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Lim Bo Seng, Chinese businessman, resistance fighter of Force 136 and war hero of Singapore (died 1944)
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Lim Bo Seng
Chinese resistance fighter (1909–1944)
Lim Bo Seng was a resistance fighter who played a crucial role in the anti-Japanese movement in Singapore and Malaya during World War II. Born in Fujian, China, he moved to Singapore at a young age and was educated at Raffles Institution (RI) before pursuing engineering at the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Force 136
Military unit
Force 136 was a far eastern branch of the British World War II intelligence organisation, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Originally set up in 1941 as the India Mission with the cover name of GSI(k), it absorbed what was left of SOE's Oriental Mission in April 1942. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Singapore
Country in Southeast Asia
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
April 27
Day of the year
April 27 is the 117th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 248 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)