Changi Place-based Learning

• It was part of a British military base in the 1930s that was converted into a POW camp that housed more than 50,000 prisoners, including captured allied troops.

• It is believed that the hospital bore witness to the torture and the execution of many people by the Japanese. 

• It was renamed Changi Hospital after merging with the nearby Changi Chalet Hospital.

Fun facts: 

• Universal Studios Singapore (USS) built a small replica of the ex-Changi Hospital to raise awareness of the famous haunted building.

• Popular with film-makers, many popular series such as Growing Up, The Crime Hunters, C.I.D. and Incredible Tales were partly filmed at the now-abandoned hospital.

• It was the main artillery battery of the British coastal defence network against the Japanese forces. 

• It comprised of three 15-inch (38 cm in diameter) guns, known as “monster guns” meant to stop enemy attacks from the sea but its 360-degrees traverse allowed 2 of the guns to fire landward as well.

• The Battery was forgotten until the Singapore Prisons Service discovered it during a routine cleaning in April 1991.

• The restored site now includes a replica of the large naval gun and a dummy 15-inch shell, weighing a total of 800kg. 

• It was the main artillery battery of the British coastal defence network against the Japanese forces. 

• It comprised of three 15-inch (38 cm in diameter) guns, known as “monster guns” meant to stop enemy attacks from the sea but its 360-degrees traverse allowed 2 of the guns to fire landward as well.

• The Battery was forgotten until the Singapore Prisons Service discovered it during a routine cleaning in April 1991.

• The restored site now includes a replica of the large naval gun and a dummy 15-inch shell, weighing a total of 800kg.