Image: General F W Messervy receives the sword of General Itagaki
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Description: General Officer Commanding Malaya Command, Lieutenant General F W Messervy KBE, CB, DSO, receives the sword of General Itagaki, Commander of the Japanese 7 Area Army, which controlled Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Nicobar and Andaman Islands, parts of Borneo and Siam, at a formal ceremony of surrender held in the grounds of Headquarters Malaya Command, Kuala Lumpur. 22 February 1946
Title: General F W Messervy receives the sword of General Itagaki
Credit: This photograph SE 6801 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit Park R (Sergeant)
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