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*[http://www.fepow-community.org.uk/ FEPOW Community] Far East Prisoners of War, part of Ron Taylor’s Britain at War website
*Singapore National Library e book entry [http://sgebooks.nl.sg/detail/244a2bdb-3100-498c-a8c4-d7c1e40bd861.aspx ''They Died For All Free Men''] by Surjan Singh available to read online as Limited Preview. The tags for this book include include India. Army; Sikhs- Singapore; World War, 1939-1945--Registers of dead—Singapore; World War, 1939-1945--Registers of dead--India; Soldiers' monument--Singapore. This book is also available at the Imperial War Museums, with this [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/publication/46375 catalogue entry]
*IWM catalogue entry with details of the service history of [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030012958 Lieutenant J Gordon Smith] platoon commander in the [[93rd Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders]] (12th Indian Infantry Brigade, 11th Indian Division) from (?) July 1941 in Singapore and Malaya, his eventual capture in late January, 1942 and his time in the camps on the Burma - Siam railway. His memoir is'' War Memories: A Medical Student In Malaya And Thailand''
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/eric-lomax Eric Lomax obituary] (1919-2012) ''The Guardian'' 10 October 2012. A member of the [[Royal Signals]], he was in Singapore at the surrender and became a POW working on the Burma-Siam railway. His memoir is ''The Railway Man'', now also released as a movie of the same name.
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10367891/Ron-Burton.html Obituary: Ron Burton] 09 October 2013 ''The Telegraph''. He was Sergeant, 125 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (125 ATR), taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore.
