2. About him
Lim Bo Seng was born in China on 27 April
1909.
He was the 11th child but the first son. At the
age of 16, he came to Singapore in 1917 to
study in the Raffles Institution of Singapore.
In 1930, he married Gan Choo Neo, a Nonya
woman in the Lim Clan association hall of
Singapore.
He became ill and was bedridden by the
end of May 1944.
3. His contribution
He battled through all sorts of physical and
mental torture and duress daily but he never
uttered a single word about pain and refused to
give up information about Force 136.
He took part in fund-raising on Japanese
resistant forces and boycott activities of
Japanese goods organized by the Nanyang
Federation.