Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGFSibcOfg video link.

summary of elizabeth choy's life

 Information on her life

early life

• was born on 29 Nov 1910 to a Hakka family in Kudat, British North Borneo.
• eldest among 11 children
• accquired Kadazen as her first language as she was looked after by a kadazen nanny
• became a anglican at St monica's bonding school in sandakan where she took the name elizabeth
• later complete her education in raffles college in singapore. As her parents could not accept the fees, she started teaching, first at st. Margaret's school then at st Andrew's 
• she married Choy Khun Heng, a book-keeper in August 1941

WWII

• during the japanese invasion of malaya, she became a volunteer nurse with the medical military service.  After the fall of singapore, the Choys set up a canteen at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, after all patients and doctors had been moved from Miyako Hospital, where they started a regular ambulance run for British civilian internees. 
• the Choys helped the POWs (prisoner of war) by passing on cash and parcels containing supplies and also radio parts
• during the Double Tenth incident, a informant told the kempeitai that the Choys were involved in smmuggling money into Changi prison. Her husband was arrested first. She was arrested later.
• being severely tortured, but she did not blame them for torturing her as they are commanded  by their superiors.

Post-war

• awarded the girl guide's highest honour, bronze cross , order of the star of sarawak.
• her war time experiences had inculated in her the belief that civil development required efffective protection against aggressors. she served as a second lieutenant in the women's auxillary arm of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, where she has the nickname, " gunner choy"
• she was also noted for wearing traditional Chinese and Indian clothing, qipaos and bangles, which she got the nickname, " Dayak Women of Singapore"
• apparently, she died out of cancer

Grp members

Aston(17)-leader
Andrew(16)
Celestine(18)
Perry/ Jing yu (19)
Jaymus(20)

video

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200 days of hell for Elizabeth Choy

Jail cell 'features'

• 12x10 feet( 4mx5m)
• more than 20 people crammed inside
•  a tap,a hole in the ground, no pirvacy, your business is conducted infront of everyone (^.^)
• extremely smelly from perspiration, Pisces, etc.  

Interrogation session

• prisoners had to crawl out of a small door
• captors beat 'em up, slaps them, electric shocks and pumped them with water
• elizabeth choy was electric shocked, for the rest of her life, she is put off with anything with electricity, like televisions, etc...

weight loss

• daily meals were shoved through the trap door, everybody will rush for every grain of rice. 
• waist shrank, 25 inches to 18 inches.

freedom

• she was released after being 200 days in prison
• her clothes smelt foul
• body ached from injuries
• she said that she had returned from death, or 'resurrected' 

source:http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/ec200.html

useful info from pri sch tb

More about... Operation Jaywick

Introduction
Operation jaywick is a special operation undertaken In world war 2. On september 1943, 14 commandos and sailors led by Ivan Lyon from the Z special unit raided japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, sinking seven ships.

Background
 In 1943, a 28-year-old British officer, Captain Ivan Lyon (of the Allied Intelligence Bureau andGordon Highlanders), and a 61-year-old Australian civilian, Bill Reynolds, devised a plan to attack Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour. Commandos would travel to the harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat( which is later named Krait). They would then use collapsible canoes to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships.

Attack
In mid-1943, the Krait travelled from a training camp at Broken Bay, New South Wales to Thursday Island. Aboard was a complement from Z Special Unit of three British and eleven Australian personnel, comprising:

• Major Ivan Lyon (Mission Commander)
• Lieutenant Hubert Edward Carse (Krait's Captain)
• Lieutenant Donald Montague Noel Davidson
• Lieutenant Robert Charles Page
• Corporal Andrew Anthony Crilley
• Corporal R.G. Morris
• Leading Seaman Kevin Patrick Cain
• Leading Stoker James Patrick McDowell
• Leading Telegraphist Horace Stewart Young
• Able Seaman Walter Gordon Falls
• Able Seaman Mostyn Berryman
• Able Seaman Frederick Walter Lota Marsh
• Able Seaman Arthur Walter Jones
• Able Seaman Andrew William George Huston

On 13 Aug 1943, Krait left Thursday Island for U.S. naval base at exmouth Gulf, western Australia, refuel and repairs were undertaken.

On 2 sept 1943, the Krait left the Exmouth Gulf and departs for Singapore. the team's safety relies on the disguise of the boat as well as the men's appearance. The Krait arrived off Singapore on Sept 24. That night, six men left the boat and paddled to a cave near the harbour. On night of 26 sept, the men paddled into the harbour and planted mines on the ships and they exploded. The men reached back safely and there was no casualities or losses. Later an installment, operation Rimau, but some men were captured and killed.

Relation to Elizabeth Choy

The Japanese in Singapore are surprised by the raid. they did not expect a raid to come from Australia. Since  the raid started in Australia, the japanese suspected that local people in singapore supplied them the knowledge of carrying out the raid. The kempeitai, japanese military police arrested 57 civilians and civilian internees( including elizabeth choy) but no one of the 57 people had participated in operation Jaywick, nor knew any knowledge of it. 

source:wiki (operation jaywick, double tenth incident)