Elizabeth Choy

Although WWII was a time for heroes, where the issue of heroines are concerned, there can be only be one name and that is of Elizabeth Choy. Elizabeth Choy was born in Kudat in North Borneo and received her formal education at an Anglican missionary school in Sandakan before continuing her studies in Singapore's Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus at Victoria Street. Despite being very bright, she sacrificed her opportunity to further her studies at a tertiary level to take care of the well-being of her younger brothers and sisters.It was this selfless quality in Elizabeth Choy that made her a war heroine. During the Japanese Occupation, Elizabeth worked as a canteen operator with her husband at a hospital (currently Woodbridge Hospital) where her selfless and sacrificial quality would lead her to secretly provide food, medicine, money, messages and radios to the British internees held at the hospital. She was eventually arrested by the Japanese Kempetai together with her husband. Despite being held captive for 200 days and subjected to starvation diet and repeated torture, she never admitted to being a British sympathiser. After the war, her sacrifices were acknowledged by the British government and she was recognised as a war heroine.

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