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The old Train Control offices at the Murray Bridge Railway Station yards.
Only twenty years ago my father was the stationmaster at Murray Bridge, and several people worked in these buildings.
Then the station was closed and the buildings left to rot.
Viscose Co #6 marks its way through the forest and brush that surrounds the tracks as they blow for the small crossing at Clintonville Rd.
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Our memory is a landscape, our bodies are its map. We can trace lines with our fingers that will take us down roads, we can find markings that symbolize a monument in our past; these are our scars.
For a series on mapping, I took to photographing the physical and psychological impression scars leave on a person. The ambiguity of the physical in the photograph is to pair with the ambiguity of the quote, not depicting the incident or injury, but acting as a brief view into the human psyche. Rather than romanticized and sensationalized, the photographs are gritty depictions of gritty truths.
The series Memory Markings has been made into a limited edition book which can be bought at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel briefly.
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Later in the month we're paving our driveway so today, the Gas Company sent over this nice fellow to mark off the Gas Line. It goes all the way down our driveway.
Found this great reference for markings, as I need them to complete my Sherman troop.
They're now 8th Arm. Brigade, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, B Sqdr. , as chosen by a friend to whom I literally asked: "Red, Yellow or Blue?, triangles, squares or circles?" This was her choice. Thank you InĂŞs ;)
Also, been reassigning my other vehicles to their respective period-corrected units. I'll upload some more pics when I'm done with the stickering :3
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Washington State Department of Transportation crewmembers apply lane markings to a section of highway I-182 in the Tri-Cities, July 3, 2019.
Maintenance, such as applying and renewing lane markings, is part of WSDOT’s continuous job to ensure the safe use of Washington’s highway system.
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Yesterday I gained an even greater appreciation for the majesty & beauty of Mother Nature. We've had Northern Flicker's occasionally as visitors over the years here, but they don't hang around long when they know we're out there. Yesterday, this beauty hung around, & posed, long enough that I was able to get shots of all his beautiful markings. I absolutely love that red patch on the back of his head, & the tail feather designs are stunning. Mother Nature teaches me things everyday!! Thank you God for making me pay attention!
For its 150th anniversary, the Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball team is bringing back the use of the term "Red Stockings," which was how the team was known by in its early days. This display is on the outside wall of the stadium beyond left field. In the background is Great American Tower at Queen City Square.
Painting and markings:
This model is not a 1:1 hardware rendition of PantherG’s drawing, rather a personal interpretation of the idea that the RNZAF had operated the P-39 in the PTO around 1943. However, I took over the basic USAAF livery in overall Olive Drab 41 with Neutral Grey 43 (FS 36173) undersides, plus generous Medium Green 42 (~FS 34094) contrast blotches on the edges of the aerodynamic surfaces to break up the aircraft’s outlines.
The paints became Tamiya XF-62 (IMHO the best rendition of the USAAF tone) with Humbrol 105 (FS 34097) for the additional wing cammo, and Humbrol 165 (RAF Medium Grey, a lighter tone than Neutral Grey) underneath. 105 was chosen because it gives a good contrast to the Olive Drab background, and it is not too bluish. The cockpit interior and the landing gear wells were painted in zinc chromate green - Humbrol 159 was used.
A black ink washing and some post-panel-shading followed, with stronger weathering on the upper surfaces to simulate sun-bleaching. The markings are roughly based on a contemporary RNZAF P-40M, and it is a wild mix. The ex-USAAF camouflage would not be used by the RNZAF, but the white ID bands on wings and fuselage as well as the white spinner are typical for the time. The same goes for the roundels, which still contained tiny red discs at the fuselage roundels’ center. Oddly, very different roundels were carried above and below the wings. As a repaired and re-badged ex-USAAF aircraft, I added overpainted markings of this former operator – the serial number on the fin as well as the former bars of the American markings were painted over with (a sort of) Foliage Green (Humbrol 172).
The national markings, the serial number and the small nose art came from a Rising Decals sheet for various RNZAF aircraft types, while the white stripes were improvised with generic decal sheet material (TL Modellbau). The RAF-style tactical code was not carried by the RNZAF’s machines, but I added them, anyway, because they might have been left over from early RNZAF operations. However, together with the white ID bands, there’s a lot going on along the fuselage – white code letters would certainly have been “too much”. The code letters in Medium Sea Grey came from an Xtradecal sheet, and due to the little space on the rear fuselage the unit code “HQ” was placed on the nose – in a fashion similar to the RAAF’s few P-39s.
After a light black ink washing and some post shading and weathering (e. g. exhaust stains with graphite), the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and wire antennae from heated sprue material added.
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I enjoy looking in old books that have markings! The Bible is a great book to mark! I will always remember visiting a church will on vacation. The lady beside me passed her Bible and asked me to be her guest. "Mark the Bible, as the preacher reads and discusses the scripture." My kids were amused!
So, how do we mark eBooks? It is interesting to check out an eBook from the public library and see the social markings. There is a running tally on highlighted markings!
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since our nation's involvement in the First World War.
These photos are almost 10 years old to the day (7 days away) as it will soon be Anzac day 2015.
I have attended quite a few dawn services but none quite as sobering as being a foreigner, walking fields where Australian soldiers died during wartime, and were burried.
I thought it was time to post my photos from Kranji.
I got up at 4 am along with many other of my Australian Microsoft and MVP friends. Bleary eyed, fighting the fog, we found our way to the bus.
We were in a daze as we were bumped about making our way to the killing fields of Kranji.
Kranji is a suburb in northwestern Singapore, located about 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the city centre.
The Kranji War Memorial in Singapore honours the men and women from the Commonwealth who died in the line of duty during World War II.
A very appropropriate and solem place for Anzac Day 2005.
Back then I was not interested in Photography and my cameras were not that great. Still, that is not the reason for the photos. I did want to try for a perfect shot. I just wanted memories.
It was humid, dark and very quiet as the service started. Bagpipes from overhead and marching in front.
Deep within this quiet neighbourhood, lies the Kranji War Memorial, a hillside cemetery that is quite beautiful in its serenity once you get there.
Every year, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.
The memorial honours the men and women from Britain, Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Malaya, the Netherlands and New Zealand who died in the line of duty during World War II.
