Times of Malaya when Pioneers, Planters, Miners, Civil Servants, Merchants, Police and the Military - both regulars and volunteers, during British Colonisation period, lived in the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang and the Federated Malay States of Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan including Unfederated States of Johore, Terengganu, Kelantan & Perlis. From 1786, the arrival of Francis Light; 1819, landing of Stamford Raffles with the Honourable East India Company & the administration of the Straits Settlements by British India through to being The Crown Colony in 1867 leading to WW1 and WW2 in Malaya. The Times of Malayan Emergency to the independence of Malaya in 1957 and the Republic of Singapore in 1965.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Parit Sulong Memorial, Johore

The old buildings on the west side of the bridge where the Japanese herded the wounded allied soldiers. They were machine gunned at the back of the building next to the big tree on the left of the building.

The new bridge built in 1997 to replace the original one. View from the east side of the bridge

The Parit Sulong Memorial located in the park on the west side of the new bridge

A brief on the massacre of the Allied soldiers

Brief of the third VC receipient, Lt Col Charles Anderson, 2/19th AIF Battalion during the Battle of Malaya. The first VC receipient was Squadron Leader Arthur Scarf, RAF (posthumously) and second was Brig Gen Arthur Edward Cumming, 2/12th Frontier Force Regiment

Parit Sulong Memorial commemorates the Battle of Muar and the massacre of 150 wounded Australian and Indian soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2. The site is located on the east side of the new bridge that was built in 1997 to replace the original one that was built in 1930.

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