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Singapore headquarters

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Singapore headquarters

This bird's-eye view shows the New Zealand Defence Force headquarters in Singapore in 1975. A New Zealand infantry battalion was stationed in Singapore at the end of the Malayan Emergency in 1960 and remained there until it was recalled home in 1989 – the year the Berlin Wall came down.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Defence-Army-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Gerald Hensley, Cold War – South-East Asia, 1955 to 1975, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32700/singapore-headquarters (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerald Hensley, published 16 April 2012.