Here, we see more than 4,400 white gravestones lined up in rows on the cemetery’s gentle slope. Many graves hold unknown soldiers.
The Chinese Memorial in plot 44 marks a mass grave for 69 Chinese servicemen who were killed by the Japanese when Singapore fell in February 1942.
Next to the Kranji War Memorial are the Kranji Military Cemetery and the Singapore State Cemetery, where Singapore’s first and second presidents are buried.
As we walked the short flight of steps to the hilltop terrace, we saw four memorials.
The largest is the Singapore Memorial, with its huge star-topped central pylon that rises to a height of 24 metres.
This memorial bears the names of more than 24,346 Allied soldiers and airmen killed in Southeast Asia who have no known grave. You can find the register, kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, at the entrance.
Every year, on the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day on 11 November, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.
Next to the Kranji War Memorial is the Kranji Military Cemetery, a non-world war site of more than 1,400 burials, as well as the Singapore State Cemetery, where the country’s first and second presidents, Encik Yusof Ishak and Dr Benjamin Henry
Sheares, are buried.
The Battle of Kranji was the second stage of the Empire of Japan's plan for the invasion of Singapore during the Second World War. On 9 February 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army assaulted the north-western front of the British colony of
Singapore. Their primary objective was to secure a second beachhead after their successful assault at Sarimbun Beach on 8 February, in order to breach the Jurong-Kranji defence line as part of their southward thrust towards the heart of
Singapore City. Defending the shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway was the Australian 27th Brigade, led by Brigadier Duncan Maxwell, and one irregular company.
On 10 February the Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses while moving up the Kranji River, which caused them to panic and nearly aborted the operation. However, a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces in the
ensuing battles allowed the Japanese to swiftly gain strategic footholds, which eventually led to the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942.
The terrain around Kranji was primarily mangrove swamps and tropical forest intersected by streams and inlets. The shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway, nearly four kilometers long, was defended by the
Australian 27th Brigade, led by Australian Brigadier Duncan Maxwell. The 27th Infantry Brigade consisted of three battalions—the 2/30th, 2/29th, and 2/26th and was supported by the 2/10th Field Artillery Regiment, as well as one platoon from the
2/4th Machine Gun Battalion.
They were supported by one company from Dalforce (named after its commander, Lieutenant-Colonel John Dalley of the Malayan Police Special Branch), a local Chinese militia consisting of Communists, Nationalist supporters, and other
volunteers. As the war intensified, the Dalforce volunteers were given only three to four days of training and sent to the war front with elementary weapons. Lacking uniforms, the volunteers improvised by wearing a red triangle on their blue shirts to
avoid being mistaken for Japanese by the Australians.
The Allied forces at Kranji were to be assaulted by the Imperial Guards Division led by Major General Takuma Nishimura. 400 Imperial Guards had landed and taken Pulau Ubin, an island in the north-east of Singapore, in a feint attack on 7
February, where they encountered minimal resistance.
On 9 February, two divisions of the Japanese Twenty Fifth Army, led by Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, landed on the northwestern coast of Singapore, in the Sarimbun area. Yamashita's headquarters (HQ) was in the Sultan of Johor's
palace on Istana Bukit Serene, which offered him and his officers a bird's eye view of virtually every key target in the northern sector of Singapore Island, only 1.6 kilometres (one mile) across the Straits of Johor. Sultan Ibrahim's palace was not fired
upon by the British because any damage caused would have extensive repercussions for British-Johor ties.
The primary objective of the Japanese at Kranji was to capture Kranji village; this would let them repair the demolished Causeway in order to facilitate easy flow of reinforcements and supplies down the roads of Woodlands and Mandai, and to the
rest of the island for their vanguard force. Once the leading wave of Japanese was safely ashore, the massed Japanese artillery switched their fire to the defensive positions at Kranji. Telegraph and telephone communications were destroyed in the
bombardment and communications between the front line and command HQ were broken. At 8:30pm that night, the men of the Imperial Guards Division began the crossing from Johor in special armoured landing-crafts, collapsible boats and by
swimming.
In the early hours of 10 February, Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses during the Battle of Singapore. While moving up the Kranji River, advance landing parties from the 4th Regiment of the Imperial Guard Division found themselves
under heavy fire from Australian machine gunners and mortar teams. They also found themselves surrounded by oil slicks, which had been created by Allied personnel emptying the nearby Woodlands oil depot, to prevent its capture. A scenario
feared by Yamashita came to pass by accident; the oil was set alight by Allied small arms fire, causing many Japanese soldiers to be burnt alive. Sustaining heavy losses, Nishimura requested permission to abandon the operation. However,
Yamashita denied the request.
Maxwell, who had limited communications with his division headquarters, was concerned that his force would be cut off by fierce and chaotic fighting at Sarimbun and Jurong to the south west, involving the Australian 22nd Brigade. Maxwell's
force consequently withdrew from the seafront. This allowed the Japanese to land in increasing strength and take control of Kranji village. They also captured Woodlands, and began repairing the causeway, without encountering any Allied attacks.
Japanese light tanks, which had good buoyancy, were towed across the straits to Lim Chu Kang Road where they joined the battle at dusk. With reinforced troops and tanks advancing down Choa Chua Kang Road, the Australian troops were no
match for the tanks and fled to the hills of Bukit Panjang. The 5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) captured Bukit Timah village by the evening of 11 February.
Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, General Officer Commanding of HQ Malaya Command, drew a defence perimeter covering Kallang aerodrome, MacRitchie and Peirce reservoirs and the Bukit Timah supply depot area to ensure the integrity
of the city's defence. One line of the north-western defence perimeter was the Jurong-Kranji defence line, a narrow ridge connecting the sources of the Jurong and the Kranji Rivers, forming a natural defence line protecting the north-west
approach to the Singapore City. (Its counterpart was the Serangoon Line, which was sited between Kallang Airfield and Paya Lebar village on the eastern part of Singapore). The troops were to defend this Line strongly against the invading
Japanese force. The Line was defended by the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade which covered milestone 12 on Jurong Road, the 12th Indian Infantry Brigade and the reinforced 22nd Australian Brigade which guarded the northern part of the Line and
maintained contact with the 44th Indian Brigade. The 15th Indian Infantry Brigade was re-positioned near Bukit Timah Road to guard the island's vital food and petrol supplies. A secret instruction to protect this area was issued to Percival's
generals.
