The Battle Box, Canning
Nine metres below ground is what the remains of the subterranean command centre of the British Headquarters in the Malayan Campaign in World War Two
The museum commemorates and recreates the decision to surrender by General Percival on 15th February 1942, which resulted in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese.
The wax figures aided by animation and sound, paint a very good picture of the events of the Surrender and what it would have been like to live and work here.
The museum has just re-opened after renovation (2016), and Trish missed the official opening by a few days, but these photos – taken previously – indicate how fascinating it is and how life-like the figures are. Not to be missed.
![In conference at Battlebox HQ Control](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-In-conference-at-Battle-Box-HQ-Control-1024x682.jpg)
![](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-the-office-at-theBattle-Box-1024x682.jpg)
![WW2 exhibit at Battlebox HQ Control, 12 January 2011](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-WW2-exhibit-at-Battle-Box-HQ-Control-12-Jan.-2011-1024x682.jpg)
![WW2 exhibit at Battlebox HQ Control](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-WW2-exhibit-at-Battle-Box-HQ-Control-1024x682.jpg)
![WW2 exhibit at the Battlebox](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-WW2-exhibit-at-the-Battle-Box--1024x682.jpg)
![An excellent model of Brigadier Curtis at work](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore.-An-excellent-model-of-Brigadier-Curtis-at-work-in-the-Battle-Box--1024x682.jpg)
![A serious situation](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore.-The-Battle-Box.-A-serious-situation-1024x682.jpg)
![Position plotting](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore.Position-plotting-at-the-Battle-Box--1024x682.jpg)
![A photo of Brigadier Arthur Drury Curtis](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-Battle-Box.-A-photo-of-Brigadier-Arthur-Drury-Curtis-1024x682.jpg)
![WW2 exhibit](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singapore-WW2-exhibit-at-Battle-Box-giving-directions--682x1024.jpg)
Kranji War Memorial, Woodlands Road (Kranji Station)
Some of the following information is taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission information leaflet.
In this beautifully maintained cemetery, 14 miles from Singapore City, there are 4,500 graves of men of the Allied Forces who died here during the Japanese occupation.
(Australia, Britain, Canada, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore).
The Singapore Memorial bears the names of 24,000 casualties of the Commonwealth land and air forces who died during the Second World War but have no known grave.
These include prisoners-of-war from Changi, some who worked on the ‘Death Railway’, or in other campaigns, who died while being transported elsewhere.
The airmen died during operations over the whole of southern and eastern Asia and in surrounding seas.
![Entrance to Kranji Military Cemetery, 11 January 2011](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore-Kranji-Military-Cemetery11-Jan.-2011-1024x682.jpg)
![Midge at Kranji Military Cemetery beside the distressing statistics](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Midge-at-Kranji-Military-Cemetery-beside-the-distressing-statistics.--1024x683.jpg)
Inscription: On the walls of this memorial are recorded the names of twenty four thousand soldiers and airmen of many races, united in service to the British Crown, who gave their lives in Malaya and neighbouring lands and sea and in the air over southern and eastern Asia and the Pacific, but to whom the fortunes of war denied the customary rites accorded to their comrades in death. They died for all free men (in several languages).
![Two 'Z Force STwo 'Z Force Special Unit men](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Two-Z-Force-Special-Unit-men-1024x682.jpg)
![Kranji's Memorial Cross](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kranjis-memorial-Cross-1024x682.jpg)
![Kranji. War Commission plaque](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kranji.-War-Commission-plaque-1024x682.jpg)
![Kranji Military Cemetery setting in 2011](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore-Kranji-Military-Cemetery-setting-2011-1024x682.jpg)
![Some Australian graves in 2011](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore-Kranji-Military-Cemetery-some-Australian-graves-2011-1024x682.jpg)
![An Australian sapper](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/An-Australian-sapper-1024x682.jpg)
![An honour wall to those who perished in captivity](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/An-honour-wall-to-those-who-perished-in-captivity-1024x682.jpg)
![An honour wall to the Indian soldiers](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kranji.An-honour-wall-to-the-Indian-soldiers--1024x682.jpg)
![Board naming countries involved](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore.-Kranji.-Board-naming-countries-involved-1024x682.jpg)
The Gurkha section
![The Gurkha graves of 1942](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Close-up-of-the-graves-of-men-of-the-Gurkha-Rifles-1942--1024x682.jpg)
![Gurkha officers and men and their wives and children buried elsewhere](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Kranji-Military-Cemetery.-This-plaque-honours-Gurkha-officers-and-men-and-their-wives-and-children-who-are-buried-elsewhere-1024x682.jpg)
![The setting for more recent Gurkha graves taken in 2011.](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore-Kranji-Military-Cemetery.-The-setting-for-more-recent-Gurkha-graves-2011-1024x682.jpg)
![These Gurkha graves are from 1953](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/These-Gurkha-graves-are-from-1953-1024x682.jpg)
![The Indian honour wall](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kranji.-The-Indian-honour-wall-1024x682.jpg)
![The Gurkha Regiment headstones in beautiful surroundings](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-Gurkha-Regiment-dead-lie-in-beautiful-surroundings-1024x682.jpg)
![The Gurkha plaque's position](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-Gurkha-plaques-position-1024x682.jpg)
![Ross Bastiaan's map](https://battlefieldwanderers.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Singapore.Kranji.-Ross-Bastiaans-map-full-size.jpg)
See also Singapore Naval and Maritime.