On this day: the fall of Singapore in 1942

Suffolk Regiment troops held at gunpoint by Japanese infantry.

The Battle of Singapore ended on the 15^th of February 1942, when Singapore fell to the Japanese.

Japanese soldiers shooting Sikh prisoners

Japanese air raid on the 8^th of February 1942.

Fighting in Singapore, at the time a major base for British soldiers, began on the 8^th of February.

Hawker Hurricane of No. 232 Squadron RAF shot down on 8 February.

The fall of Singapore was the largest fall of British-led troops in history, with some 80 000 British, Australian and Indian troops becoming prisoners of war.

Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival walks under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Allied forces

Many Australian and British soldiers died in captivity in the infamous Changi Prison.