Local War Hero- LimBoSeng

The Terrible Years

Local War Hero

Singapore was attacked !!!

Major areas of attack : Tengah Airfield, Kranji, Bukit Timah, City areas

Surrender of the British 15 Feb 1942 – "Black Sunday“

NAVAL BASENAVAL BASE

SURRENDER SURRENDER PERIMETERPERIMETER

MANDAI/NEE SOON

BUKIT TIMAH

PASIR PANJANG

15 FEB 194215 FEB 1942

TENGAH

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Lim Bo Seng• wealthy businessman , born in 1909• Lim came to Singapore in 1917 to study in the

Raffles Institution of Singapore, at the age of 16.

• further his studies in the University of Hong Kong

• In 1930, Lim married Gan Choo Neo, a Nyonya woman

One of our War HeroOne of our War Hero

ANTI-JAPANESE ANTI-JAPANESE GROUPSGROUPS

• Force 136 – Secret British organisation to

organise sabotage activities– locals were also recruited– trained secretly in India and sent to

Malaya to help MPAJA– Lim Bo Seng was one of the leaders– Captured in Mar 1944 and tortured

to death

Life as a Force 136 veteran• On February 11

• before the fall of Singapore

• Lim left his family

• Fled from Singapore to Sumatra

• With other Chinese community leaders

Death by torture• Lim was tortured for refusing to reveal the

names of MPAJA leaders

• Though, he never uttered a single word about pain and refused to give up information about Force 136.

• Lim eventually died in the early hours of June 29, 1944.

Lim Bo Seng Memorial in Singapore

DEATH RAILWAYDEATH RAILWAY

Singapore Under Japanese Singapore Under Japanese RuleRule

Singapore Under Japanese Singapore Under Japanese RuleRule

CHANGI PRISON CHAPELCHANGI PRISON CHAPEL

THE WATER TREATMENTTHE WATER TREATMENT

“…..our captors beat us up, subject us to electric shocks and pumped us up with water as part of the interrogation routine.

The feeling of having one’s belly pumped full of water and then seeing the water gushing out of the body was hardly bearable.”

The Water Treat-ment

Our role model• Lim Bo Seng is a national hero in

Singapore for his resistance to Japanese forces during World War II.

• Also, without him, there will not be the modern Singapore today.

Ultimately !!• NOW !!

• Lets us look at some of the photos about how the Japanese torture human being

This is how they torture

them !!

See how CRUEL

they are !!

The fall of singapore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpiDwPpo-e0

(The fall of singapore-world war 2)

Our Sources• Secondary two History Text Book.

• Wikipedia information of lim bo seng.

• Google for pictures

• www.baidu.com(china webside)--- japanese torture pictures.

• Yahooother extra informations given in the power point slides.

• YouTube for Video

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