Meet Arthur Poskitt

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Meet Arthur Poskitt. This is his picture. He is nearing his eighties, and between January 1948 and June 1949 he served in Singapore as a Signalman with the Royal Corps of Signals. He shares about his time in Singapore with Chun See of Good Morning Yesterday.

This is Arthur’s introduction:

I served in Singapore as a Signalman and ran a drawing office at a village called Yio Chu Kang for about eighteen months with the Royal Corps of Signals.

My main duties were supervising line parties to repair underground communication cables and service test huts as the location of all underground cable routes were destroyed at the onset of the Japanese occupation.

While I was in Singapore I took the opportunity of taking several hundred pictures of the area through the eyes of a national serviceman. I covered the whole Island from the Causeway and the southern islands then known as Blakang Mati now known as Santosa, Paulu Brani and other islands in the area.

Pictures include army life under canvas and city street scenes which no longer exist!

What a treasure! Read Chun See’s blog for a look at Arthur Poskitt’s photographs.

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