Mountbatten Road, Singapore
Mountbatten Road is a major road in
Singapore. It connects Sims Way, at the start of the
Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway, in the west, to East Coast Road, near Odean Katong Shopping Complex, in the east. Mountbatten Road is one of the main roads through
Kallang,
Geylang and
Marine Parade.
Mountbatten Road was named in honour of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, who received the surrender of the Japanese in the Second World War in 1945. Before that, the road was called Grove Road. The renaming of Grove Road was announced in 1946.
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Mountbatten Road, at the exit to Fort Road (May 2022)
References
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Singapore Street Names, by Victor R. Savage and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, page 263