Product Description
SCWPM.P11 - TBB.B112aDate: 1 -july-1941 (intro: 1945)
Grade: XF - Prefix: Q/81 - Sign.: 1
Issued by: Board of Commissioners of Currency
Description: Blue and green.
Front: English and Malay text; King George VI.
Back: English and Malay text; 11 coats of arms. Arms of the various member states (Straits Settlements, Trengganu, Kedah, Kelantan, Johore, Perlis, Brunei, Perak, Pahang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan)
No security thread. - Watermark: Lion head.
Printer: WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON.
Size: 125 x 64 mm. - Material: paper.
More about this period: Malaya
then under British administration, was gradually occupied by Japanese forces between 8 December 1941 and the Allied surrender at Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese remained in occupation until their surrender to the Allies in 1945. The first Japanese garrison in Malaya to lay down their arms was in Penang on 2 September 1945 aboard HMS Nelson.
