Commanders at the Fall of Singapore (1942)

British & Commonwealth Forces

• Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival – General Officer Commanding (GOC) Malaya Command. Surrendered to Yamashita on Feb 15, 1942.

Japanese Forces

• Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita – Commander, 25th Army ("Tiger of Malaya"). Orchestrated the 70-day campaign down the Malay Peninsula.

Percival's force of ~85,000 (British, Australian, Indian) surrendered to Yamashita's ~30,000—one of the largest capitulations in British military history.