Percival's secret orders to withdraw to the last defence line around the city only if necessary were misunderstood by Maxwell, who took this to be an order for an immediate withdrawal to the Line. As a result, the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade, the 12th
Indian Infantry Brigade and the 22nd Australian Brigade, reinforced after their withdrawal from Sarimbun beach in the north-west, abandoned the Line on 10 February. Fearing that the large supplies depot would fall into Japanese hands should
they make a rush for Bukit Timah too soon, General Archibald Wavell, Allied commander-in-chief of the Far East sent an urgent message to Percival:
It is certain that our troops in Singapore Island heavily outnumber any Japanese who have crossed the Straits. We must destroy them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out in the
Bataan Peninsula against a far heavier odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans. The Chinese with an almost lack of modern equipment have held the Japanese for four and a half years. It will be disgraceful if we
yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces.
By 11 February, the Jurong-Kranji Defence Line was left undefended which allowed the Japanese forces to sweep through the Line to attack Bukit Timah. On the same day, Percival finally moved his Combined Operations Headquarters in Sime
Road to the underground bunker, The Battle Box at Fort Canning.
Despite their fighting spirit, the Dalforce fighters suffered from poor training and the lack of equipment. A further blow was delivered when the 27th Australian Brigade withdrew southwards. As a result, the Japanese established a stronghold in the
northern Woodlands area and secured a relatively easy passage into the island. General Wavell left Singapore for Java early on 11 February and sent a cable to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London on his assessment of the war front
in Singapore:
Battle for Singapore is not going well... I ordered Percival to stage counter-attack with all troops possible... Morale of some troops is not good and none is as high as I should like to see... The chief troubles are lack of sufficient training in some
reinforcing troops and an inferior complex which bold Japanese tactics and their command of the air have caused. Everything possible is being done to produce more offensive spirit and optimistic outlook. But I cannot pretend that these efforts
have been entirely successful up to date. I have given the most categorical orders that there is to be no thought of surrender and that all troops are to continue fighting to the end...
By 12 February, the Imperial Guards had captured the reservoirs and Nee Soon village. The defending troops, by this time, were badly shaken. Thousands of exhausted and frightened stragglers left the fighting to seek shelter in large buildings. On
the same night, British forces in the east of the island had begun to withdraw towards the city.
On 13 February, the Japanese 5th Division continued its advance and reached Adam and Farrer Roads to capture the Sime Road Camp. Yamashita moved his HQ forward to the bomb-damaged Ford Factory in Bukit Timah. Heading southwards,
the Japanese 18th Division advanced into Pasir Panjang, where the last major battle of Singapore would be fought with the Malay Regiments at Bukit Chandu.
In 1995, the former battle sites of Kranji and the defence line were gazetted by the National Heritage Board as two of the eleven World War II sites of Singapore.
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Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since our nation's involvement in the First World War.
These photos are almost 10 years old to the day (7 days away) as it will soon be Anzac day 2015.
I have attended quite a few dawn services but none quite as sobering as being a foreigner, walking fields where Australian soldiers died during wartime, and were burried.
I thought it was time to post my photos from Kranji.
I got up at 4 am along with many other of my Australian Microsoft and MVP friends. Bleary eyed, fighting the fog, we found our way to the bus.
We were in a daze as we were bumped about making our way to the killing fields of Kranji.
Kranji is a suburb in northwestern Singapore, located about 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the city centre.
The Kranji War Memorial in Singapore honours the men and women from the Commonwealth who died in the line of duty during World War II.
A very appropropriate and solem place for Anzac Day 2005.
Back then I was not interested in Photography and my cameras were not that great. Still, that is not the reason for the photos. I did want to try for a perfect shot. I just wanted memories.
It was humid, dark and very quiet as the service started. Bagpipes from overhead and marching in front.
Deep within this quiet neighbourhood, lies the Kranji War Memorial, a hillside cemetery that is quite beautiful in its serenity once you get there.
Every year, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.
The memorial honours the men and women from Britain, Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Malaya, the Netherlands and New Zealand who died in the line of duty during World War II.
Here, we see more than 4,400 white gravestones lined up in rows on the cemetery’s gentle slope. Many graves hold unknown soldiers.
The Chinese Memorial in plot 44 marks a mass grave for 69 Chinese servicemen who were killed by the Japanese when Singapore fell in February 1942.
Next to the Kranji War Memorial are the Kranji Military Cemetery and the Singapore State Cemetery, where Singapore’s first and second presidents are buried.
As we walked the short flight of steps to the hilltop terrace, we saw four memorials.
The largest is the Singapore Memorial, with its huge star-topped central pylon that rises to a height of 24 metres.
This memorial bears the names of more than 24,346 Allied soldiers and airmen killed in Southeast Asia who have no known grave. You can find the register, kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, at the entrance.
Every year, on the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day on 11 November, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.
Next to the Kranji War Memorial is the Kranji Military Cemetery, a non-world war site of more than 1,400 burials, as well as the Singapore State Cemetery, where the country’s first and second presidents, Encik Yusof Ishak and Dr Benjamin Henry
Sheares, are buried.
The Battle of Kranji was the second stage of the Empire of Japan's plan for the invasion of Singapore during the Second World War. On 9 February 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army assaulted the north-western front of the British colony of
Singapore. Their primary objective was to secure a second beachhead after their successful assault at Sarimbun Beach on 8 February, in order to breach the Jurong-Kranji defence line as part of their southward thrust towards the heart of
Singapore City. Defending the shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway was the Australian 27th Brigade, led by Brigadier Duncan Maxwell, and one irregular company.
On 10 February the Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses while moving up the Kranji River, which caused them to panic and nearly aborted the operation. However, a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces in the
ensuing battles allowed the Japanese to swiftly gain strategic footholds, which eventually led to the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942.
