Chapter 2: University College, Leicester and King's College, University of London

MOST OF THE STUDENTS from Malaya and Singapore who went to the United Kingdom for higher studies after the war were mature, being in their twenties. The Japanese Occupation from February 1942 to August 1945 had robbed us of about four years and it took the British Military Administration (BMA) which succeeded the Japanese about two years to get things organised, so it was not till the second half of 1947 that those of us on scholarships could sail from Singapore to Britain…