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Old 31-07-13, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by kitinsignia View Post
Hi, what you have there is a Singapore District Formation Sign used sometime after the war. By the way there is no Singapore Command, before the WWII Singapore was under Malaya Command.
Singapore District was formed in Feb 46 and it originally included a small part of the-then Netherlands East Indies (the Riow Peninsular). The District reverted to just Singapore Island (and its small off-shore islands) in Nov 47 when British Forces left the NEI and the Riow Peninsular was handed back to the Dutch authorities. There were numerous variants of the formation sign, many being locally made - such as those at the start of this thread. The sign was in use from the mid-1940s through until the early 1970s.
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