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Early Life. In he joined the Straits Settlement Police Force as a constable. Two years later he was posted at Alor Gajah as an inspector. His assignment ended when the Japanese invaded Malaya and Singapore in early Background infomations. Halford Boudewyn 1. Joseph's Institution - always aspired to become a policeman 4. Wednesday, 6 March Introduction to this blog.

Back then, he was a long-serving officer whom risk his life by stealing data from the Indian National Army. Then, he will brocast the dat to everyone through the radio. If your are interested in these stories, check out this blog. Subscribe to: Posts Atom. He buried one of the radios after a friend warned him that the Japanese were suspicious but he was never questioned or arrested.

Outcome and later career Japan launched its invasion of India in March and was defeated four months later. The information Boudewyn had stolen had apparently been relayed to the Allies through other channels. After the war he hoped that the other documents would help to secure the punishment of the INA officers who had mistreated POWs. Nonetheless Boudewyn received a letter of thanks from British Army Intelligence for his actions.

For years afterwards he suffered nightmares arising from his wartime experience. After the war Boudewyn resumed police work. He was promoted to chief inspector in and later deputy superintendent. He was popular in the force and was among a few selected for an advanced training course in England in Born in , Boudewyn studied at St. Afterwards, Boudewyn and Wyman planned to smuggle the documents out.

By then, the documents were located in a different camp and Boudewyn quit his job to join the then-Japanese controlled police force. Boudewyn then posed as a vegetable seller who sold his vegetables to the camp everyday, a friend not Wyman would then buy the vegetables and hide the documents in the pile, returning the vegetables to Boudewyn as they were "rotten".

He would tie the vegetables with the documents on his bicycle, which would avoid detection from the officers as they searched him before he entered or left. Along with this, while working at the Japanese controlled police force, he commandeered wireless sets. He stole two and replaced them with " duds ". He monitored the broadcasts and with the help of Wyman, relayed the information to POW camps.

He wrote what he heard from the radio on paper before transferring the notes to jelly. The jelly absorbed the ink from the carbon pencil and functioned as a printing block.

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He then used this to create a copies and, using sago paste , would paste them on lampposts from St Barnabas Road to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station. After being given a tip however, Boudewyn got scared and buried the Chancery Lane wireless set and the documents in an oil drum at the Chancery Lane house but continued to use the Orchard Road wireless set.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese decided to occupy the house, turning the spot where Boudewyn had buried the oil drum into a garden. The Japanese had dug about 3 feet into the ground, one foot away from where he had buried the oil drum. He later moved the oil drum over to his brother's house, which is where it remained until after the war. Afterwards, Boudewyn contacted the Army Intelligence and submitted the documents to them.