The terrain around Kranji was primarily mangrove swamps and tropical forest intersected by streams and inlets. The shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway, nearly four kilometers long, was defended by the
Australian 27th Brigade, led by Australian Brigadier Duncan Maxwell. The 27th Infantry Brigade consisted of three battalions—the 2/30th, 2/29th, and 2/26th and was supported by the 2/10th Field Artillery Regiment, as well as one platoon from the
2/4th Machine Gun Battalion.
They were supported by one company from Dalforce (named after its commander, Lieutenant-Colonel John Dalley of the Malayan Police Special Branch), a local Chinese militia consisting of Communists, Nationalist supporters, and other
volunteers. As the war intensified, the Dalforce volunteers were given only three to four days of training and sent to the war front with elementary weapons. Lacking uniforms, the volunteers improvised by wearing a red triangle on their blue shirts to
avoid being mistaken for Japanese by the Australians.
The Allied forces at Kranji were to be assaulted by the Imperial Guards Division led by Major General Takuma Nishimura. 400 Imperial Guards had landed and taken Pulau Ubin, an island in the north-east of Singapore, in a feint attack on 7
February, where they encountered minimal resistance.
On 9 February, two divisions of the Japanese Twenty Fifth Army, led by Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, landed on the northwestern coast of Singapore, in the Sarimbun area. Yamashita's headquarters (HQ) was in the Sultan of Johor's
palace on Istana Bukit Serene, which offered him and his officers a bird's eye view of virtually every key target in the northern sector of Singapore Island, only 1.6 kilometres (one mile) across the Straits of Johor. Sultan Ibrahim's palace was not fired
upon by the British because any damage caused would have extensive repercussions for British-Johor ties.
The primary objective of the Japanese at Kranji was to capture Kranji village; this would let them repair the demolished Causeway in order to facilitate easy flow of reinforcements and supplies down the roads of Woodlands and Mandai, and to the
rest of the island for their vanguard force. Once the leading wave of Japanese was safely ashore, the massed Japanese artillery switched their fire to the defensive positions at Kranji. Telegraph and telephone communications were destroyed in the
bombardment and communications between the front line and command HQ were broken. At 8:30pm that night, the men of the Imperial Guards Division began the crossing from Johor in special armoured landing-crafts, collapsible boats and by
swimming.
In the early hours of 10 February, Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses during the Battle of Singapore. While moving up the Kranji River, advance landing parties from the 4th Regiment of the Imperial Guard Division found themselves
under heavy fire from Australian machine gunners and mortar teams. They also found themselves surrounded by oil slicks, which had been created by Allied personnel emptying the nearby Woodlands oil depot, to prevent its capture. A scenario
feared by Yamashita came to pass by accident; the oil was set alight by Allied small arms fire, causing many Japanese soldiers to be burnt alive. Sustaining heavy losses, Nishimura requested permission to abandon the operation. However,
Yamashita denied the request.
Maxwell, who had limited communications with his division headquarters, was concerned that his force would be cut off by fierce and chaotic fighting at Sarimbun and Jurong to the south west, involving the Australian 22nd Brigade. Maxwell's
force consequently withdrew from the seafront. This allowed the Japanese to land in increasing strength and take control of Kranji village. They also captured Woodlands, and began repairing the causeway, without encountering any Allied attacks.
Japanese light tanks, which had good buoyancy, were towed across the straits to Lim Chu Kang Road where they joined the battle at dusk. With reinforced troops and tanks advancing down Choa Chua Kang Road, the Australian troops were no
match for the tanks and fled to the hills of Bukit Panjang. The 5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) captured Bukit Timah village by the evening of 11 February.
Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, General Officer Commanding of HQ Malaya Command, drew a defence perimeter covering Kallang aerodrome, MacRitchie and Peirce reservoirs and the Bukit Timah supply depot area to ensure the integrity
of the city's defence. One line of the north-western defence perimeter was the Jurong-Kranji defence line, a narrow ridge connecting the sources of the Jurong and the Kranji Rivers, forming a natural defence line protecting the north-west
approach to the Singapore City. (Its counterpart was the Serangoon Line, which was sited between Kallang Airfield and Paya Lebar village on the eastern part of Singapore). The troops were to defend this Line strongly against the invading
Japanese force. The Line was defended by the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade which covered milestone 12 on Jurong Road, the 12th Indian Infantry Brigade and the reinforced 22nd Australian Brigade which guarded the northern part of the Line and
maintained contact with the 44th Indian Brigade. The 15th Indian Infantry Brigade was re-positioned near Bukit Timah Road to guard the island's vital food and petrol supplies. A secret instruction to protect this area was issued to Percival's
generals.
Percival's secret orders to withdraw to the last defence line around the city only if necessary were misunderstood by Maxwell, who took this to be an order for an immediate withdrawal to the Line. As a result, the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade, the 12th
Indian Infantry Brigade and the 22nd Australian Brigade, reinforced after their withdrawal from Sarimbun beach in the north-west, abandoned the Line on 10 February. Fearing that the large supplies depot would fall into Japanese hands should
they make a rush for Bukit Timah too soon, General Archibald Wavell, Allied commander-in-chief of the Far East sent an urgent message to Percival:
It is certain that our troops in Singapore Island heavily outnumber any Japanese who have crossed the Straits. We must destroy them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out in the
Bataan Peninsula against a far heavier odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans. The Chinese with an almost lack of modern equipment have held the Japanese for four and a half years. It will be disgraceful if we
yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces.
By 11 February, the Jurong-Kranji Defence Line was left undefended which allowed the Japanese forces to sweep through the Line to attack Bukit Timah. On the same day, Percival finally moved his Combined Operations Headquarters in Sime
Road to the underground bunker, The Battle Box at Fort Canning.
Despite their fighting spirit, the Dalforce fighters suffered from poor training and the lack of equipment. A further blow was delivered when the 27th Australian Brigade withdrew southwards. As a result, the Japanese established a stronghold in the
northern Woodlands area and secured a relatively easy passage into the island. General Wavell left Singapore for Java early on 11 February and sent a cable to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London on his assessment of the war front
in Singapore:
Battle for Singapore is not going well... I ordered Percival to stage counter-attack with all troops possible... Morale of some troops is not good and none is as high as I should like to see... The chief troubles are lack of sufficient training in some
reinforcing troops and an inferior complex which bold Japanese tactics and their command of the air have caused. Everything possible is being done to produce more offensive spirit and optimistic outlook. But I cannot pretend that these efforts
have been entirely successful up to date. I have given the most categorical orders that there is to be no thought of surrender and that all troops are to continue fighting to the end...
