I once worked under a colonel, he seemed unable to adapt to life
after SAF, as he always used SAF speak when he spoken to me, like
when war breaks out, you have to be ready and Alexandar the Great
etc.............crap
Why Alexander the Great? Why not Yue Fei or Dalforce? The
colonel is which ethnic group?
Dalforce,
or the Singapore
Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army (星华义勇军;Xinghua
Yi Yong Jun)
was an irregular
forces/guerrilla unit
within the British Straits
Settlements Volunteer Force during World War
II.
Its members were recruited among the ethnic
Chinese people
of Singapore.
It was created on 25 December 1941 by Lieutenant
Colonel John
Dalley of the Federated
Malay States Police Force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalforce
The 1st
Malaya Infantry Brigade was
a regular infantry brigade formed in 1939 with its headquarters
in Singapore immediately
after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe.[1] The
Brigade participated in the Battle of
Singapore against
the Japanese until
the surrender of the garrison in February 1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Malaya_Infantry_Brigade
The First
Indian National Army (or
the First INA) is the term often used to denote
the Indian National
Army as
it existed between February and December 1942. It was formed with
Japanese aid and support after the Fall of
Singapore and
consisted of approximately 12,000 of the 40,000 Indian prisoners
of war who were captured either during the Malayan
campaign or
surrendered at Singapore and was led by Mohan
Singh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_INA
In 1939, 3,200 young men from
South-East Asia, historically was called Nanyang(南洋) by Chinese,
most were from Malaya, left their families and homes voluntarily to
travel to China to work as drivers and mechanics during the
Sino-Japanese War of
1937-1945. They left in 15 batches with 9 of 15 batches
leaving from Singapore. The volunteers are called Nangiao ji
gong(南侨机工)or “overseas Chinese
mechanics”.
These 3200 volunteers included Indian, Malay men
and four Chinese women. They were responding to China Relief Fund’s call
to sustain China’s war materials supply chain during the Sino
Japanese War. The China Relief Fund or Nanyang Federation of China
Relief Fund(南洋华侨筹赈祖国难民总会) or Nangiao Chung Hui(南侨总会), an
association founded on 10-10-1938 by 170 overseas Chinese
representatives from the Nanyang region. Their objective was to
coordinate regional relief work to support China against Japanese
advancement. Mr.Tan Kah Kee(陈嘉庚)was elected as the chairman. The
regional headquarter of China Relief Fund was located in Ee Hoe
Hean Club, Singapore.
The volunteers, consisted
mainly Chinese
from Nanyang, but also included Indians, Malays,Indonesians and
Burmese. The
sent off ceremony attended by many was the hot news in Singapore.
The initial 80 was called Eighty Pioneer(八十先锋),who left on
18-2-1939, just a day before Chinese New Year. They made history
for Nanyang Chinese. (Note: You can see the photo of the first
batch Ji Gong at the official website of Ee Hoe Hean Club(怡和轩俱乐部),
http://www.eehoehean.org/?page_id=45)
http://teochiewkia2010.blogspot.sg/2011/07/penang-chinese-anti-war-memorial.html