Year 1942

Causeway Blown Apart

Saturday, 31st January 1942

The British Soldiers blew a 64-metre wide gap in the Singapore-Malaysia Causeway in an attempt to keep the Japanese Soldiers from entering Singapore. After the last British and Commonwealth troops to leave Malaya, the order to blow up the Causeway was given and at 0815hrs. Singapore's link with the Malay Peninsula was broken.


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