By 12 February, the Imperial Guards had captured the reservoirs and Nee Soon village. The defending troops, by this time, were badly shaken. Thousands of exhausted and frightened stragglers left the fighting to seek shelter in large buildings. On
the same night, British forces in the east of the island had begun to withdraw towards the city.
On 13 February, the Japanese 5th Division continued its advance and reached Adam and Farrer Roads to capture the Sime Road Camp. Yamashita moved his HQ forward to the bomb-damaged Ford Factory in Bukit Timah. Heading southwards,
the Japanese 18th Division advanced into Pasir Panjang, where the last major battle of Singapore would be fought with the Malay Regiments at Bukit Chandu.
In 1995, the former battle sites of Kranji and the defence line were gazetted by the National Heritage Board as two of the eleven World War II sites of Singapore.
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This church on Warwick Road in Acocks Green is St Mary the Virgin. It is the Parish Church of Acocks Green.
It is a Grade II listed building, since July 2009, possibly to help it with renovations (can't find listing on Heritage Gateway but it is on the Acocks Green History Society's website).
997/0/10468 WARWICK ROAD
23-JUL-09 Acocks Green
Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin
II
An Anglican parish church in broadly C13 style, designed by J G Bland, dating from 1864-1882 with extensions of 1891-4 by J A Chatwin.
MATERIALS: The church is constructed from two colours of local sandstone, apart from red brick walls to the exterior of the transept arches marking the impact of WWII bombing; the roofs of the main church are of concrete tile, and those of the east ends of the aisles are of slate.
PLAN: The church is orientated north east-south west, though ritual compass points are used throughout this description. The plan has nave, north and south aisles, chancel, north vestry, south organ chamber and north porch.
EXTERIOR: The exterior is of red sandstone with cream sandstone dressings. The long elevations have five bays to the clerestoried nave, and a slightly lower two-bay chancel. The westernmost nave bays have aisle windows of three lights below clusters of trefoils, set into pointed archways with colonnettes with carved capitals including foliage and human heads. The clerestory windows above are paired plain lancets. In place of the transepts are continuations of the aisle in brick, with four lancets. The north porch has a steeply-gabled roof and elaborate Early English doorway with zig-zag and foliate decoration. The north vestry is also gabled, and has a further lean-to vestry with similar windows to those in the nave. The south side is similar but has a flush doorway instead of a porch in the western bay, and a C20 brick extension at the east end. The north and south sides of the chancel each have two tall two-light windows with trefoils above, running full height. The west end has a tall window of paired lancets with cusped decoration and a circular window above, with carved foliate decoration to the spandrels, and a drip mould with zig-zag decoration. Below this is a blind arcade of eight pointed arches carried on colonnettes with composite capitals and a continuous drip mould with zig-zag carving. The east window has Decorated tracery, giving five tall lights, quatrefoils and cinqefoils, and glazed spandrels.
INTERIOR: The interior has whitewashed brick walls above stone arcades. The five-bay arcades are of pointed arches in bands of red and cream sandstone, which spring from short, round piers carried on very high bases, with carved foliate capitals. The nave has an arch-braced collar-rafter roof whose trusses are carried on moulded stone corbels; the chancel roof is a timber barrel vault. The floor of the aisles is of large stone flags, and that to the east end is in polychrome tile. The westernmost bay is screened from the main body of the church by a pierced timber screen. The pews, which, like most of the furnishings were lost in the bombing of the church, have been replaced with chairs. The chancel arch and transept arches spring from slender clustered columns with foliate capitals carved by Bridgman of Lichfield. The interior of the church is dominated by the sumptuous east end. The chancel windows have red and cream banded stone surrounds, and those to the north and south sides are divided by full-height, slender clusters of columns rising to foliate capitals which serve as corbels for the trusses of the roof. A high and elaborate carved alabaster reredos, made in 1903, again by Bridgman of Lichfield, depicts Christ in Majesty, flanked by angels carrying the symbols of the Passion. Matching panels with statues of the Archangels in canopied niches are set to either side of the reredos, and the alabaster carvings are carried around the returns. Above the reredos, in a Decorated window, is a stained glass window from designs by Burne-Jones and Philip Webb, depicting the Crucifixion. The timber altar has painted angels in Pre-Raphaelite style. The altarpiece is carved from Devonshire marble, and has niches to either end housing figures of angels. The font and other furnishings date from after the church's restoration in the 1950s, including a polygonal timber pulpit with canopy by P B Chatwin.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The church has a LYCH GATE in the west boundary wall of the plot. This has a buttressed sandstone base with a timber superstructure, under a hipped roof with slate covering, surmounted by a cream-coloured terracotta cross. Timber gates are mounted in the gateway.
HISTORY: The Church of St Mary the Virgin was begun in 1864, to designs by J G Bland, as a chapel of ease to St Eadburgha's in Yardley. The building, consisting of part of the nave, north and south aisles and north porch, was intended to have transepts, chancel, vestries and a south-west tower added at a later date. Subsequent phases of building were dependent on donations, and progressed slowly. The church was consecrated in 1866, and a parish was created in 1867, out of part of the parish of St Eadburgha. In 1878, work to complete the nave began, with the addition of transept arches and chancel arch. From 1891-2, the church was further enlarged, by J A Chatwin, who added the chancel, organ chamber and vestries; the work was not completed until 1894. A stained glass window by Morris and Co to designs by Burne-Jones was added in 1895, in memory of Reverend Frederick Thomas Swinburn, late Vicar of Acock's Green; it was paid for by his widow. Further stained glass was installed by various other benefactors, including a large west window by Hardman and Co. In 1903, an elaborate alabaster reredos, carved by Bridgman of Lichfield, was added to the east end.
