11 Facts About Archibald Paris

Brigadier Archibald Charles Melvill Paris, was a British Army officer.

Archibald Paris was born in 1890 in Southsea on Portsea Island, Portsmouth, the son of Major General Sir Archibald Paris, a Royal Marines officer who commanded the Royal Naval Division during the First World War, and of Lillian Jane, daughter of Gen.

In December 1941, Archibald Paris was in command of the 12th Indian Infantry Brigade, part of the Singapore Garrison.

When Lieutenant General Arthur Percival sacked Major General David Murray-Lyon from command of the 11th Indian Division, Archibald Paris was given temporary command, until the disastrous Battle of Slim River, when Major General Billy Key took over and Archibald Paris resumed command of the 12th Brigade.

Archibald Paris commanded the 12th Brigade throughout the retreat down Malaya and the subsequent battles on Singapore.

Archibald Paris's wife had left Singapore a few weeks earlier aboard the SS Lyemoon which was part of a civilian evacuation.

Archibald Paris escaped aboard the Dutch ship Rooseboom, which was sunk off Sumatra.

The senior surviving soldier, Brigadier Archibald Paris, took charge of discipline in the boat, while informing the survivors that the Dutch captain of the Rooseboom, who had survived, was in overall command.

Brigadier Archibald Paris died, hallucinating before he fell into his final coma.

Archibald Paris later learned that she had been shot as a spy by the Japanese.

Archibald Paris is commemorated on the Kranji War Memorial in Singapore.