LIM BO SENG
NATIVE CHINESE
NATIONAL HERO IN SINGAPORE FOR HIS RESISTANCE TO JAPANESE FORCES DURING WW II
MEMBER OF FORCE 136
DIED IN CAPTIVITY ON 29 JUNE 1944
Lim Bo Seng moved to Singapore as a child, he led efforts to raise funds to help China fight Japanese invasion in the late 1930s. When the Japanese captured Singapore, he escaped to India and joined Force 136, a group of resistance fighters organized by the British. He was captured after infiltrating Japanese territory in 1944; despite punishment and torture, he refused to reveal the names of other resistance fighters. Major-General Lim Bo Seng alias Tan Choon Lim was a prominent Hokkien businessman who undertook active leadership in anti-Japanese activities during World War II and is recognised as a local war hero.
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