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*[http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/WW2/Malaya_and_Singapore/index.htm Fall of Malaya and Singapore] from [http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/html/the_rising_sun.htm The Rising Sun], part of Ron Taylor’s Britain at War website
*[http://www.fepow-community.org.uk/ FEPOW Community] Far East Prisoners of War, part of Ron Taylor’s Britain at War website. Includes Books/Book Library, being an Index of Far East books WW2 period.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210514143230/http://www.nmbva.co.uk/books1.htm Bibliography of Books dealing with Malaya] Includes WW2 period etc. nmbva.co.uk, now an archived page.
*Singapore National Library e book entry [https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/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, London, catalogue reference LBY 03/1836 .
*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'', available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01014657669 .
*[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.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20211025024557/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10367891/Ron-Burton.html Obituary: Ron Burton] 09 October 2013 ''The Telegraph'', archived. He was Sergeant, 125 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (125 ATR), taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20140816000022/http://www.abc.net.au:80/4corners/specials/noprisoners/viewpoints/elphick.htm"Cover-ups and the Singapore Traitor Affair"] by Peter Elphick 28 November 2001, abc.net.au, now archived. Presented at the Fall of Singapore 60th Anniversary Conference National University of Singapore, 16-17 February 2002. Mentions one time member of the 16th Punjab Regiment, Captain Patrick Vaughan Heenan executed on Friday 13th February 1942, two days before Singapore surrendered, for being a traitor. ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission). Elphick was co-author of a book on this subject, now available to read online, see below.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofspecial1094534724 ''History of Special Operations Forces in Malaysia''] by Shamsul Afkar bin Abd Rahman. June 2013 Thesis, Master of Science in Defence Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Includes chapters on WW2. Archive.org
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