Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan Squire Thomas A.
Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan Squire Thomas A. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Tan Kim Peng (Rtd) was born on his family's rubber plantation in 1941 Singapore, just…
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Always a Commando: The Life of Singapore Army Pioneer Clarence Tan Squire Thomas A.
Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Tan Kim Peng (Rtd) was born on his family's rubber plantation in 1941 Singapore, just ten months prior to the Japanese invasion of what was then British Malaya. From serving as an army officer during race riots in Singapore, to searching for communist insurgents and Indonesian infiltrators in the jungles of Malaysia during the Emergency and the Confrontation, LTC Tan was part of both the British and Malaysian armies before becoming a pioneer officer in Singapore's defence force. Like many of his generation, his life spans the fascinating, often tumultuous years surrounding the evolution of Singapore from a primarily rural, British colony, to the thriving independent nation that it is today.
Squire, brings alive the adventures of his life as a story for his grandchildren, but in a manner that can be read by all. His son-in-law, Thomas A. This is a story of a