The area of Sime Road has a remarkable history as a former headquarters and camp in World War Two Singapore. It was originally used by British troops, before being taken over by the Japanese military and used as a camp for prisoners of war.

Sime Road Camp is the site of the former combined operational headquarters of the British Army and Royal Air Force during World War II. Located along Sime Road, the 470-acre site was used as an internment camp during the Japanese Occupation.

Over 130,000 Allied civilians - 50,000 men, 42,000 women and 40,000 children - were interned in East Asia during the Second World War. The majority of them were Dutch nationals from the Netherlands East Indies. Internees included colonial officials and their families, employees of European companies and the families of servicemen.

Sime Road Camp was the Combined Operations Headquarters of the British Army and Air Force from early December 1941 to 11 February 1942, until the Japanese advance forced the relocation of the headquarters from its compound in Sime Road to Fort Canning.

2022年11月30日 · Before the war, Sime Road Camp, on the outskirts of Singapore, had been the Headquarters of the British Royal Air Force and then, in early December 1941, it became the Combined Army and Air Force Operations Headquarters Malaya Command—General Percival’s H.Q. –during the brief battles for Malaya and Singapore.

2016年5月1日 · Latest work carried out by Changi Museum staff has revealed that much of the Sime Road Internee and POW camps still exists in the landscape. Much of the architecture visible today is associated with the post war RAF Command Centre, however there is plenty of abandoned platforms and hard standings associated with the original camp.

Following the Fall of Singapore, the site became an internment camp for POWs. Sime Road Camp was located closer to the golf links about a mile from Adam Park on the southern perimeter of the MacRitchie Reservoir. Here the accommodation was not as palatial as Adam Park, being native huts that were scattered and spread over a wide area.

Between 1941 and 1942, the Sime Road Camp, as it was called, was the headquarters of the Royal Air Force, until December 1941. However, after the Japanese invasion of northern Malaya, it became the combined Operational Headquarters of the British Army and the RAF in Singapore.

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It was December, 1943, when the Australian, British and Dutch/Indonesian POWs in “H” Force returned to Singapore from Up Country. Because of a housing shortage in Changi, most of these POWs were shuttled to Sime Road Camp.