Interview with Charlie Gan

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Chinese private served with Signals Section, 2nd Bn Straits Settlements Volunteer Force in Singapore, Malaya, 9/1939-2/1942; civilian worked with Electrical Department of Singapore Municipality in Singapore, Malaya, 1942-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Singapore, 1919-1939: family; education. Recollections of period with Signal Section, 2nd Bn Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force Bde, Fortress Singapore Div, Malaya Command in Malaya, 1939-1941: reasons for joining unit; duties with Signal Section; nature of training; question of degree of anticipation of coming war; British preparations for defence Singapore; mobilisation of volunteers, 11/1941; area unit was sent to defend; signals role during active duty. REEL 2 Continues: hearing of Japanese landings at Kota Bharu; experiences of Imperial Japanese Army Air Service raid, 8/12/1941; reaction to Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombing; problems signallers faced during Imperial Japanese Army Air Service air raids; role during fighting; meeting retreating British Army and British Indian Army troops in grounds of Raffles Institution; effect on volunteers morale; option given to volunteers to demobilise or surrender; atmosphere on walk to home. REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of his screening and interrogation by Japanese authorities in Singapore, Malaya, 2/1942-3/1942: reunion with family; experiences in concentration centre; registration procedure at concentration centre; release from concentration centre; relatives who were taken away by Japanese authorities after screening; attitude towards Japanese after initial experiences. REEL 4 Continues: background to reporting to Kempeitai and loss of cousin; hearing from cousin of Japanese authorities' promise to ex-Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces personnel; reasons why he decided to surrender to Kempeitai; disappearance of cousin; experiences in hands of Kempeitai at Kempeitai East District Branch Headquarters and St Joseph's Institute; leaving and having to report again; question of not knowing fate of first batch of ex-Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces personnel taken away. REEL 5 Continues: nature of interrogation of Kempeitai. Recollections of period working for Electrical Department of Singapore Municipality in Singapore, Malaya, 1942-1945: reasons why he decided to work; nature of Electrical Department; Japanese attitudes to different races; rations received in office; working conditions in office; morning ritual in office; attitude to learning Japanese language. REEL 6 Continues: recreational activities; clandestine listening to British Broadcasting Corporations radio broadcasts; how family managed financially during occupation; father's forced contribution to Japanese war fund; celebrations after Japanese surrender, 15/8/1945; question of how Japanese occupation affected him; attitude to British payment to ex-Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces personnel after 1945; attitude to British conduct of war. REEL 7 Continues: question of how his attitude towards British changed as result of Japanese occupation.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: National Archive of Singapore (Production company)
Low, Lay Leng (Recorder)
Gan, Charlie (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1984-12-11
Dimensions: whole: Duration 200, Number Of Items 7
Catalogue number: 20388

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