What did it feel like to go to war? Hopefully, it’s something you and I will never find out in our lifetime. Resistance fighter’s Lim Bo Seng war diary gives us a unique perspective on our memory of the wartime past, and his diary is now housed at the Memories at Old Ford Factory.
Lim Bo Seng was an anti-Japanese resistance fighter who helped set up the guerilla group Force 136 in 1942. For two years, Force 136 conducted espionage missions in occupied Singapore and Malaya, with the aim of setting up a spy network for the eventual re-taking of the peninsula by the British. Sadly, the force was betrayed in 1944 and was quashed.
Lim Bo Seng died a war hero under torture and a prisoner of the Japanese. This journal was written during the period before he joined Force 136 for training and describes his experiences at the training.
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