David Saul Marshall was a Singaporean lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the first chief minister of Singapore from April 1955 to June 1956. He resigned after just over a year into his chi
Allen & Gledhill portrait, c. 1938–1942
Marshall studied at the University of London (pictured) from September 1934 to March 1936.
Marshall with "B" Company, c. 1938–1942
The POWs at Nisi-Asibetsu, c. 1945. Marshall is the one with the pipe near the centre.
Lim Yew Hock
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Lim Yew Hock was a Singaporean and Malaysian politician and diplomat who served as Chief Minister of Singapore from 1956 to 1959. He was the Member of Parliament for Cairnhill between 1959 and 1963, a
David Marshall (Singaporean politician)
…the following year. However, disputes with the PP and its leader C. C. Tan led to Marshall leaving in 1953. He then founded the Labour Front (LF) with Lim Yew Hock and Francis Thomas, serving as its first chairman. The LF contested at the 1955 general election, where they won the most seats with 10, and Marshall…
Lim (left) speaking at the opening of a new school, 1954
Lim won in the Legislative Assembly election of 1955, representing Havelock constituency, and was appointed Minister for Labour and Welfare. The photograph shows the former Legislative Assembly House of Singapore
The Chinese middle schools riots in October 1956 broke out at The Chinese High School
For the first time in 1958, Nanyang University was funded by the Government