Singapore 1942

I have set up this site to support my research related to the events and personal stories concerning the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Specifically my interest relates to the evacuation of civilians and military personnel from Keppel harbour where most of the evacuation ships left from in the last days before Singapore capitulated to the Japanese. http://www.twitter.com/singapore1942 You can contact me on davidahope@gmail.com

Friday, 19 November 2010

Stanley Saddington Ex RAF, Tien Kwang Survivor & former POW

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While I was in the UK recently I had the good fortune to meet up with 90 year old Stanley Saddington. What an amazing man! Stanley was 21 wh...
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Friday, 12 November 2010

Remembrance Day Singapore 2010

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It was a wet 11th of Nov 2010 but a special service at the Singapore Cenotaph with approximately 50 people in attendance and a special tribu...
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Deadly Secrets - the Singapore Raids 1942-45

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In February 1942, when Australian Bill Reynolds escaped from Singapore in a battered Japanese fishing boat, he had no idea that his nondescr...
Monday, 8 November 2010

British 18th Division in Singapore

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Due to problems with the guest book attached to the website I have only just been able to recover some old posts and apologies for delayed r...
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Saturday, 6 November 2010

Maurice O'Connell from Ireland writes

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My mother, baby brother and I were put on a ship by my father VERY EARLY in December 1941 after the Japanese invasion. Possibly 10th Decembe...
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The Malayan Volunteers Group

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There were many Malayan volunteers who played a critical role in Singapore's defence prior to the fall and who were killed or captured a...
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Amazing story related to the HMS Kuala sinking off Pompong Island

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I came across this amazing story about HMS Kuala sinking survivor Patsy Li that was published in the Australian Hobart Mercury newspaper aft...
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Sunday, 24 October 2010

End of the British Empire

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Dr Duncan Anderson talks about how he fall of Singapore was disasterous for British prestige in the Far East and represented the end of the ...

Prof Richard Overy on the fall of Singapore

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Prof Richard Overy talks about how the rapid Japanese conquests in early 1942 were in part made possible because European powers were preocc...

After the Surrender 1942

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Interview with Lance-Corporal John Wyatt on his internment after the Singapore surrender. Interesting footage of 1000s of POWs in a large gr...
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