the worst defeat in the history of british arms, the battle of singapore and the preceding malayan campaign saw percival's command suffer around 7,500 killed, 10,000 wounded, and 120,000 captured. japanese losses in the fighting for singapore numbered around 1,713 killed and 2,772 wounded. while some of the british and australian prisoners were kept at singapore, thousands more were shipped to southeast asia for use as forced labor on projects such as the siam–burma (death) railway and sandakan airfield in north borneo.