An Indian betrayed Singapore to the Japanese in world war II ?

[RonRon]

Captain Patrick Heenan, the so-called Traitor of Singapore, who passed on details to the Japanese?

He was an Australian with Irish ancestry, and had a chip on his shoulder against the British. He was contacted by Japanese Intelligence in Australia, and somehow persuaded to work for them - I think for a considerable sum of money.
Prior to and during the initial phases of the advance down Malaya, he passed messages to the Japanese about numbers and disposition of British forces, using a wireless set. This was from a field near one the aerodromes, which meant he could warn the Japanese when the RAF took off.
He was spotted doing this and arrested, and taken to Singapore jail (was that Changi or was that the one in Hong Kong?). The day before Singapore fell, a British officer decided that he wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of tasting victory, and shot him. I can understand the temptation, though given the Japanese regard for honour and loyalty, I doubt if he would have lasted much longer in the care of his new chums.

Name - HEENAN, PATRICK STANLEY VAUGHAN
Nationality - Indian
Rank - Captain
Regiment/Service -16th Punjab Regiment
Age - 33
Date of Death -15/02/1944
Service No - 547/AI
Additional information - Son of George Charles Heenan and of Anne Heenan of Cheam Surrey.
Casualty Type - Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference - Column 263.
Memorial - SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Capt Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan born in New Zealand in 1910 was an Indian Army officer of the 16th Punjab Regiment service number 547A1. The War Graves Commission records show that Heenan died aged 33 on Feb 15 1944 ... the date all those listed as missing in the fall of Singapore were finally accepted as being dead.

Heenan who was found guilty at a court martial was never executed because the Japanese invasion broke the lines of communication and the death warrant was never signed. He was killed by a military policeman as the Japanese closed in to prevent him being freed by the invading forces.

 

[makapaaa]

Heng dey! Thot u say me! *hee*hee*​

 

[RonRon]

In the early 1930s, Heenan applied for the Army Supplementary Reserve, the only way he could become an officer without formal qualifications. According to Elphick, had Heenan's illegitimacy been known, it would have prevented him becoming an officer. He was able to join the reserve by presenting his baptism certificate, along with a certificate signed by his school headmaster, stating that Heenan was capable of performing the duties of an officer. This was endorsed by the commander of Cheltenham's OTC. In 1932, he was placed on the Supplementary Reserve.

In 1935, Heenan was commissioned into the British Army, with the service number 547AI.[13] His address at this time was recorded as Cheam, Surrey, England. He was put on the Indian Army's Unattached List, and was sent to India. After six months' training with a British regiment, Heenan was not accepted by any Indian Army regiments. He had to do an additional six months with another British regiment before being accepted by the 16th Punjab Regiment. He reportedly performed well in a skirmish on the North-West Frontier, but was later transferred to the Indian Army Service Corps. According to Elphick, this was a device commonly used to get unsatisfactory officers away from prestigious frontline regiments.[14] However, Heenan later returned to the 16th Punjabs, but to a different battalion.

In 1938-39, Heenan took a six-month "long leave" (an Indian Army tradition) in Japan.

During 1941, as fears of a Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia grew, Heenan's unit was sent to Malaya. He was transferred to an Indian Army air liaison unit and was sent to Singapore for training. Following the completion of air liaison training, Heenan was stationed at Alor Star, in Kedah, northern Malaya, in June 1941.[15] It was in this area that most of the British RAF, Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force squadrons in Malaya were based.

Japanese forces invaded Thailand and Malaya on 8 December. Their air raids were assisted by radio transmissions made by Heenan.[16] Among other espionage equipment, he reportedly had a morse code transmitter operated by an alphanumeric keyboard — similar to a Traeger Transceiver — which was disguised as a typewriter.

By 10 December, the Japanese had destroyed most of the Allied aircraft in northern Malaya. That same day, according to Elphick, Heenan was caught "almost in the act" and was arrested. Heenan was sent to Singapore, and was reportedly court-martialled in January 1942.[17] He does not seem to have been formally sentenced, but the normal sentence for treason by British officers was death.

Heenan remained in custody at Singapore for several weeks. The Japanese gradually drove the Allies out of Malaya, and on 8 February they invaded Singapore Island. Within days, it became clear that the battle was being won by the Japanese. According to journalist and author Lynette Silver:

By February 13[,] Heenan had become very cocky, taunting his guards with the fact that he would soon be free and they would be prisoners. It appears that, goaded beyond endurance, the British military police took matters into their own hands. After cards were cut to decide who would have the honour of killing Heenan, it is alleged he was taken to the dockside, where a sergeant executed him with a single pistol shot to the back of the head. The body was then dumped in the harbour.[18]

(This is an accurate report of Lynette Silvers text, but she is simply quoting Elphick. She goes on to say that the whole Patrick Heenan affair may have simply been an aspect of a British cover-up over the Fall of Singapore. It is worth noting that a fair amount of Elphicks explanation of the affair is hearsay based upon rumour.)[19]

 

[jim007jimmyboy]

wonder how cum the fucking old man and prataman never hang after the war??

