Historical Investigation by Sheryl Tan https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3 group padlet and essay en-us 2017-04-02 05:04:17 UTC 2025-11-20 01:56:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Group Name: Uniballs ebigo https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/164517594 Class:203
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Abigail Goh (01) Source 1&2
Sheryl Tan (18)  Source 3&4
Staci Lee (13) Source 5&6
Cheng Zhifan (07) Source 7&8
Tan Wei Ying (20) Source 9&10]]> 2017-04-04 04:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/164517594 Source 5: Jobs before WW2 stacilee03 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/164517604 Source: 
After leaving school in 1939, in December, I went to work a few months afterwards in a British company in 1940. I was in the technical department dealing with some printing equipment and typewriters at that time. Because I was unable to enter the university at the time, so I thought, I would go to work. The average wage for a newly employed person was about $35, and if you were earning a sum of $45, it was considered to be very good. I was considered to be very good. I was 16 when I first started working. I left school at 15.

Source description: Transcript of a person who was alive during the 1930s
Source Date: 1 September 1994
Source Origin: National Archives Of Singapore
Source Type: Written source.]]> 2017-04-04 04:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/164517604 Source 3: Food before WW2 stslcherry https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166420610 Source:
Description: At the school gates food. Rice in leaf packets with cucumbers, eggs, bean cakes, pineapple and sweet potato 
Date: C.1990-1906
Origin: The National Archives of Singapore, Royal Commonwealth Society
Type: Picture

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Description:Grow more food campaign
Date: During Japanese Occupation
Origin: Singapore Infopedia, Joshua Chia Yeong Jia
Type: Written
Source:
The Grow More Food Campaign was started during the Japanese Occupation to place a check on inflation and to prepare for an eventual blockade from enemy forces. People were encouraged to strive for self-sufficiency by growing their own food. Vegetables, tapioca and sweet potatoes were some of the common crops grown. The campaign targeted people from all walks of life including city-dwellers, government workers, schoolchildren and prisoners-of-war. When the campaign failed to produce results, the Japanese resorted to coercive tactics like the cutting of rations and the migration of people to farming communities to increase agricultural output.

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And my father got me a job. It was very well paid. In those days, I got something like $400 a month. And I worked there for about two, maybe three months. We started very early in the morning. And as I told you the bus system, the public transport had recommenced. Because I used to come down by public transport about 5.30 in the morning from my place in Chancery Lane down to town and then catch another bus to Tanjong Pagar and I had a short walk, something like that I can't remember.

Source description: Transcript of a person living in the 1940s
Source Date: 25 January 1984
Source Origin: National Archives Of Singapore 
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This picture shows three teenagers, one male and two females. The male wearing suit，which is a western-style clothes. The male look like an Asian from his figure.For the two females beside him, they wearing chinese culture clothes.The cloth's style look like Qing-dynasty style.

Type of source: Photograph

Covering Date:
c.1920
Credit Line:
Lee Brothers Studio Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore]]> 2017-04-16 08:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458011 Source 8: Fashion during WW2 weiyingsmile123 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458213 Description：
This picture shows a mixture of different races teenagers. They gather around the wooden table place in the room. All of them wearing the simplest type of clothes, a white T-shirt and a shorts or long pants. 

Type of source: Photograph

THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945
Production date
1941-12 
Creator
Palmer Fred (Hon Lt)]]> 2017-04-16 08:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458213 Source 10: Health during WW2 weiyingsmile123 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458312 Source: And I think the Japanese were very good for the B Vitamins to prevent beri-beri. Oh,by the way,we had quite a number of cases of cardiac beri-beri. Now,a person would come in really dying. ... And then we inject him with Vitamin B which the Japanese gave us.And they were very effective.

Description of source:Japanese supplying vitamins for the local hospital.
Type of source:Oral interview
Source date:27 Oct 1983
Source Origin:National Archives of Singapore



]]> 2017-04-16 08:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458312 Source 9: Health before WW2 weiyingsmile123 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458814 Source:General nursing. You look after the patients. ...We treat patients,feed patients,wash patients,give them a blanket bath and giving injections,give medicines.And generally,do everything that is necessary to be done in the ward,you see.

Description of source:work as trainee in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) before he left in 1941.
Type of source:Oral interview
Source date:28 Mar 1983
Source origin:National Archives of Singapore]]> 2017-04-16 08:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166458814 Source 1: School Life before WW2 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166467719 The students that they send up to us, you know, they were bright, but they really have been educated in a sort of English syllabus. Nobody troubled to adapt the syllabus to anything local at all. I remember one of them writing about this country when she meant England. And I wrote: Is this Singapore or Malaya? And you know, when I handed it back to her she said, “I never thought of writing about Malaya.” So I said, “Well, from now on, you’re going to think about it all the time. This is where you are living and this is what the education is going to be all about as far as we can make it so.”  

Source description: Education during Colonial period 
Source date: 29 Apr 1982
Source origin: The National Archives Online
Source type: Oral interview
]]> 2017-04-16 13:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166467719 Source 2: School life during WW2 https://padlet.com/stslcherry/g1kxs91zi4k3/wish/166468007 Back then during that period, Singapore was known as Syonan To which means " The Light Of The South ". Not only did the name of our beloved country changed, we were also forced to sing Japan's national anthem. It was called Kimigayo. We had to face towards the direction of Japan while singing the national anthem. It was a new thing for us and it took us some time to adapt to the new national anthem as it was hard to pronounce the words.
We were also forced to take up Japanese subjects in our school. All subjects in our school was taught in Japanese. It was hard for we students to adapt to these changes as we could not understand Japanese. Some parents resorted to finding a tuition teacher who teaches English or even Mother Tongue to their child to avoid their child from losing out.

Source description: What the students had to do during Japanese Occupation
Source date: 17 February 2013
Source origin: Hafiz Sapuwan
Source type: written
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