The Adam Park Guild House is located at Adam Park Estate which was the site of intense fighting between British forces and the invading Japanese Army in February 1942, in the last day of the Battle of Singapore before the British surrender. On 12 February, the defending forces formed a final perimeter around the city. On that morning, British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Cambridge Regiment, took up positions in the Adam Park housing estate. The Battalion’s headquarter was at house number 7. Since March 1987, 7 Adam Park has served as the Adam Park Guild House of the National University of Singapore Society.
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