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  1. Elizabeth Choy is best known as a war heroine. During the Japanese Occupation, she risked her life by smuggling supplies and messages to prisoners-of-war held at Changi Jail. She was also an educator and a politician.

  2. Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi OBE ( née Yong; 29 November 1910 – 14 September 2006) was a Singaporean educator and councillor who is regarded as a war heroine in Singapore.

  3. Elizabeth Choy in 1955, in a photo from the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, courtesy of the National Archives of Singapore. The story of Elizabeth Choy is one of, not just personal courage and the possibilities of an indomitable spirit, but also that of a woman with an abiding trust in God, who was her source of strength ...

  4. Sep 14, 2006 · Elizabeth Choy: War heroine, politician and teacher. Retrieved 2016, June 30 from the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame website: http://www.swhf.sg/the-inductees/10-advocacy-activism/9-elizabeth-choy 28.

  5. Singapore War Crimes Trials. Elizabeth Choy. Illustration courtesy of Ng Pei Yi. Person in Portrait: Elizabeth Choy. Learn more about the background of the trials here. PORTRAITS. Born in Kudat in British North Borneo (today’s Sabah), Elizabeth Choy is well-known for her courageous acts of resistance during the Japanese Occupation.

  6. Mar 8, 2015 · She served for a full five-year term. As a member of the Legislative Council, she even represented Singapore at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. Photograph of Elizabeth Choy with fellow Legislative Councilors Che Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim and Mrs Vilasini Menon, c.1950

  7. For the next 193 days, in a windowless cell no bigger than three by four metres, with only a narrow air-vent on one wall, Elizabeth was subjected to torture, together with her cellmates of twenty people, who were a mix of civil servants, doctors and businessmen.