NAM.1989-04-116-3050-1

6 photographs of Singapore, 1945. Subjects include Mountbatten reading the ‘Surrender Terms’ on the steps of the Council Chamber, with Gen Sir William Slim, to the left, and Lt Gen Raymond Wheeler, US Army, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, to the right; Japanese delegates led by Gen Itagaki approaching the Council Chamber; Gen Itagaki, GOC Japanese 7th Area Army, Singapore, representing FM Count Hisaichi Terauchi Supreme Commander Japanese Expeditionary Force; general view of Changi Jail; entrance to Changi Jail; Japanese officers being searched after having surrendered their swords. From a collection of 563 loose photographs from the Burma Memorial Collection of Maj James Allan; associated with World War Two, Far East (1941-1945).

World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)