DescriptionGeneral F W Messervy receives the sword of General Itagaki.jpg
English: General Officer Commanding Malaya Command, Lieutenant General F W Messervy KBE, CB, DSO, receives the sword of General Itagaki, Commander of the Japanese 7 Area Army, which controlled Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Nicobar and Andaman Islands, parts of Borneo and Siam, at a formal ceremony of surrender held in the grounds of Headquarters Malaya Command, Kuala Lumpur. 22 February 1946