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Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Changi Murals
Labels:
Changi Murals,
FEPOW,
Selarang Barracks,
Stanley Warren,
WW2
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
WW2 heritage markers
There are 20 heritage markers in Singapore relating to the Fall of Singapore in 1942.
For a detailed description of the markers, please see my other blog article here.
For full write up about the individual heritage sites, please go to this link.
For a detailed description of the markers, please see my other blog article here.
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| WW2 heritage trail emblem. |
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| Bukit Batok Hill - Syonan Chureito shrine |
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| The Battle for Pasir Panjang - Bukit Chandu |
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| Indian National Army Monument - Esplanade Park |
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| Jurong-Kanji Defence Lin - Jurong West |
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| Labrador Battery - Labrador Park |
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| Rimau 10 Commando execution site - Reformatory Road (Clementi/Dover Road) |
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| Fort Canning Command Centre - The Battlebox |
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| Japanese Propaganda Department HQ - Cathay Building |
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| Kempeitai East District Branch - YMCA Orchard |
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| The Battle for Bukit Timah - Bukit Timah Hill. |
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| The Causeway - Straits of Johore, Woodlands. |
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| Keppel Harbour |
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| Kranji Beach Battle site |
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| Sook Ching Processing Centre - Chinatown |
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| Seletar Airfield - RAF Seletar |
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| Force 136 - Lornie Road. |
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| Ponggol Beach Massacre site - Ponggol Point |
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| Sarimbun Beach landing site - Lim Chu Kang |
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| Changi Beach massacre site - Changi Point |
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| Serapong Beach Massacre site - Sentosa Island |
For full write up about the individual heritage sites, please go to this link.
Labels:
Fall of Singapore,
Heritage Markers,
WW2
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Japanese Cemetery Park
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| Japanese Cemetery at Chuan Hoe Avenue, Singapore |
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| Graves of "Karayuki-san", 19th century Japanese prostitues in Singapore, for whom the cemetery was originally built. |
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| Large Jizo statue |
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| The cemetery was created from a former rubber plantation in 1891. Six original trees were kept. |
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| War Memorial to the Japanese Army, Navy and Martyrs. |
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| Memorial to 21 WW2 Japanese soldiers. |
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| Donors Plaza |
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| Salyuki Temple Hall |
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| Salyuki Temple Hall |
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| Jizo |
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| Tomb of Baisen, founding Priest |
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| This memorial marks the location where the ashes of 10,000 WW2 Japanese soldiers were buried after removal from the Syonan Chureito that was at Bukit Batok Hill. |
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| WW2 memorial to the Japanese soldiers of Nanyo. |
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| Tomb of Tagajiro Futaki, founder of the Japanese Cemetery. |
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| Grave of the Japanese POW who built the memorials in secret during captivity in Singapore. |
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| Caretaker Zhang whose dedication to maintaining the cemetery was honoured by the Japanese community giving him a burial plot within the cemetery. |
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| Tomb of Field Marshal Terauchi Hisaichi, Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces Southern Army. |
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| Salyuki Temple Hall |
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| Chamber of Bones, where remains are kept prior to burial. Also contains the remains of Yamamoto Otokichi, 1st resident Japanese in Singapore |
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| Tomb of Baisen, founding priest |
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| Six small Jizo statutes. |
Labels:
Japanese Cemetery,
Karayuki-san,
POW,
Singapore,
Terauchi,
WW2
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