Sim Siang Kiat

​Sim Siang Kiat 

詔安

民國卅四年八月七日

沈上吉

孝男

文貞 Sim Boon Cheng 

立

In Loving Memory of

Sim Siang Kiat 

Died Sept 12 1945

P639

Burial certificate 

Bukit Brown Blk 4 C plot no P639

Age 33 years old 

Burial certificate and photo courtesy of Yvonne Chng 

Note : Sim Boon Cheng was the daughter of Sim Siang Kiat instead of son as noted in her obituary. Her father died when she was just a few months old. 

Based on newspapers archives , he was a badminton player from 1930 to 1931 

In 1935, Sim Siang Kiat appeared in a farewell group photograph for W. N. Hamilton, the Singapore District Manager of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI). The image places Sim among NAAFI’s multiethnic local staff and associates in colonial Singapore, although the surviving caption does not identify his particular role in the organisation.

NAAFI was a British government-created organisation, established in 1920 and trading from 1921, to provide welfare, retail, catering and recreation services for British armed-forces personnel and their families. Its practical business included canteens, mess and club catering, shops, refreshment rooms and recreational facilities at places where British troops were stationed

Group photograph taken on the occasion of the departure for London of Mr. W. N. Hamilton. District Manager. Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes Singapore. Back row. left to right: Tan Choon Bee, Sim Siang Kiat. Leong Koon Wah, Hoe. Then Fay Choy, Chan Huar Seong. Teo Hook Seng. Second row: Ang Geok Loo, Lim Teck Whatt, Koh Keng Siang. Seah Peng Liap, Lim Khoon Hong, Yeo Leng Keng, R. Ondatje, Kee Theam Heng, Chan Huay Chiang. Sitting: Miss O. Campbell, H. Busby, J. Riley, W. N. Hamilton, R. J. N. Brewer, Miss M. Holmes. Miss D. M. Godfrey. Sitting on floor: Karim Rashim. Mohd. Sassoon Ali.

The Straits Budget, 28 November 1935, Page 18

142 Deaths

The Straits Times, 7 October 1979, Page 25

 

124 In Memoriam

The Straits Times, 7 October 1980, Page 5