Dennis, Ruth and Lynette

Wei Chao's Project on 12 Heroes during WWII in Singapore.
Due date : 1st April

Dennis, Ruth and Lynette

The Robert family led a happy and peaceful life in Singapore before the war. During the war, they were separated by the Japanese after the invasion.

Citation : Source taken from Museum's trip worksheet.

Tsuchikane Tominosuke

Tsuchikane Tominosuke

Tsuchikane Tominosuke was a regular soldier invading Malaya who has lots of humanity in him but forced to kill innocent people. He was the Japanese army sergeant who served the Imperial Guards Division and Japanese military advance. He survived during the war.

Citation : Source taken from Museum trip's worksheet.

Chia Chor Seng

Chia Chor Seng

( Syonan-To 1942 - 1945 )

Force 136 was an Allied Resistance force that largely consisted of Chinese volunteers. Who infilltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. Force 136 worked in tandem with the MPAJA in their common struggle against the Japanese army in Japanese-occupied Malaya.

Citation : Source taken from Museum trip's worksheet.

Rasamma

Rasamma

Rasamma is a young female volunteer soldier of the INA's. All-female Rani of Jhansi ( Queen of Jhansi ) Regiment.

The accessories were part of an INA uniform belonging to Rasamma Navarednam, a young volunteer female  soldier of the INA's all-female Rani of Jhansi ( Queen of Jhansi ) Regiment.

Citation : Source taken from Museum trip's worksheet.

Romusha

Romusha

Romusha were forced laborers during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia in World War II. The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between four to 10 million. Romusha were forced to work by the Japanese military. About 270,000 of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia. However, only 52,000 were repatriated to Java.

The Japanese military made very extensive use of such forced labor during the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway during 1942-43. The death rate among Romusha, from atrocities, starvation-diet and disease far outstripped the death rate among Allied prisoners of war. About half the forced laborers engaged on the railroad construction died.

Citation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romusha

Arthur Percival

Arthur Percival

His Early Life

Arthur Ernest Percival was born on 26 December 1887 in Aspenden Lodge, Aspenden near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, England, the second son of Alfred Reginald and Edith Percival. His father was the Land Agent of the Hamel's Park estate and his mother came from a Lancashire cotton family.

World War II 

He was a British Army officer and World War I veteran. He built a successful military career during the interwar period but is most noted for his involvement in World War II, when he commanded the forces of the British Commonwealth during the Battle of Malaya and the subsequent Battle of Singapore.

Percival's surrender to the invading Imperial Japanese Army force is the largest capitulation in British military history, and it permanently undermined the United Kingdom's prestige as an imperial power in the Far East.[1][2] However, current knowledge about the years of under-funding of Malaya's defences and the inexperienced, under-equipped nature of the Commonwealth army has enabled certain commentators to hold a more sympathetic view of his command.

Citation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Percival

Mamoru Shinozaki

Mamoru Shinozaki

His Early Life

Shinozaki was born in Japan in February 1908. His father owned a Fukuoka coal-mine and was often away on business. He was raised largely by his grandmother, who had desired him to become a monk. She arranged for him to stay at a Buddhist temple for a year at the age of six, but his father opposed the idea. As a student, he was keen in socialism, reading in secret the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, a serious offence in those days which got him expelled from his Kyoto high school. After spending a year as a ronin he entered Meiji University to study journalism. Upon graduating in 1931, he found employment as a reporter with the Dōmei News Agency. In 1934 he was posted to Shanghai, then to Nanking, and finally to Hankou, from where he was recalled. He went on to join the Japanese Foreign Ministry as a press attache in Berlin, and later reassigned to Singapore in October 1938.

During World War II

Shinozaki Mamoru (February 1908 – early 1990s), a former Japanese diplomat was convicted and jailed by the British for spying for Japan before the Second World War. He was later credited as the "Japanese Schindler" for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians by his liberal issue of personal safety passes and the creation of safe havens during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. He was also instrumental for being the key prosecution witness during the Singapore War Crimes Trial between 1946 and 1948. A book he wrote after the war called Syonan.

Citation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinozaki_Mamoru