Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Our next stop after the Lim Bo Seng Memorial was the Indian National Army marker, located a stone’s throw away from the previous stop of the Heritage Trail.
The Indian National Army marker was built at the site of the old Indian National Army (INA) memorial that had previously been destroyed. After the allied forces returned to Singapore, the memorial was destroyed under the orders of The Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The marker is dedicated to the 'Unknown Warrior' of the INA.
The INA were an armed force formed in Southeast Asia by Indian nationalists in 1942 during the Second World War with the objective of securing independence in India with the help of the Japanese. The INA was initially made up of Indian prisoners-of-war (POWs) captured by the Japanese in Malaya and Singapore.
The INA may not always gotten the recognition as a result of their alliance with the Japanese during World War II. Despite the little general knowledge of the role that the INA played during the Second World War, it was interesting to note that the marker has been erected to remember their part in Singapore’s history.
We left the INA marker and headed for the next stop on our list: the Cenotaph, the site of recent controversy.
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