House debates
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Statements by Members
Fall of Singapore: 80th Anniversary
1:44 pm
Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel) | Hansard source
Today we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the fall of Singapore during the Second World War, one of the worst military disasters in Australian British history. Some 15,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Japanese when British and Commonwealth forces surrendered on 15 February 1942.
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