BRITAIN’S SINGAPORE FORTRESS WW2

 

SINGAPORE WW2

 

 

C.1941. MAJOR GENERAL K. SIMMONS, SINGAPORE FORTRESS COMMAND (LEFT) AND AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ROBERT BROOKE-POPHAM, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, FAR EAST.

 

General Sir Archibald Wavell, C-in-C Far East, and Major General F. K. Simmons, GOC Singapore Fortress, inspecting men of the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, Singapore, 3 November 1941.

 

Below:  Major-General Simmons died 1952.  He had retired after the war, and settled in Australia at Gippsland Lakes  with his family.