Percival makes arrangements with the Royal Navy to rescue the Indian 2nd Brigade. Plans for the retreat across the causeway get underway. The retreat across the causeway begins. Bennett watches as the troops begin their journey. The last force to cross the causeway is the Argyll and Southern Highlanders.
Indian troops blast a wide crater in the road.
Malaya is lost to the Japanese. Percival makes an address to the people of Singapore from the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation studios at Caldecott Hill. Oercival moves his headquarters to the Sine Road Military Camp. A reinforcement convoy, MS1, arrives in Singapore with HMAS Hobart as part of the escort. Bennett inspects his shoreline defence positions.