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The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation (馬来作戦, Maree Sakusen), was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the Second World War. It was dominated by land battles between British Commonwealth army units and the Imperial Japanese ...
An expedition was mounted October 1946 by the Number 46 War Graves Unit to recover and rebury all personnel they could locate. The main national war memorial is the National Monument in Kuala Lumpur. This memorial commemorates those who served in both World War Two and the Malayan Emergency that followed the war. Independence movement
Batu Lintang camp. Coordinates: 1°31′51″N 110°20′53″E. Batu Lintang camp. Kuching, Sarawak. Aerial view of part of Batu Lintang camp, on or after 29 August 1945. In the foreground is the Roman Catholic priests' compound. The central open area is one of the parade grounds; beyond that is the main enclosure containing the camps of the ...
Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, an island, and British North Borneo; while the remainder, and bulk, of the island, was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch East Indies.
4 September – WW2: Japanese forces in Malaya surrendered to the Allies at Penang, signing Penang surrender document on HMS Nelson. 12 September – British Military Administration (BMA) was installed in Kuala Lumpur. 17 October – Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya was established. Late 1945 – Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) was established.
Events. Below, the events of World War II have the "WW2" acronym. 6–8 January – WW2: Battle of Slim River. 11 January – WW2: Kuala Lumpur falls to the Imperial Japanese Army. 14 January – WW2: Battle of Gemas. 14–22 January – WW2: Battle of Muar. 23 January – WW2: Parit Sulong Massacre. 26–27 January – WW2: Battle off Endau.
The British Military Administration (BMA) was the interim administrator of British Malaya from August 1945, the end of World War II, to the establishment of the Malayan Union in April 1946. The BMA was under the direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten. The administration had the dual function of ...
Coordinates: 5°53′19″N 118°2′50″E. Layout of the POW camp. The Sandakan camp, also known as Sandakan POW Camp ( Malay: Kem Tawanan Perang Sandakan ), was a prisoner-of-war camp established during World War II by the Japanese in Sandakan in the Malaysian state of Sabah. This site has gained notoriety as the Sandakan Death Marches ...