In 1940, the church suffered a direct hit from a large incendiary bomb, which landed at the crossing. The church was badly damaged, with the loss of the roofs, internal furnishings, and most of the stained glass and other decoration. Remarkably, the west window and reredos survived with only minute damage, and the arcades were very little damaged, with the structure remaining sound. The church was repaired, with some modifications, during the 1950s: the steeply-pitched roof was replaced with a shallower roof, and the height of the clerestory increased; the circular clerestory windows were replaced with taller, rectangular windows. New furnishings were donated, including a new font, pulpit and west screen. The transepts and tower were never built.
SOURCES: Carew-Cox, A and Waters, W: Edward Burne-Jones - Stained Glass in Birmingham Churches (1998)
Pevsner, N and Wedgwood, A: The Buildings of England: Warwickshire (1966), 143-4
History of the County of Warwick (Victoria County History), Volume 7: City of Birmingham (1964), 391
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* The original church was a lively composition of 1865 by a recognised regional architect, J G Bland
* This was enhanced by additions by J A Chatwin, the prolific West Midlands church architect, in the 1890s
* Although the church was badly damaged by enemy action in 1940, and the proposed tower and transepts were never added, the church as it stands retains much historic fabric of good quality, and was fully restored in the 1950s
* The damage and losses (of some interest in their own right, for showing the impact of the 1940 Blitz) are outweighed by the survival of the sumptuous and high-quality carved alabaster reredos, and the large stained glass east window, made by Morris and Co from designs by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.
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Skyla Moonwall leans heavily on the railing. These last few days have been...not so good. Even for an ostensibly emotionless super-soldier, or whatever it was Sky was insinuating for that day. She watches the waves roll in silence, thinking of her....friend. Yeah, her friend. Not neutral or whatever crap she usually pulls. What was that fight even about? She didn't fully understand...but matters of the heart were not exactly her strong suit, and she supposed it had to do with that L word again. Different with Em than with Dero sure...but still hard to deal with.
Emberen Twine swipes hastily at the few tears that dare to fall, her face hardening with determination. "Not crying," she whispers to herself. She shakes her head, deciding that this was a bad idea. The trip across the city had never seemed so long, and yet, now, all she wanted to do was leave. She sighs heavily and stands, eyes darting to the roof line, marking her landing spot for her jump.
Skyla Moonwall looks down at the bag of cotton candy held in her bandaged hands, then out to the protean waves once more, debating chucking the whole thing in. What had she told him? Like a block of C4 set off in her belly. She huffed a little and turned to the person nearby on the railing, lifting the bag of pink fluff. "You want some cotton candy?" she asked in her affectless tone, jiggling the bag for emphasis. That must seem...incredibly strange, at best.
Emberen Twine halts, ears perking to the sound of Skyla's voice. She glances over her shoulder, body quickly following her gaze. She gasps...was that....cotton candy? She inhales sharply, releasing a series of wimpering sobs as she watches Skyla offer the bag of fluff to the man. "Nuuu," she whispers, not wanting to be seen, but not wanting her candy to be taken either.
Skyla Moonwall could not have heard that whisper. She couldn't have...but she holds the bag up without turning around and gives it the slightest shake. Her powers of observation and her senses were honed well, but she also seemed to have some sort of connection to the cat...inexplicable, undefinable.
Emberen Twine's eyes widen as the bag is displayed and she knows it is for her benefit. She starts forward, but halts, body tilting as she loses her balance only regaining it with some serious effort. Her heart breaks a little as she ponders that bag of fluff, not becasue she wanted it so badly, but because it meant that Skyla had thought of her, and that meant more than anything. Her bottom lip quivers as more tears flow from stinging eyes and she hops down to the ledge below, landing hard dropping to her knees with a characteristic lack of grace. She lets out a mrowl, checking to see if Sky was really aware of her like she hoped.
Skyla Moonwall brought the bag back down in her hands, draped over the railing, swinging precariously over the sands full of needles and used condoms and all sorts of things that would render cotton candy inedible. She swings it back and forth like a pendulum, and can only imagine the cat's eyes following its every motion. Ember's presence nearly radiates from her, the heat striking against Sky's back like a summer day. Maybe that was in her head... She heard the other expel a soft noise and slipped her grip on the bag, letting it slide a bit closer to the sands.
Emberen Twine's eyes widen as she watches that bag swinging and she lets out another gasp as she recovers from her rough landing. She scrambles off the awning, a sloppy mess of skinned knees and tear-stained cheeks, and bolts toward Skyla, the pounding of her feet quickening as they near the woman's back and skittering to a stop just behind her. She brethes in heaving, soggy gasps as she waits to be acknowledged.
Skyla Moonwall tightens her grip on the bag, saving it from the abyss. She turns on her heel slowly when she hear the patter of Em's feet--graceful despite the cotton candy induced panic. Her cool gaze fixes on the other's, her mask disappearing in a sea of concern as she notes the vestiges of the horror that was last night still marring the cat's face. She says nothing for a time, simply watching as she is prone to do. Wordlessly, her arms open and spread wide in what might seem an uncharacterstic beckoning.
Emberen Twine watches Skyla intently, eyes darting to the bag as she saves it from its impending doom, then darting once more to Sky questioningly. Her brows knit with sorrow as Sky watches her, and she heaves in a breath as arms open to her, releasing a shuttering volley of sobs, and throwing her arms around the woman, momentarily forgetting about the fluffy bribe. "I'm so sorry," she whimpers pathetically.
Skyla Moonwall folds her arms around her friend, warm, protective, loving even. She was pretty sure she could throw that in there now. "Don't be sorry...I'm pretty sure it was my fault." She releases the cat from her ninja hug of doom and steps back, hands still placed lightly on her shoulders. "Probably was a full moon or something crazy last night." She offers a small smile. She holds out the bag of cotton candy. Who knows where the hell she got it from? "Let's not make a habit of this, yeah?"
Emberen Twine wipes her eyes on the back of her arm once she is released from the hug and nods, lips still caught in full pout. She continues to sniffle as she takes the bag gingerly in both hands and holds it up, examining it with the tiniest of smiles. "I cried all night and most of today." She shakes her head, as she shifts her gaze to Skyla. "I ran out of tears until I saw you. I lo...." She almost says it again, but stops herself, pauses briefly, and recovers..."I lost my mind with worry over everything."
