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Narrated by: Dion,Rebecca,Hafizah

We are discussing the perspective of Singapore's own heroine: Elizabeth Choy. Elizabeth was born in Kudat in British North Borneo. Her great-grand parents had been assisting German missionaries in Hong Kong and their work brought them to North Borneo. There the Yong family set up a coconut plantation.
Her father had been the eldest in the family of two children. After completing his early education in China with some English education in North Borneo, he gained employment as a civil servant. He was transfered to Jesselton and later promoted to District Officer and moved to Kalimantan.
Elizabeth then was looked after by a Kadazan nanny and acquired Kadazan as her first language.
In her later life, she worked as a canteen operator with her husband at mental hospital reknowned as the Miyako Hospital. They secretly brought food, medicine, money, messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately, they were caught by the Japanese and Elizabeth was arrested on fifteen November 1943 following her husband's arrest on twenty nine October a few weeks earlier.
Believing that their activities were related to the Double Tenth incident, she was interrogated by the Kempeitai but she never admitted to being a British Sympathiser. She was released only after two hundred days of starvation diet and repeated torture. Her husband was released much later.
After the war, she was one of the previlaged few who were invited to Britain to recuperate from the war and was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth. She was a celebrated war heroine and stood out as the only female to have been incarcerated for such an extended period. She was decorated the Girl Guide Bronze Crossly.
The Bronze Cross,the highest award of the Girl Guide movement, is an award for gallantry. She was also conferred the Order Of The British Empire.
lizabeth was a symbol of courage and a true living testimony of the Girl Guide's Promise and law to the final moments of her life, particularly Guide Law number seven being quote' A guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties.'
A remarkable and an inspiring role model, a pioneer in Singapore girl guiding, her passing is a great loss to all of us. But let us with thanksgiving, remember Mrs Elizabeth Choy, her life living in commitment to the Promise and law, shall be a legacy to us all.
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