing my fathers evacuation from singapore in the early days of the invasion .. he was 5 at the time very vague memories ...his father was a police commissioner cid and stayed behind . all my father remembers was being driven to the quayside and stowed with his brother in a small cabin .they has 27 pieces of luggage so i am assuming they early evacuees.. can you suggest how i might track ships leaving the port on the days from dec 8th heading for colombo .. maurice oconnell jnr

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hello , i have begun tracing my fathers evacuation from singapore in the early days of the invasion .. he was 5 at the time very vague memories ...his father was a police commissioner cid and stayed behind . all my father remembers was being driven to the quayside and stowed with his brother in a small cabin .they has 27 pieces of luggage so i am assuming they early evacuees.. can you suggest how i might track ships leaving the port on the days from dec 8th heading for colombo .. maurice oconnell jnr

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TJ Magsakay said...

1942 Battle of Singapore began this tabloid Daily Express was founded in Calle Primera (now Benavidez Street), Binondo, Manila, Philippines beginning in the 1900s. Daily Express has a sunday edition called Sunday Express in the 1930s and 1940s the Allied Forces began the war