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Landscape format. [Children walking with their hands behind their backs beside wrought-iron fence with buildings beyond across the street].

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Half-plate. Chinese children fan drill.

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Owing to its multi-racial nature, Singapore has a diverse culture influenced by its three major ethnic groups - the Chinese, Malays and Indians. Schoolchildren have a choice of learning music and dance as part of their extra-curricular activities.

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This is a copy of a diary describing Hay’s active service during the Malayan campaign, beginning with his joining the battery in mid-Dec. 1941. He saw action at Kuala Selangor and during the siege of Singapore. After its surrender, he escaped by ship on 16 Feb., reaching Sumatra on 21 Feb. and then Sri Lanka on 1 Mar. 1942. See RCMS 103/12/3 for another account of the same escape written by H.R. Oppenheim (21 sheets).

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A plan created by the Camp Fatigue Officer, Hugh Bryson, as the basis for discussion should the movement of the camp ever become necessary (3 copies; 4 sheets).

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292 x 180 mm. Showing a dragon dance in progress on the Padang in Singapore on National Day.

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Half-plate (landscape format).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

Scope and Contents Education in Singapore is tailored to meet the needs of the people as well as the economy. It caters for the inclinations, aptitudes and interests of pupils by streaming them into academic studies, vocational training or apprenticeship schemes.The school curriculum stresses bilingualism (English plus mother tongue is compulsory), science, mathematics, moral and social values and extra-curricular activities.There are 297 primary schools, 116 secondary schools, 22 full schools...

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A series of photographs showing various aspects of education and science in Singapore.

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The file contains a copy of the Colony of Singapore, Department of Education, 'Ten Year Programme'. It also includes the transcripts of two Radio Malaya broadcasts and a newsreel discussing education, and a series of news cuttings relating to Frisby (80 sheets).

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153 x 104 mm. Showing Edward Heath talking to Lee Kwan Yew during a visit to Singapore

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207 x 133 mm. View of Empress Place, Singapore, showing Victoria Memorial Hall, The Cricket Club, and Obelisk.

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141 x 84 mm. Showing the Grand Hotel de l'Europe emblazoned along its length with the legend God Bless the Prince of Wales. Situated on the Esplanade near the Victoria Memorial Hall (part of which is visible at the left of the print), the hotel was established in 1857 and occupied the same site until the building was demolished in 1936. (Makepeace, ii, 197 and Tyers, p. 89). But see Turnbull (1975, p. 47) who dates the naming of the hotel somewhat later.

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81 x 54 mm. Showing Evan (no further identification) seated at the centre of an Indian group, probably in Singapore.

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81 x 54 mm.

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145 x 94 mm. View looking across Commercial Square, Singapore, with Exchange buildings at left and Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at right.

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Half-plate. With Birdsnest Fern, Botanical Gardens : Singapore.

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149 x 90 mm. A view from the edge of the jungle looking towards the sea, with wooden houses raised on stilts on the foreshore.

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196 x 142 mm. Showing a Chinese fortune teller (? or calligrapher) squatting behind a mat laid out with various texts written in Chinese script.

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75 x 53 mm. Showing P.A.B. McKerron walking along a path, with a military escort.

Scope and Contents 75 x 53 mm. Showing a group of officers gathered for the funeral of Lim Boh Seng. A former student of Raffles Institution and Hong Kong University, Lim Boh Seng had taken such an active part in anti-Japanese activities that the authorities had considered banishing him. At the Governor's request he formed a Chinese liaison committee for civil defence and this committee proved to be the only body capable of recruiting labour during the Japanese bombardment of Singapore. Lim Boh Seng escaped...

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155 x 109 mm. Showing McKerron, Foulger and Regester standing at attention beside the wreaths laid in front of the grave.

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155 x 110 mm. Showing P.A.B. McKerron standing at attention with a group of Chinese Malayans in front of the wreaths laid outside.