Skyla Moonwall folds her hands before her, pressing her lips together. She had Em's letter in her pocket, of course, but she had no intent of leaving now and decided perhaps it was best to keep that to herself. It would just make the cat cry more. "I hate to see you cry," she murmurs, her fingers tracing her tattoo. "I guess I'm not very good at these things, but my intent was only to protect you. I don't know how things got so....twisty."
Emberen Twine: Em knew EXACTLY how things got twisty, but she wasn't going to bring THAT up now. That would only make Skyla angry again. "I hate crying," she responds soggily. "I just...I just...I'm not very good at this stuff either," she lies. Her respect for Skyla was, actually, imeasurable, and she didn't want to do anything that would upset her. She inhales deeply, and releases the breath slowly, hands rubbing at her eyes in an effort to rid them of the last of her tears. If Skyla didn't want her to cry, she was going to do her best not to!
Skyla Moonwall watches her with a softened look in her normally knife-edged eyes. She had never had...this. Maybe once, when she was young. Before she was recruited and trained and changed. She thought she might have had a friend back then. A guy with brown hair, she thought. Even before, Sky was never really good with her own gender. Too rough and tumble. Even before. She lowers her voice, "You can hardly imagine the pain of hurting someone you care about by not being able to convince them that you do indeed care."
Emberen Twine had an idea of how it felt. She had told Sky she loved her and felt it was denied. She keeps quiet though, simply nodding in response. Finally, after a moment which felt like forever, she says,"I know you care." Her eyes drop to her bag of cotton candy awkwardly, now unsure of her perameters where Miss Skyla is concerned.
Skyla Moonwall nods absently. "I try to, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right." She brushes her hair from her eye and lets out a breath. "I keep fucking stuff up. Just when I thought I was healing." She gestures to the bag. "Go ahead. It's yours. I don't really like the stuff." A light smile.
Emberen Twine smiles in kind, ears perking attentively to her words. She remains silent, thankful to have something to busy herself with, some reason to be quiet. But something tugs at her, something that she can't keep in. "Maybe...maybe you are stuck on what you ~think~ things should be instead of seeing what they are," she mews softly, barely above a whisper. She shoves a piece of cotton candy in her mouth, cursing it for melting so quickly, and waiting to be told she is wrong.
Skyla Moonwall feels a keen flash of anger, lighting up in her eyes, but she offers a grace that no one else would receive and douses the fire before she can expel it. She would not do that to Em. She lets out a long breath and says quietly, "No, Ember. I know what things should be, and I know what they are. And I know I had no choice, and I know I can't go back." She glances up at Ember, eyes clear now. "Very little in this world gives me pause, but I am awestruck by how much you and Dero show me love, despite my shortcomings in returning it."
Emberen Twine shrugs, her stomach briefly knotting as she senses Skyla's turn of emotion, or, perhaps it is merely in her head. "Love is like that. You can't expect others to love the same way you do. They show it differently. And, if you can gain an understanding of them, then you can see a return on what you offer." She grimaces, shoving another piece of fluff in her mouth, the whispy edges sticking out of closed lips as she munches. "Anyway...you don't have to worry about me saying it any more. I don't want to make you angry." Though she felt sure she would, eventually.
Skyla Moonwall rolls her shoulders. "I overreacted." The understatement of the year! She starts to remind Ember that she doesn't love, but recalls that was partially the start of the whole mess. But it was incredibly difficult here, with constant reminders of her differences, her limitations. Being tested in ways she was not meant to be. She reached into her back pocket and pulled out a photocard of a young man with dark hair and searing blue eyes. "My brother. How I feel about him is my baseline for what I consider 'love.' I don't really feel it...I just compare it to my thoughts of Ben to know if it is true or not."
Emberen Twine chews her lip briefly, eyes scanning over the picture before returning back to Skyla. She is hit with an instant sadness, not truly understanding about base-lines and comparisons. Ember is do or do not. "What happened to him," she asks softly, unsure if she can really handle the answer.
Skyla Moonwall tucks the picture back in her pocket. "He died," she says flatly. "Just recently. He was sick for a long time." Her jaw tightens. "Sometimes you can't help someone, no matter how hard you try." Though that never stoped her from trying, in any circumstance.
Emberen Twine murrs softly, a sound she often makes instinctually when she wants to offer comfort. "I'm sorry," she whispers. She has nothing to offer her friend. No way of comforting her without making her angry. Skyla was leading the dance now, and Em was content to hang as far back and give her as much space as Skyla needed. "So...what is it you feel when I see you look at Dero? It looks like...it looks genuine."
Skyla Moonwall nods, biting down on her lip hard. "It's all right. He was taken care of quite well." Offers a bitter smile strangely at odds with the statement. She shifts silently in the street a moment when Ember strikes out with her direct question. She nods. "It's easy for me to handle men as business. It's what I do. I was worried for a long while that I really was just working him over. But I look at him and...think of him nearly as much as I do Ben. More, sometimes." She nods. "I think that I must love him, to feel for him as much as I did my own brother," she says, knowing Ember will realize the difference in the feelings for her brother and that man.
Emberen Twine's face betray both understanding and a touch of hurt. It's selfish hurt, and she dismisses it quickly. "You focus on definitions a lot," she says quietly, shying away a little, still unsure if she should let her mouth move without the benefit of censor. She smiles, hoping to cover some of her trepidation, though, given her propensity for failing as a lier, it may not work.
Skyla Moonwall nods slowly. "I have to...I don't have the luxury of literally 'feeling' it. I have to set boundaries, clean lines that lay out what I am supposed to be feeling, how to react. It's a battle, everyday." She gives Em a small smile and reaches out for her hand. "I used to protect Ben a lot. People said I could be like a pitbull when he was in trouble." She offers a softer smile. "And you draw that out in me as well, so I know where to put you."
Emberen Twine vibrates, eyes filling with the tears which had only recently dried as Skyla picks up her jelousy and smacks it out of the city. Her body quivers as the tears pool threateningly in her lower lids, cresting defiantly, and plummeting down her cheeks. The words meant so much and she felt them in the deepest recesses of her heart. What she had offered, was returned, and it overwhelmed her. She lowers her head in a vain attempt to hide her face, fingers plucking some cotton candy and lingering as they feed her mouth.
