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    DutyBound

    By David Miller

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    This is a true story of a young police inspector who finds himself out of a job during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore during World War II. He begins to fight back in his own way and is soon lured into joining an Allied spy ring. Working in disguise, 22-year-old Halford Boudewyn is tasked to smuggle classified documents out from a POW camp which could prevent another major invasion planned by the Imperial Japanese Army. This book was written based on the notes Boudewyn left behind shortly before his death. Now for the first time, his complete story can be told.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Miller
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9789810923907
    DutyBound
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    David Miller

    David Donald Miller is currently employed at Raytheon Systems in Tucson, AZ, as a Principal Software Engineer. For more than 15 years he was a computer science professor at Bemidji State University (in Bemidji, MN), where he created and managed an OpenVMS cluster laboratory. Mr. Miller also has 20 years of aerospace experience in various software engineering positions. He is the author of OpenVMS Operating System Concepts from Digital Press, and is currently at work with Steve Hoffman on the second edition of Lawrence Baldwin’s OpenVMS System Management Guide, forthcoming from Digital Press.

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      DutyBound - David Miller

      DutyBound

      A Singapore War Hero Remembered

      David Miller

      www.dmbooks.org

      This book is based largely on the notes made by Halford Boudewyn, a retired senior police officer in Singapore shortly before his death in 1998. Some incidents were related by his wife Tess da Silva during a series of interviews conducted in early 2014. Relevant historical information drawn from various official sources has also been included to complete the story.

      Published in 2014 by DMBOOKS

      First edition eBook – Nov 19 2014

      ISBN (paperback): 978-981-09-2389-1

      ISBN (ebook): 978-981-09-2390-7

      Please visit www.dmbooks.org or email admin@dmbooks.org for publishing or media enquiries.

      Copyright © David Miller, 2014

      The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      Cover design by DMBOOKS

      Product of Singapore

      Halford was not a reckless or careless man, quite the contrary. So some years after the dust of the war had settled and I learnt of his wartime spy activities, I felt I needed to know what compelled this man, my husband, to be involved with such covert and life-threatening actions. He said: I am guessing that people in my situation then, when contacted to become a spy, do not spend much time thinking of heroics. If I did not do it, would they have been able to find someone better placed to carry out the missions? I felt it was my duty.

      Tess Boudewyn

      February 2015

      Halford Boudewyn was a policeman and a war hero. His exploits during WWII are the stuff of legends. Fittingly, Boudewyn’s loyalty and courage, so wonderfully described by David Miller’s prose, continue to inspire his modern-day successors. Courage, loyalty, together with integrity and fairness, remain enduring values that today’s Singapore police officers swear to uphold.

      Ng Joo Hee

      Commissioner of Police

      Singapore Police Force

      November 2014

      My brother-in-law, Halford Boudewyn, was a soft spoken and humble man. Although I lived with him and my sister for two years between 1946 and 1948, I knew nothing of his exploits during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. It was only when he was awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service that I learnt a little of what he had done during the war. It was typical of Halford to contribute fearlessly as a matter of duty and without fanfare.

      Reg da Silva

      Assistant Commissioner (Retired)

      Singapore Police Force

      February 2015

      Table of Contents:

      Chapter One – The Calling

      Chapter Two – The Spectre of War

      Chapter Three – A Fortress Torn

      Chapter Four – The Agony of Defeat

      Chapter Five – Hands of Fate

      Chapter Six – Monitoring the Airwaves

      Chapter Seven – The Jelly Press

      Chapter Eight – Pretences

      Chapter Nine – Into the Lion’s Den

      Chapter Ten – Life in the Shadows

      Chapter Eleven – Under the Wire

      Chapter Twelve – Peace as Last

      Epilogue

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      1

      The Calling

      You want to join the police force? Do you realise what you would be getting yourself into? You would be throwing your life away! he shouted back at me. Clearly Dad was now losing his patience.

      The year was 1939 and I was a rebellious 19-year-old going head-to-head with my enraged father once again. He tried being reasonable, offering his insight learnt painfully from a lifetime of hard work but that did nothing to sway my mind or my heart. From as far back as I can recall, I had set my sights on becoming a police officer. It was a truly noble cause, one in which I could serve and lead with pride and with purpose. Perhaps my father was right in a way – I was young, naive and idealistic but I knew in the very soul of my being that this was the right choice for me – the only one I could make. I had come of age and the time had finally arrived for that decision to be made. Nothing, not even my father was going to stand in my way. I knew I would have to make many painful sacrifices to reach my goal in life and perhaps it would have to begin here with me disappointing my Dad.

      He had been very much a central figure in my life ever since my mother passed away many years back and I hated the thought of disappointing him with the very first decision I was about to make as a man.

      Look, I can pull some strings and get you promoted to a manager in your company but you have to stick with it, prove your worth and make something of yourself. Look at your brother. He has a good, respectable job in the Veterinary Department. It took years of hard work but look at him now. Look at your sister – she wanted to be a hairdresser. That too took years of struggle but she has established herself and –

      And that is exactly what I intend to do. I will work hard and I will make it too, I fired back with a little more venom in my voice than I had intended.

      But Dad wasn’t about to back down so easily. Make it too? At the Straits Settlement Police Force you start at the very bottom as nothing more than a lowly constable, he said gesticulating to the floor. Yes, they will train you well, he said with a sneer, "… to wash toilets and to stand on dusty street corners all day long in the blazing sun directing traffic. Is this what you really want? Don’t you realise that you would be dragging the family’s name and reputation down with you?

      "The senior

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