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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight0000barb/page/n5 ''Sinister Twilight: the Fall and Rise Again of Singapore''] by Noel Barber 1968. [https://archive.org/details/sinistertwilight00barb/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Lending Library. WW2
*[https://archive.org/details/singaporebattlet0000leas/page/n7/mode/2up ''Singapore : the Battle that changed the world''] by James Leasor 1968. A book in ''The Crossroads of World History Series''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Events leading to the Fall of Singapore, including the historical background from the early 1800s.
*[https://archive.org/details/outinmiddaysunsi00caff ''Out in the Midday Sun; Singapore, 1941-45--The End of an Empire''] by Kate Caffrey 1973. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/singapore19411940000alle/page/n1/mode/2up ''Singapore, 1941-1942''] by Louis Allen 1979, first published 1977. A book in the series ''The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
→Historical books online
*Anglican [Church of England] [https://www.anglican.org.sg Diocese of Singapore]
*British Army regiments in Singapore, Straits Settlements and Penang are included in the following which is mainly about British Army Regiments in India. Note, may not be complete.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085422fw_/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz1.htm Indian portion of ''In Search of the 'Forlorn Hope': A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640-WWI)'' by John M Kitzmiller] - lists the location/year of all British regiments that served in India and related regions. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200507070713/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz.htm Regiments], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085628/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz2.htm Locations]) . From Bob Holland’s Rampais website, archived. Kitzmillers's two volume book is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01010128905
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44230310 "Singapore Military Defences in the 19th Century"] by A. G. Harfield ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 54, No. 218 (Summer 1976), pp. 96-105 (14 pages). jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read for free, or perhaps you may be able to log in to jstor.org through your library card.
*Peter Stubbs’ [http://www.fortsiloso.com/index.htm Fort Siloso] including [http://www.fortsiloso.com/home/home.htm A Soldier’s Home [in the 1880s<nowiki>]</nowiki>]
*[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/039e3be1-1a10-49cc-8721-e68048399b83 Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps is set up 8th Jul 1854]. If link is not permanent, access from [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history History SG], and select Organisations. Refers to ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya'' by T.M. Winsley 1938. Available online in a Limited Preview, and also in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, refer below.
:[https://www.mindef.gov.sg/oms/safti/one-of-kind-2nd-ed2015/chp/021_brief-history-volunteer.pdf "A Brief History of the Volunteer Forces in Singapore"], Appendix I from a larger publication, probably ''One of a Kind Remembering SAFTI's First Batch''. mindef.gov.sg. Ministry of Defence. Stated to be largely based on information from Captain T. M. Winsley’s ''A History of The Singapore Volunteer Corps 1854 – 1937''.
:[https://www.cofepow.org.uk/armed-forces-stories-list/the-malayan-volunteer-forces The Malayan Volunteer Forces] by Rosemary Fell. cofepow.org.uk
:[http://sgvolunteerscorps.blogspot.com/2013/03/0-false-18-pt-18-pt-0-0-false-false.html Singapore And Malaya Volunteer Corps Medals] 10 March 2013 from “Singapore Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Malaya Volunteer Forces”
**[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/6e76cb75-dfe3-4203-a211-76305cafde9d.aspx ''The Singapore and Straits directory for 1881'']
*''The Singapore almanack and directory for the year 1856'' is available to download as a pdf from the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sejarah Melayu Library], located in the General section. Scroll down to T, and scroll further to The S…
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, '''Straits Settlements''', Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 19221941, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] (Singapore, [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Singapore%29+AND+title%3A%28%22Blue+Book%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year…''] broken range from 1873 to 19191938, including years not specifically mentioned 1907, 1908, 1910. Archive.org. Very informative publications.
:For 1873, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/n3/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Civil Establishments , commencing with an Index] page 177, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/186/mode/2up Singapore] page 187, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Penang] page 209, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/222/mode/2up Malacca] page 223.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=739oaoEThTcC&pg=PP7 1896], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zMxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1912], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VTIlAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1915], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cp5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JkLM6an5C7QC&pg=PP7 1919], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yKBDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1920], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yp9DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1921], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X6BDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1922], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cHJDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1924], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHNDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1925], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=23NDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 1926], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=15dDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1929],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZVDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1930], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fp1DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1931], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MpZDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP25 1932], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iZxDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1933], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oZtDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1934], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Al1EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1935], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rltEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1936], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFxEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1937],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q11EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1938] Google Books. Mirror versions of these editions are available in the previously mentioned Archive.org link.
:National Archives of Singapore has many editions catalogued as ''Straits Settlements Blue Books''. In the [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/advanced-search Advanced Search] for the title use search term Blue Books. All editions 1870-1938 appear to be available to read online (but download does '''not''' appear possible) and additionally there is [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/record-details/38a7dde8-f14a-11e3-a330-0050568939ad ''Colony of Singapore Blue Book 1946'']. Unfortunately the book reader is not easy to use. To increase size of font use your mouse wheel , and then an adjustment bar appears. To navigate to a particular page, use the thumbnails. The catalogue includes editions from 1867, but editions prior to 1870 do not appear to have been digitised. There is a Search option within each text, and the Search link previously mentioned also seems able to be used to search the texts of the entire collection using keywords.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' are available on "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term", however all years available appear to be also available on other sites. Example [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=332 1932] Pdf. (Also 1888, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive.org, and 1922 available Google Books).
