Location: Wessex (formerly Pasir Panjang)

Formerly known as Pasir Panjang......the name changed to Wessex in 1963.

The school was in two locations - the location pin shows the Infant School.

The Infant school was the other side of the Pasir Panjang/Wessex Junior School playing field.

The sites are now subsumed into Tanglin Trust School.

Wessex Junior School staff dated 1968.

This is Portsdown Road at the end of the school day with a Malay soldier doing traffic control.
Twenty seven buses came to pick up the widely scattered children of Pasir Panjang Junior School.

Images of the Wessex school building, the helicopter landing and home-time are courtesy of the "Memories of Singapore" website (link opens in a new window)

Click the above image to read the first page of this report which gives a good history of the school (opens in a new window).

Wessex Infant School staff 1974.

Wessex School classroom helpers 1974

Wessex School 'Bus Wardens' 1974

Most British troops and families had moved out of Singapore by October 1971, leaving a token number behind.

The last British troops left in 1976.

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Many additional photographs can be viewed by clicking the above image (opens in a new page).