Skyla Moonwall gives her a look of panic as the tears well up once more. "No!" she says, almost urgent. "Please don't cry." She knew it was like asking the sun not to come out though. And she couldn't blame Ember. She was actually a bit envious that the emotions locked off from Sky flowed so easily from the other. She squeezed her hand. "I fought with Ben, too. A -lot-. But we never stayed mad at each other for more than a day or so, regardless of how severe."
Emberen Twine releases the sobs, throwing her arms around Skyla once more. She had lost a sister, and now...she gained another. She promised she wouldn't say 'I love you' out loud, but that doesn't stop her from thinking it as she clings to the woman. "I'm trying not to cry,"s he mewls pitifully. "Honest."
Skyla Moonwall allows the cat to ninja hug her. Where her normal inclination would be to shy away from the touch, she leans in to return the hug. "I know you're trying," she says. "It just kills me to see." And it really did. Her sense of compassion was left well intact, and seeing Ember cry often left her vacillating between unease and anger at whatever was the source behind those tears.
Emberen Twine lingers in hold for several moments before pulling away. "You have to know that not all tears are the same. These aren't the same tears that fall when someone is hurting me. They are good tears. Relieved tears." Yes...they were hurting tears too, but that is something Ember has learned to appreciate over the years. Happy often hurt her as much as sad. She did not question why, nor did she ever bother to explain it to others, as observation had taught her it was specific to her. "I'm happy. It's good," she asserts with a nod.
Skyla Moonwall tilts her head, not quite understanding. In her mind, any tears were bad tears, betrayors of weakness. "Oh...ok." She gives a nod back. "As long as you're not hurt..." she said with a lift of her brows. She folded her arms over her chest when Em released her from the hug, standing slightly off again like a normal Sky
Emberen Twine nods and swipes at the tears. "I am. Very happy," she mews soggily. "I'm just happy you aren't angry with me anymore...and that...that you would want to protect me." She sighs heavily, still trying to quell the water works as she teears off some more cotton candy and flattens it between her lips. "I don't know how I ever lived without this before," she says referring to the candy as it melts in her mouth...and on her hands...and on her lips.
Skyla Moonwall suddenly wished she carried wetnaps in her considerable arsenal, having been privy once before to Em's cotton candy issues. She flips her a light smile. "Even if I am angry with you, I will always protect you," she says, reaching over to tear off some of the sweet fluff. She makes a face as it dissolves in her mouth. "Ember, that is so fucking sweet...how can you eat that?"
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Donald Trump unveils child-care policy influenced by Ivanka Trump
By Sean Sullivan and Robert Costa
ASTON, Pa. — Donald Trump, in softer tones than he normally uses, on Tuesday unveiled several policy proposals for lowering child-care costs that were crafted in part by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, including a plan to guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave that marks a striking departure from GOP orthodoxy.
Conservative Republicans, in particular, have long seen a mandated expansion of the social safety net as anathema to their attempts to shrink government spending and give companies more control over their leave policies.
In a speech here, the Republican presidential nominee proposed ensuring six weeks of paid maternity leave to mothers who do not already receive leave from their employer.
"We need working mothers to be fairly compensated for their work, and to have access to affordable, quality child care for their kids," said Trump, who appeared determined to show off a more sensitive side than most are accustomed to seeing from him. He used a subdued delivery that contrasted with his tendency at larger rallies to raise his voice. After his speech, he held up a baby in the crowd.
Campaign officials said the maternity leave program wouldn't cost taxpayers anything more; instead, it would be financed through savings achieved by eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program. The plan would apply to mothers and would not be transferable to fathers.
Trump also laid out specific plans for enabling parents to deduct the cost of child-care expenses from their income taxes. Trump first mentioned allowing parents to “fully deduct” expenses last month when he announced his economic agenda in Detroit. Some of these expenses are already deductible under the law.
A fact sheet released by the Trump campaign proposed to "rewrite the tax code to allow working parents to deduct from their income taxes child care expenses for up to four children and elderly dependents.”
That deduction would be capped at the “average cost of care” in the state of residence, and it would not be available to individuals earning more than $250,000 or a couple earning more than $500,000.
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Ivanka Trump introduced her father here in Aston, marking her formal return to the campaign trail weeks after she introduced him at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. The 34-year-old is a high-ranking executive at the Trump Organization and the mother of three young children. Her husband, investor Jared Kushner, has become an influential adviser to his father-in-law.
She said that she was "grateful" for the means to raise her three children and also pursue a career. Many women don't have that luxury, she added.
"This must change. As a society we need to create policies that champion all parents, enabling the American family to thrive," said Ivanka Trump.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has proposed guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family leave. Responding to Trump's maternity leave proposal, Clinton's senior adviser for policy Maya Harris said that by focusing solely on leave policies that benefit women, Trump may actually be hurting their cause, contributing to the attrition of women from the workplace after childbirth and the gender pay gap.
"We’re not living in a 'Mad Men' era anymore where only women are taking care of infants," Harris said. "It's just completely unserious."
At the start of his speech, Trump was joined onstage by several women Republican members of Congress.
"This is a family issue," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). "We know men always want more money. What do women want? More time. And we are thrilled to finally have a president of the United States who is going to put the focus on working with women to make certain you can achieve your American dream."
Trump thanked Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), the fourth-ranking Republican in the U.S. House.
Also included in Trump's Tuesday’s proposals: additional spending rebates through the Earned Income Tax Credit, expanded deduction opportunities for stay-at-home parents, and revised federal savings accounts to set aside funds for child development and educational needs.
Before Trump gave his speech, he participated in a more intimate roundtable discussion.
According to Trump aides, Ivanka Trump has encouraged her father for weeks to detail policies that would appeal to parents who feel overburdened or underserved by existing programs, following up on the theme that coursed through her remarks at the convention.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who has grown close with Ivanka, also played a role in making child-care policy a priority, with an eye toward winning over female voters in places such as the vote-rich Philadelphia suburbs, the aides said.
Trump won some of his loudest applause lines when he mentioned Clinton's recent comment that half of his supporters are a "basket of deplorables."
"While my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable, I call you, hard-working American Patriots who love your country," said Trump.
Costa reported from Washington. Abby Phillip contributed.