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{{short description|Battle of the Malayan Campaign in World War II}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Battle of Gemas
| image = GemenchehBridge.jpg
| image_size = 300
| caption = [[Gemensah Bridge|Gemencheh Bridge]] in 1945.
| partof = the [[Battle of Muar]] — [[Malayan Campaign]] — [[Pacific War]] — [[World War II]]
| date = 14 January 1942
| place = [[Gemencheh|Sungei Gemencheh]], [[Negeri Sembilan]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]]
| result =
| combatant1 = {{flag|Australia}}
| combatant2 = {{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}
| commander1 = [[Frederick Galleghan]]
| commander2 = [[Mukaide|Col. Mukaide]]
| units1 = [[2/30th Battalion (Australia)|2/30th Battalion]]
| units2 = [[5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)|Japanese 5th Division]]
| strength1 = 1 battalion
| strength2 = 1 column
| casualties1 =
8 killed, 80 wounded, unknown captured, unknown missing
| casualties2 =
| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Malaya}}
{{Campaignbox South-East Asian Theatre}}
}}
The '''Battle of Gemas'''—part of the wider [[Battle of Muar]]—took place during the Japanese [[Battle of Malaya|invasion of Malaya]] in the [[Pacific War|Pacific Campaign]] of the [[Second World War]]. The action occurred on 14 January 1942 at the [[Gemencheh]] Bridge near [[Gemas]] and saw
==Battle==
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==Aftermath==
[[File:Kelamah River Memorial (Flagpoles and Monument) (280824) (cropped).jpg|thumb|A memorial [[obelisk]] dedicated to the fallen men in the Battle of Gemas, near the remnants of the old Gemencheh Bridge]]
The battle following the ambush, and a further action closer to Gemas during which the Australian anti-tank gunners from the [[2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment (Australia)|2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment]] destroyed six out of eight Japanese tanks, lasted another two days.<ref>Long 1973, pp. 140–141.</ref> The fighting ended with the Australians withdrawing through Gemas to the Fort Rose Estate. According to Coulthard-Clark, total Japanese casualties in the wider battle numbered over 1,000, while the Australians lost 81 killed, wounded or missing;<ref name=Coulthard197/> Allen Warren provides figures of 70 killed and 57 wounded in the initial engagement.<ref>Warren 2002, p. 156</ref>▼
▲The battle following the ambush, and a further action closer to Gemas during which the Australian anti-tank gunners from the [[2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment (Australia)|2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment]] destroyed six out of eight Japanese tanks, lasted another two days.<ref>Long 1973, pp. 140–141.</ref> The fighting ended with the Australians withdrawing through Gemas to the Fort Rose Estate. According to Coulthard-Clark, total Japanese casualties in the wider battle numbered over
Despite the tactical victory at Gemas, as well as strong stands later at [[Battle of Muar#Siege of Bakri|Bakri]], the [[22nd Brigade (Australia)|22nd Australian Brigade’s]] ambush north of Jemaluang and the fighting withdrawal from Muar, the Japanese advance down the Malay Peninsula was only temporarily slowed.<ref>Dennis et al 2008, p. 342.</ref>
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[[Category:Australia–Japan military relations]]
[[Category:January 1942 events]]
[[Category:Ambushes in Malaysia]]
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