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Hera Singh was the V.I. Cricket Captain of 1938, a School Prefect and an outstanding sportsman. After leaving the school he joined the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore. On February 14, 1942, as Japanese forces were besieging Singapore, a colleague of his, Yoong Tatt Sin, died of wounds received from a Japanese bombardment. That same afternoon as a group of medical students, including Hera, gathered in the College grounds for Yoong's burial, some Japanese artillery rounds exploded near the group killing Hera and nine students. Other students who survived included Hera's V.I. classmate, David Tan Chee Khoon (later Tan Sri) who narrowly escaped the flying shrapnel from the blast by jumping into a trench. A bronze memorial plaque for Hera Singh and the ten other medical students was installed after the war at the site where the incident occurred. Hera's brother, Gorbex Singh, was a pre-war and post-war V.I. Teacher. |