G3 Production

Dearest group members,

I hope all of you are glad that our editing for our documentary is done. However, we still have our presentation and documentary to present when school reopens.I’m not very sure what the presentation will be on,but i hope that some of us can edit the current one.Maybe the slides are on what we had done and learnt or what we had encountered during the process that we had gone through.

I hoped that some of you can reply to this post so that I can know what we are going to do for our presentation slides.Interaction in this project work blog will also contributes to our marks for july. Let’s work hard by giving comments daily or twice a week!

Lastly, happy holidays!

When the Malay Regiment was at its strongest, 27 battalions were formed. At present, two battalions of the Malay Regiment are parachute trained and while another battalion has converted into a mechanized infantry battalion.The rest were light infantries.

The Regiment’s crest was designed with a pair of tigers, supporting an Oriental Crown.

They are made up of volunteers from the Malays in Singapore and they were also part of the Malaysian armed force.

They were loyal towards Singapore and their perseverance were simply astonishing to us but they failed. though they failed, they have help us throughout the war.

 Page2: About Lt. Adnan Bin Saidi

DoneBy: JuliaLoo

Many heros sacrificed their lives in World War 2. Among them, one of the heros is Left. Adnan Bin SaiDi. Left. Adnan Bin Saidi was born in Kajang, Selangor and passed away with honour in Pasir Panjang,Singapore. Left. Adnan Bin Saidi, was born in the 1915 and died in 1942 February 14. Hewas 27 years old by then. Left. Adnan Bin Saidi contributed for 9 years in service since 1933-1942.

Left. Adnan Bin Saidi was the eldest in his family. He has 2 younger siblings, Ahmad Saidi and Amarullah Saidi who were soldiers as well.Left.Adnan Bin Saidi was known for his bravery and loyalty actions. Left. Adnan Bin Saidi did not surrender and encourages his men to keep fighting tell the end. Even after he was being caught by the Japanese Soldiers, he did not surrender and this proves that he was very loyal towards his country.

Left. Adnan Bin Saidi died in honour and now there is a museum at Bukit Chandu to recogonise the bravery and loyalty actions of Left. Adnan and the Malay Regiment.

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Article:

The Battle of Singapore was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the Allied stronghold of Singapore. The fighting in Singapore lasted from Frebruary 7 1942 to February 15 1942.

The Japanese troops invaded Singapore and battled with the British soldiers. Unfortunately, Singapore had a lack of defences. The British soldiers fought hard to beat the Japanese but they were outnumbered.

For eight days the battle went on. The British soldiers were weak as British sent the untrained and lack of experience soldiers over to Singapore. They kept their better soldiers there as they were also having a war. Therefore Singapore fell into the Japanese on February 15 1942. Percival surrended Singapore to the Japanese.

From then on, life in Singapore had changed.

Photo Journalism.

Page 1. [sunarsih]
Picture: British Soldiers.
Article: World War 2. (Japan & British)

Page 2. [Julia]
Picture: Left Adnan bin Saidi
Article: Profile about him. Start with “ Many heroes sacrificed their lives in WW2. One of them is… Left Adnan Bin Saidi.

Page 3. [Nicholas]
Picture: Malay Regiment.
Article: profile about malay regiment & what they had done.

Page 4 & 5. [weihoon & Derek]
Picture: weapons used during WW2 & soldiers fighting.
Article: the Battle of Bukit Chandu.

Page 6. [Kang Ling]
Picture: malay regiment & adnan being hang on trees.
Article: The Japanese tortured the malay regiment. “ Death Before Dishonour”

please post your drafts so i can edit. Thank you!

On the coming thursday, we have a photo and video journalism training. On that particular day, we need to finish our documentary and our photo journalism article.So I suggests that we divide up the work into half.

I’m sure some of us need to do some touch up on our article that we are going to write on.Meanwhile, the others can edit the video or find music that can be put up in our documentary.Maybe some of us can find some music for our documentary,ok?

I figured out that we might need more relevant pictures for the photo journalism’s articles that we are going to do on thursday.I hope some of you can also upload the pictures that we had taken at fort siloso or find some pictures that are relevant and post them too.

^A machine gun pillbox used by the malay troops during the battle of pasir panjang which remains till today.

Maybe some of us can find new pictures,ok?

Battle of Bukit Chandu 

Lt.adnan bin saidi led a 42 strong platoon from the malay regiment in defending singapore against the japanese that were invading singapore.

Although most of the battle in other parts of singapore was lost to the japanese, the last battle that the malay regiment had against was the Battle of bukit Chandu.It lasted for 2 days,from February 12 to 14, 1942.They battled for two days amid heavy enemy shelling and shortages of food and ammunition. 

The malay regiment and Lt. Adnan bin saidi had a strong fight with the Japanese invader at bukit chandu. Little do they know that it was their last time fighting with the japanese for their country ; singapore.

On the first day of the battle of bukit chandu, the malay regiment that were made up of volunteers from the malay men, were determined to fight till the end.However, they were outnumbered by the japanese troops in terms of manpower and weapons.

Yet, they had a strong will to fight and refused to surrender.This was so as they were entrusted the responsibility to defend pasir panjang ridge.

How was this done? The malay regiment’s leader: Lt.Adnan Bin Saidi was a brave one that took the team’s spirit to the highest by encourging them to not to give up and to be loyal to their country.

No one in the Malay regiment disobeyed him as they all respected him.Lt.Adnan Bin Saidi even have a motto to keep them going for the battle.That was : Death before Dishonour.

With this motto in mind, none of the 42 malay regiment soldiers gave up and fight till the end for their country during the Battle of Bukit Chandu in Pasir panjang ridge.But Lt.Adnan was shot yet he still carried on fighting the Japanese.

However, the brave lietunant of the 42-platoon malay regiment were caught by the Japanese soldiers as they lost to them.After the battle was lost, the wounded Adnan was taken as a prisoner by the Japanese soldiers, who tied him to a rubber tree and then bayoneted him to death.

Adnan Saidi is a firm man who took discipline seriously, chose instead to pursue the military vocation.

Adnan’s ship was sunk by the Japanese soldiers.

Adnan was shot, but he continued fighting. After the battle was lost, Adnan was taken as a prisoner by the Japanese soldiers. He was later hung on a rubber tree, and was bayoneted to death.

Adnan caught the disguised Indian troops’ marching error. 

When Singapore surrendered, the Japanese kempeitai tried but did not succeed to find and murder Adnan’s family in revenge for what happened in Bukit Chandu.

Ps: Please tell me if this is enough. If not I will add more information.

We had decided that we are going to retake our interviews on tomorrow,thursday.
Please remember to meet after school and bring the script for the person that is holding on to the hard copy of it.