During the world war 1:
During the war, Elizabeth Choy is a teacher and founder of a school for the blind. She was in prison for almost 200 days and was torture by the Japanese in 1943. Her husband and her ran the canteen at the Japanese hospital that had received 800 civilians patients at the surrender of Singapore. Besides food and medicine, they bring messages to British internees. On October 29 her husband was arrested and confined to the Outram Road Prison. She was arrested on November 15 and taken to a cell in the old YMCA building in Orchard Road. She spent 193 days in the cell by more than 20 people in it but she was the only woman. From this she was only allowed out to be interrogated and beaten. To add to the psychological pressure on her husband, she was frequently taken out and tortured in front of her husband, stripped naked while electrodes were inserted into her body. But eventually she was released. Her husband was released some time later.

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They were subjected to interrogation under torture. But they refused to admit the names of any of those whom they had assisted. Quite apart from her celebrity as a war heroine in postwar Singapore, Elizabeth Choy became the first woman member of its Legislative Council in 1951. In 1956 became the first principal of the Singapore School for the Blind. In 1925 she and her aunt set up North Borneo’ s first Girl Guide company. Her mother died in 1931 and she had to go out to work to help to bring up her younger brothers and sisters. But although she was not able to complete her qualifications, she was able to teach.

After the war:
She worked as an artists’ and photographers’ model. The first copy was donated by her daughters, to whom she gave it, to the Singapore Art Museum. In 1949 she returned to Singapore and in 1951 was appointed to the Legislative Council, serving a five-year term. In 1956 she became the first principal of the Singapore School for the Blind, after which in 1960 she returned to St Andrews Boys’ School where she had taught before the war.

Biodata :
Elizabeth Choy, wartime prisoner of the Japanese and postwar teacher, was born on November 29, 1910. She died on September 14, 2006, aged 95.