Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts

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.

WW2 heritage trail emblem.


Bukit Batok Hill - Syonan Chureito shrine

The Battle for Pasir Panjang - Bukit Chandu

Indian National Army Monument - Esplanade Park

Jurong-Kanji Defence Lin - Jurong West

Labrador Battery - Labrador Park

Rimau 10 Commando execution site - Reformatory Road (Clementi/Dover Road)
Fort Canning Command Centre - The Battlebox

Japanese Propaganda Department HQ - Cathay Building

Kempeitai East District Branch - YMCA Orchard
The Battle for Bukit Timah - Bukit Timah Hill.
The Causeway - Straits of Johore, Woodlands.

Keppel Harbour

Kranji Beach Battle site

Sook Ching Processing Centre - Chinatown

Seletar Airfield - RAF Seletar
Force 136 - Lornie Road.
Ponggol Beach Massacre site - Ponggol Point
Sarimbun Beach landing site - Lim Chu Kang

Changi Beach massacre site - Changi Point

Serapong Beach Massacre site - Sentosa Island

For full write up about the individual heritage sites, please go to this link.



Saturday, March 9, 2013

Japanese Cemetery Park

Japanese Cemetery at Chuan Hoe Avenue, Singapore

Graves of  "Karayuki-san", 19th century Japanese prostitues in Singapore, for whom the cemetery was originally built.

Large Jizo statue

The cemetery was created from a former rubber plantation in 1891. Six original trees were kept.

War Memorial to the Japanese Army, Navy and Martyrs.

Memorial to 21 WW2 Japanese soldiers.

Donors Plaza

Salyuki Temple Hall

Salyuki Temple Hall

Jizo


Tomb of Baisen, founding Priest

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.

WW2 memorial to the Japanese soldiers of Nanyo.

Tomb of Tagajiro Futaki, founder of the Japanese Cemetery.

Grave of the Japanese POW who built the memorials in secret during captivity in Singapore.

Caretaker Zhang whose dedication to maintaining the cemetery was honoured by the Japanese community giving him a burial plot within the cemetery.

Tomb of Field Marshal Terauchi Hisaichi, Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces Southern Army.

Salyuki Temple Hall

Chamber of Bones, where remains are kept prior to burial.
Also contains the remains of Yamamoto Otokichi, 1st resident Japanese in Singapore

Tomb of Baisen, founding priest



Six small Jizo statutes.