"The fall of Singapore will over-shadow everything else so far in the war except perhaps the British retreat at Dunkirk after the fall of France," said G. Nye Steiger, visiting lecturer of Far ...

Seventy-two years after the fall of Singapore, and the stories of survivors as well as pictures of the emaciated, raggedly clothed columns of half-dead European and Australian prisoners of war ...

It was 75 years ago that Singapore, the island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula that had been a key strategic outpost of Britain's colonial empire, fell to invading Japanese troops.

A small group of Australian World War II veterans are in Singapore to commemorate 70 years since the fall of Singapore.

Stories categorised in 'Fall of Singapore 1942'. These stories may contain references to other themes. In 1934 Fay started her education with the Sisters of the Holy Child in Mayfield, Sussex. In ...

At a new World War II exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fall of Singapore, a poignant display of more than 200 personal artefacts recovered from a burial site underscored the scale of the ...

THOMAS ORITI: The fall of Singapore is an important part of our national story but it's never had the same prominence as the Gallipoli campaign for example and in fact you've called the civilians ...

THE SINGAPORE GRIP on ITV is based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by J.G Farrell and was adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright Sir Christopher Hampton. The series is set ...

Stories categorised in 'Fall of Singapore 1942'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Fortunately, although there was no hope of getting the car back on the road, Pat and the ...