Bukit Chandu (Pasir Panjang- Kent Ridge Area)

Bukit Chandu refers to Opium Hill and is well-known for the 1942 battle between the Malay regiment and the Japanese. The Malay regiment soliders of C and B Company defended Pasir Panjang Briege against the Japanese forces on the 13th and 14th February in 1942. This was said to be one of the most savage battles of the Malayan campaignand one of the last battles before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. Lieutenant Adnan Saidi led the Mala regiment and was totured by the Japanese and burnt to death. To commemorate this important battle, a World War II interpretative centre was set up in 2002 in a renovated bungalow at 31-K Pepys Road in the Pasir Panjang area.