Title
Japanese photograph of damaged causeway
Year/Period
1942
Region
Malaysia and Singapore
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: (Mount) 26.3 x 18.7 cm,
Image size: 19.9 x 14.4 cm
Image size: 19.9 x 14.4 cm
Accession No.
2022-00454
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Lim Shaobin
On 31 January 1942, Allied engineers blew up the Causeway that connected Singapore to mainland Malaysia to delay the advancing Japanese army during World War Two. This photograph shows the section that was demolished, with a column of smoke above Singapore rising in the background. It was taken from the Johore side of the Causeway by correspondents of the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
