Title
Allied Victory Parade at Scotts Road
Year/Period
12 September 1945
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: L:10.8 x W:8.4 cm
Accession No.
2001-00099
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Harold Gresly-Grey
The Japanese Occupation in Singapore officially ended with the formal surrender ceremony held in the Municipal Building (present-day City Hall) on 12 September 1945. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander (Southeast Asia), accepted the Japanese surrender by General Itagaki Seishirō at the event. A grand Allied Victory Parade was held following the surrender to celebrate the occasion and remind the local populace that their former colonial masters had returned.