 

[TeeKee]

Military historian Brian P. Farrell believes that Heenan could not have done decisive damage to the Allies, but he probably cost No. 62 Squadron some personnel and aircraft.[21] Elphick suggests that the British Commonwealth air forces would have been defeated without Heenan's help: their aircraft in Malaya were inadequate compared to the Japanese, and; airfields in northern Malaya had been located in undefensible positions. Elphick added that Heenan "...must have passed on much helpful information pre-war and he pushed the rate of aircraft destruction along a bit after the war began."[22] Elphick also says that word of Heenan's actions spread quickly among British Commonwealth officers and had a significant effect on morale.

By 1998, the families of other personnel listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War II memorial at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, were requesting the removal of Heenan's name.[23] His date of death on the memorial, "February 15, 1944" was reportedly a standard date assigned to all Commonwealth personnel officially listed as missing during the Battle of Singapore.[24]

 

[jojostar]

Captain Patrick Heenan, the so-called Traitor of Singapore, who passed on details to the Japanese?

He was an Australian with Irish ancestry,
Name - HEENAN, PATRICK STANLEY VAUGHAN
Nationality - Indian
Rank - Captain
Regiment/Service -16th Punjab Regiment
Additional information - Son of George Charles Heenan and of Anne Heenan of Cheam Surrey.

Capt Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan born in New Zealand in 1910 was an Indian Army officer of the 16th Punjab Regiment service number 547A1.

you cannot even read your own post??? he is an aussie his parents are from england (surrey) he served in indian army which at the time was under colonial rule and all its officers were british (he was a captain) the same as singapore at the time

it is like saying raffles was an ah beng (do you even understand that anaology?)

can you be any dumber but being a dumb racists i guess not

btw it was the indian army that stopped the japanese march across asia when they defeated them in burma. the americans came in and cleared them out of all the occupied lands. at the same time the chinese army were getting slaughter by the japanese for many many years.

 

[Alamaking]

We have 1 local Japanese translator during WW2 still alive, why nobody mentioned him?

He currently No.1 shot in SG wor, and always give new positions to himself :p:p:p

 

[Lee Hsien Tau]

Heenan was a bastard. If Heenan was an officer in the 16th Punjab Regiment, he probably had a white cock. British East India don't use Indian for officer rank.


Heenan's mother, Anne Stanley (born 1882), was not married at the time of her son's birth at Reefton, New Zealand, his birth certificate recorded her maiden name as his surname, and did not include any information about his father.[3] Heenan's illegitimacy would have carried a great social stigma in western society, during the early part of the 20th century. A year later, both mother and son moved to Burma with a mining engineer named George Charles Heenan (born 1855). The older Heenan is described by some sources as an Irish republican,[4] although he seems to have had a long association with New Zealand, including selection for a regional representative cricket team in 1882-83.[5] There is no conclusive evidence that George Heenan was Patrick's father, or that George and Anne ever married. However, Patrick was baptised in Burma as a Catholic, with the surname Heenan.[6] George Heenan died at Pauk, Burma in 1912. Patrick's mother then worked as a governess for a family named Carroll.[7]

In 1922, the Carrolls moved to England, and Anne Stanley went with them. Mrs Carroll died a few years later, and Bernard Carroll, who was an accountant, married Anne.[8] From 1923 to 1926, Patrick was a boarder at Sevenoaks School in Kent, and in 1927 began attending the elite Cheltenham College, as a day boy, in a stream of students preparing for military careers.[9] Although he was then 16 years old, at Cheltenham he was put in classes with pupils as young as 13.

Accounts of his time at Sevenoaks and Cheltenham show Heenan to have been a poor student and — in the words of the ODNB — a "gloomy, resentful misfit disliked by other pupils".[10] He nevertheless excelled at sports, especially boxing, due largely to his impressive physique.[11] According to Elphick, Heenan was unpopular with other students at Cheltenham and was often in trouble with school authorities. Although he joined the Officers Training Corps (OTC) at Cheltenham, Heenan did not gain any formal qualifications;[12] because of this, he was not able to be admitted to British Army officer training, when he left school at the age of 19. Heenan instead joined Steel Brothers, a trading company with interests in Asia.

you cannot even read your own post??? he is an aussie his parents are from england (surrey) he served in indian army which at the time was under colonial rule and all its officers were british (he was a captain) the same as singapore at the time

it is like saying raffles was an ah beng (do you even understand that anaology?)

can you be any dumber but being a dumb racists i guess not

btw it was the indian army that stopped the japanese march across asia when they defeated them in burma. the americans came in and cleared them out of all the occupied lands. at the same time the chinese army were getting slaughter by the japanese for many many years.