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Tom Trumble at the Shrine of Remembrance

Photo credit: © Greg Elms, 2011

Event

Tom Trumble at the Shrine of Remembrance


Time & date

3:00pm - 4:00pm, 15th February 2026


Location

Shrine of Remembrance View map

Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC 3001


Tickets

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$10

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About

On a pitch-black night in September 1943, an Australian commando unit launched a daring raid on Singapore Harbour, sinking and damaging Japanese ships in what became known as Operation Jaywick. While the mission passed into legend, it sparked a brutal crackdown by Japan’s military police.

In Survival in Singapore, Tom Trumble uncovers the extraordinary human stories that followed. From a courageous schoolteacher smuggling aid into Changi Prison to a diplomat who endured shipwreck, the book explores survival against impossible odds and the choices that shaped lives in wartime Singapore.

After the talk, share in a light afternoon tea before gathering on the Shrine Forecourt for a moving Last Post Service commemorating the Fall of Singapore.

Copies of Survival in Singapore will be available for purchase at the event.

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Survival in Singapore
SURVIVAL IN SINGAPORE is a gripping account of an untold story of Japanese-occupied Singapore, and a testament of courage, sacrifice and the resilience of the human spirit.
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