Lim Bo Seng Singapore Local War Hero

1. By : Charlotte, Ashwari, Claudia and Kwan Xin Yu

2. Family Background
 He was born in Nan'an, Fujian, China, on 27 April 1909 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 1917 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 1930, 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.