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So, on February 15th, 1942, the British commander in Singapore, Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, surrendered to the Japanese. The disastrous outcome of the surrender Even at the time, the decision to surrender by Percival was controversial and openly criticized, as some believed that the British forces could have held out longer.
Apr 24, 2021 · Wavell believed this would be the place to deploy the freshest and strongest troops, the British 18th Division, most of whom arrived on 29 January. Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, the British commander in Malaya, strongly disagreed. He thought the attack was most likely to come down the Johore River and on the eastern side of the island.
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Fall of Singapore. Coordinates: 01°21′09″N 103°46′08″E. Battle of Singapore. Part of the Pacific War of the Second World War. Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival (right), led by Ichiji Sugita, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Commonwealth forces in Singapore, 15 February 1942. Date.
- 8–15 February 1942
- Japanese occupy Singapore
- Japanese victory, Surrender of all Commonwealth forces in Singapore, End of Malayan Campaign
Why. did Singapore fall? On the 15th of February 1942, Lt General Arthur Percival signed the largest surrender in British history at Singapore. The city was supposed to be a fortress, but his force of 85,000 men had been defeated by just 35,000 Japanese troops. Little over 2 months earlier Japanese forces had invaded Northern Malaya.
Jun 25, 2019 · No short summary account of why the abject surrender at Singapore of a British Commonwealth Army of 130,00 to a Japanese Army of less than 30,000 came about can be regarded as entirely satisfactory unless it draws a significant distinction between “defences” and “defenders” – the men and their leaders, especially GOC Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival.
Oct 19, 2022 · ON THE AFTERNOON of Sunday, Feb. 15, 1942, Lieutenant General Arthur Percival left his command HQ just outside Singapore city. Accompanied by an officer with a white flag he went to the HQ of his adversary General Tomoyuki Yamashita where after some negotiation he signed a surrender document.
Mar 16, 2022 · March 16, 2022. On the morning of Friday 13 February 1942, with Japanese forces just a few miles from the city of Singapore, the commander- in-chief of imperial forces, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, called a conference of senior officers. He announced he had received orders to fight to the finish and the defence of the city must continue.
