Mr. Lim Bo Seng, wartime hero
English name: Lim Bo Seng; Chinese name: 林谋盛; Han yu pin yin: Lín Móu Shèng; Wife: Gan Choo Neo
Birth
Lim Bo Seng was born in Nan Ann, China on 27 April He was the first son of a man who had married five times and had eighteen children. He took over his father&#;s biscuit and brick factory when his father died. Around the time when his father migrated to Singapore and set up the factory, he joined Raffles Institution in Standard Eight. Within three years, his English was proficient enough to matriculate and read Economics at Hong Kong University but he dropped out of university when his father died.
Marriage
In year , he married Gan Choo Neo. Their marriage was unusual as it had been arranged to by the couple&#;s parents. Choo Neo was a Straits-born Christian Nonya who spoke English and Malay while he was a China-born Taoist Hokkien who spoke English and Chinese. Lim Bo Seng later converted to Christianity. They had seven children.
Love for Children
Although he was stricter with the boys, he loved his children greatly, especially the younger ones. He always wanted a baby in the house. As a testimony to that, he had five out of the seven
Life in the Early Years..
Background and Early life
Lim Bo Seng was born in Nan&#;an, Fujian, China, on 27 April Lim Bo Seng had 11 siblings in his family and he was the first son in the family. In , Lim Bo Seng came to Singapore at the age of 16 and studies in Raffles Institution under the British colonial government. He went on to read business at the University of Hong Kong. In , Lim Bo Seng married Gan Choo Neo, a nyonya woman from the Lim clan association hall of Singapore. They had eight children, one of whom died in infancy. He was initially a Taoist but became Christian after his marriage to Gan.
Roles and Contributions
When the WW2 broke out, Lim Bo Seng participated in the anti-Japanese activities such as boycotting of Japanese goods and fund-raising to support the war effort of china. he is an active contributor of the China Relief Fund and also became Director of the Labour Service Department in the newly-formed Singapore Chinese Mobilization Council. He knew he will certain be a target of the Japanese hence, he escaped to India and join
He was born in Nan'an, Fujian, China, on 27 April to Lim Loh, a very rich businessman who owned a biscuit and brick manufacturing business in Singapore. When he was a boy, his family and him migrated to Malaya. Lim came to Singapore in the year when he was 16 to study in the Raffles Institution of Singapore under the British colonial government, and proceed on to further his studies later in the University of Hong Kong. In , Lim married Gan Choo Neo who is a Nonya woman in the Lim Clan association hall of Singapore. They had seven children. Initially raised as a Taoist, Lim converted to Christianity after receiving strong European influence. Each war would have a hero and each country would have a patriot whose deeds would stand the test of time. It was sixty one years ago this month, in the dark years of the Japanese Occupation in Malaya, that such a person existed. He was Lim Bo Seng.
Lim Bo Seng, in spite of his privileged background and success as a businessman, was staunchly anti-Japanese even before the war came to Malaya. An alert contributor of the China Relief Fund, he was the Director of the Labour Service Department later in the newly formed
The Inspiring Story of Lim Bo Seng: Singapore&#;s National Hero
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Known to many as a national hero of Singapore, Lim Bo Seng&#;s story of courage and patriotism paints a vivid picture of his exceptional character.
His resistance against Japanese influence began even before World War II. Lim, a prominent figure within the Chinese community in Singapore, masterminded a successful strike at a Malaya tin mine, which was owned and operated by the Japanese.
Lim Bo Seng&#;s First Battle Experience and the Formation of Force
Lim Bo Seng&#;s first encounter with direct combat occurred during the Battle of Singapore in February Standing with the British forces, Lim rallied a group of civilian volunteers to defend Singapore against Japanese troops.
Despite their valiant efforts, the Japanese eventually seized Singapore.
Undeterred by the surrender, Lim, along with Captain John Davis of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), founded Force The SOE was a covert British organization created for espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in regions controlled by the Axis powers.
Force , the Southeast Asian branch of the SOE, w
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