LIM BO SENG
Name: Lim Bo Seng
Alias: Tan Choon Lim
Born: 27 April 1909 Nan'an, Fujian, China
Died: 29 June 1944 Batu Gajah Jail, Malaya
Lim Bo Seng (April 27, 1909 - June 29, 1944) was a World War II anti-Japanese
Resistance fighter who was based in Singapore and Malaya.
Born in 1909 to Lim Loh alias Lim Chee Geee, a wealthy businessman who owned a
biscuit and brick manufacturing business in Singapore, Lim was the 11th child
but the first son. At the age of 16, Lim came to Singapore in 1917 to study in
the Raffles Institution of Singapore under the British colonial government, and
later went on to further his studies in the University of Hong Kong.
In 1930, Lim married Gan Choo Neo, 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.
At the time of the Second Sino-Japanese war, Lim, a loyal Chinese patriot, took
part in fund-raising on Japanese resistant forces and boycott activities of
Japanese goods organized by the Nanyang Federation.
On February 11, just before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, Lim left his
family for the last time to the care of his wife and fled from Singapore to
Sumatra with other Chinese community leaders, before making his way to India,
where he recruited and trained hundreds of secret agents through intensive
missions from the military and intelligence point of view in India and China.
Around this time, together with Captain John Davis, they set up the Sino-British
guerilla group Force 136 in mid-1942. One of his best friends and students, Tan
Chong Tee, participated actively in anti-Japanese activities until his capture
on 26 March 1944.
Name: Lim Bo Seng
Alias: Tan Choon Lim
Born: 27 April 1909 Nan'an, Fujian, China
Died: 29 June 1944 Batu Gajah Jail, Malaya
Lim Bo Seng (April 27, 1909 - June 29, 1944) was a World War II anti-Japanese
Resistance fighter who was based in Singapore and Malaya.
Born in 1909 to Lim Loh alias Lim Chee Geee, a wealthy businessman who owned a
biscuit and brick manufacturing business in Singapore, Lim was the 11th child
but the first son. At the age of 16, Lim came to Singapore in 1917 to study in
the Raffles Institution of Singapore under the British colonial government, and
later went on to further his studies in the University of Hong Kong.
In 1930, Lim married Gan Choo Neo, 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.
At the time of the Second Sino-Japanese war, Lim, a loyal Chinese patriot, took
part in fund-raising on Japanese resistant forces and boycott activities of
Japanese goods organized by the Nanyang Federation.
On February 11, just before the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, Lim left his
family for the last time to the care of his wife and fled from Singapore to
Sumatra with other Chinese community leaders, before making his way to India,
where he recruited and trained hundreds of secret agents through intensive
missions from the military and intelligence point of view in India and China.
Around this time, together with Captain John Davis, they set up the Sino-British
guerilla group Force 136 in mid-1942. One of his best friends and students, Tan
Chong Tee, participated actively in anti-Japanese activities until his capture
on 26 March 1944.