:Other editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4468 CO 277] 1867-1939, part of "Records of Local Bodies and Other Colonial Miscellanea" commencing with CO 277/1 for 1867. (Also CO 939/1 for 1946, for Singapore).
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.:[https://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://bookssearch.google.com.au/booksphp?idquery=1dcNAAAAQAAJtitle%3A%28%22Colonial+Reports+-+Annual%22%29&pgsort=PA1 1867], [https://booksdate Archive.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877org editions of ''Colonial Reports - Annual'' from 1908 onwards]; [https://hdlpublished by the Colonial Office.handleIncludes reports for Straits Settlements and Malayan States.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT] with rotatable pages; Colonial Office Reports from 1946 [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handlesearch.net/2027/wu.89090339342php?urlappendquery=%3Bseq28Colonial+%29+AND+title%3A%28Singapore+Report%29&sort=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]: In addition, date ''Colonial Office List, 1863Singapore'' and ''Colonial Office List] for 1946, 1947, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://search1948.findmypastArchive.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacsorg.:FamilySearch has a [https://wwwseadelt.familysearch.orgnet/searchSingapore/catalogDocuments/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office ListReports - Annual. Straits Settlements''] for 1931-1932, (produced by Chadwyck1934-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) 1938 are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised download from seadelt.net "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch CentresLong Term".:*''The Colonial Office Listfor ...'' . (to 1925) Includes a section on each country, and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See [[British LibraryDirectories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533for a broken range 1862-1940.
*''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya'' by T.M. Winsley 1938. A [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/b037892f-77e2-4d3a-81dc-5c7b785dd5f1.aspx Limited preview] of this book, which however currently (2021/04/04) is quite extensive, including copies of photographs, is available online. eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-singapore-volunteers-corps-1854-1937-being-also-an-historical-outline-of-volunteering-in-malaya.html ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, owned by Ancestry, as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ80xl_tk4DCfanlUH4 ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps''].
*[https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/collection/79/items?sort_by=publication_date&sort=asc&filter= Digitised books on “History, Culture & Heritage“] from National University of Singapore. Note however, some of the books listed are in fact not viewable.
* ''Life of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke, Colonel-Commandant of Royal Engineers'' edited by Col. RH Vetch 1905 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflieutgener00vetc/page/118 "Governor of the Straits Settlements 1873-1875"] pages 119-192.
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org. Contains a chapter on Singapore.
*''The Stranger's Guide to Singapore with Maps'' Compiled by B E D' Aranjo 1890. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034AD6 British Library Digital Collection], [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d70f531e-aa4b-4129-95ac-7bbacc8f43e2.aspx BookSG] , [https://archive.org/details/strangers-guide-to-singapore/mode/2up Archive.org].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034D64 ''Précis of information concerning the Straits Settlements and the Native States of the Malay Peninsula'']. Prepared in the Intelligence Division, Horse Guards, War Office, etc. 1891. With a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034D64#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=189&z=0%2C-289.3696%2C2571%2C2533.7391 Map of Town of Singapore] (which can be rotated). British Library Digital file.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbooktosinga00reitgoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Handbook to Singapore with Map, and a Plan of the Botanical Gardens''] by George Murray Reith 1892 Archive.org
:For more details of this Mutiny on 15 February 1915, see [[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|5th Light Infantry]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/780/mode/2up "A Lady’s Experiences in the Singapore Mutiny"] page 781 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org. Also see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, '''Singapore''', Penang and Shanghai, and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org
*''One hundred years of Singapore : being some account of the capital of the Straits Settlements from its foundation by Sir Stamford Raffles on the 6th February 1819 to the 6th February 1919''. Edited by Walter Makepeace, Dr Gilbert R Brooke. Roland St J Braddell 1921. [https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearso01braduoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearso02braduoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[https://archive.org/details/returntomalaya006324mbp ''Return to Malaya''] R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910. Also includes references to Singapore.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition''. HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmenforget011687mbp/page/n305/mode/2up "Singapore 1941-1942"], Chapter Eighteen, page 289 ''Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich)'' 1954. Archive.org. Cooper was sent by Churchill, with Cabinet rank, "to enquire into the various forms of civil administration" and later, for a period was Resident Cabinet Minister authorised to form a War Council.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.154195 ''Bamboo Doctor''] by Stanley S. Pavillard 1960 Archive.org (from Digital Library of India). The author was newly arrived in Kedah when the Japanese attacked. He then became Medical Officer to the 1st SSVF and was subsequently a prisoner in Changi.
*For more books about Singapore during the Second World War, see [[Second World War#Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam|Second World War - Historical books online - Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam]]
*[https://archive.org/details/raffles00coll/page/n5 ''Raffles''] by Maurice Collis 1966 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromsouthch00alle ''Tales from the South China Seas : images of the British in South-East Asia in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1984. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenntravellerssingap0000unse/pagemode/n5 2up ''British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.:[https://archive.org/details/whensingaporefel00kenn/page/n5 'Travellers'When Singapore Fell : Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42an anthology''] compiled and introduced by Joseph Kennedy 1989John Bastin 1994. Archive.org Books Extracts from writings from 1819 to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/singapore1942bri00warr ''Singapore, 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat''] by Alan Warren 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://www.academia.edu/12122226/Did_Singapore_Have_to_Fall_Churchill_and_the_Impregnable_Fortress ''Did Singapore Have to Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress''] by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn 2004. academia.edu. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RfHQo4v2CkEC&pg=PP1 Sample pages: Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Singapore and Malaya. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
