Aerial Photo
PART OF A SERIES OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING SOUTH CENTRAL (EAST TO WEST)
Aerial photo showing Ulu Pandan Camp with the 15 inch gun emplacements of Buona Vista Battery still clearly visible. No. 1 gun is in the camp beside a field. No. 2 gun is near the Ulu Pandan Military cemetery. At the bottom is the Malayan Railway. Between Ulu Pandan and Clemeti Roads, and below Ulu Pandan camp, is a hill called Panan IV or Hill 200 on old maps. On this hill in February 1942, soldiers of the Australian 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion died fighting against the Japanese. The Japanese finally allowed a burial party of the 2/4th from Sime Road POW camp to go to Hill 200 and bury their dead there on 21 December 1942, and 27 bodies were identified and buried.
Aerial photo of Ulu Pandan. Rotate to place the inscription on the right for nearly correct orientation to north. The various landmarks are then as follows. Clementi Road is central, meandering south towards bottom centre; the Ulu Pandan canal flows from the bottom right corner to above centre on the left edge; the Malayan Railway line runs north-south close to the right edge. Also seen is Ulu Pandan Camp with the two 15-inch gun emplacements of Buona Vista Battery visible as small black circles with a white outline. No. 1 gun is in the hill-top camp beside a field, a little left of centre. This is currently a Police KINS Training Camp (2023). No. 2 gun is south-east of there, just to the east of the Ulu Pandan Military cemetery, which was laid out on a grid. Just north of this gun, parallel white lines show part of the former railway siding used to convey the heavy shells; its route is visible almost all the way from the main line, past this gun and terminating at No. 1 gun. The site of No. 2 gun is now occupied by Pine Grove condominium. Just east of No. 1 gun is a hill called Hill 200 in Mukim Pandan IV on old maps. On this hill in February 1942, soldiers of the Australian 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion died fighting against the Japanese. The Japanese finally allowed a burial party of the 2/4th from Sime Road POW camp to go to Hill 200 and bury their dead there on 21 December 1942, and 27 bodies were identified and buried.
Aerial photo of Ulu Pandan. Rotate to place the inscription on the right for nearly correct orientation to north. The various landmarks are then as follows. Clementi Road is central, meandering south towards bottom centre; the Ulu Pandan canal flows from the bottom right corner to above centre on the left edge; the Malayan Railway line runs north-south close to the right edge. Also seen is Ulu Pandan Camp with the two 15-inch gun emplacements of Buona Vista Battery visible as small black circles with a white outline. No. 1 gun is in the hill-top camp beside a field, a little left of centre. This is currently a Police KINS Training Camp (2023). No. 2 gun is south-east of there, just to the east of the Ulu Pandan Military cemetery, which was laid out on a grid. Just north of this gun, parallel white lines show part of the former railway siding used to convey the heavy shells; its route is visible almost all the way from the main line, past this gun and terminating at No. 1 gun. The site of No. 2 gun is now occupied by Pine Grove condominium. Just east of No. 1 gun is a hill called Hill 200 in Mukim Pandan IV on old maps. On this hill in February 1942, soldiers of the Australian 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion died fighting against the Japanese. The Japanese finally allowed a burial party of the 2/4th from Sime Road POW camp to go to Hill 200 and bury their dead there on 21 December 1942, and 27 bodies were identified and buried.
14/02/1957
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Aerial photographs by the British Royal Air Force between 1940 to 1970s, from a collection held by the National Archives of Singapore. Crown copyright.
Updated with contribution from Beng Tang on 19/06/2020.
Updated with contributions from Trevor Sharot on 6/09/2023.
Updated with contributions from Trevor Sharot on 6/09/2023.
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