Lim Bo Seng was a Chinese man born in 1909 who came to Singapore in 1917 to study. He married a Nonya woman in 1930. During World War 2, he helped raise funds and organize boycotts against Japan as part of the British Force 136 resistance movement. However, he withstood torture without revealing any information about Force 136 and became ill in 1944 from the treatment he endured.