Major GK Lim. RAMC Dr Lim Gim-Kheang 林廣泉 Sierra Leone c 1944
Image by Sludge G
possibly originally from Singapore,or Hong Kong. With a burra peg on the verandah.
Is this our Doctor? One imagines he’s a medical doctor from Malaysia. Let’s see
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The Straits Times, 17 November 1958, Page 14
Singapore doctor’s colt wins in UK
Article also available on microfilm reel NL1804 [Lee Kong Chian Reference Library – On shelf]
Singapore doctor’s colt wins in UK LINGFIELD PARK, Sun.
Dr. G. K. Lim of Singapore won the November Nursery Handicap for two-year-olds here today with his colt Signal. Signal, by the Epsom Derby winner Blue Peter out of Lovely Day, [sired by Dastur, sired by Solario]
bloodstockevaluator.com/Horse/2211878
www.allbreedpedigree.com/signal5
drew away in the final stages of the seven
Signal was trained by Fred Armstrong at Newmarket, but I see no owner listed.
Dr Lim seemed to be a member of the Singapore Turf Club. Perhaps the same chap.
Ah, here we go…
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35236/supplement/4500/d…
August 5 1941
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Lieutenant
26 June 1941
Gim Kheang Lim M.B. 191348 林廣泉
There’s a 1933 note here to say he was registered to practice in Hong Kong at no. 32 Hill Road
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and a post-war BBC programme from 1947
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctv/1947-07-11
Dr. Neville Whymant, who knows China well, will be the English guest, Dr. and Mrs. G.K. Lim (in China Lim Gim-Kheang and Lee Yu-Lan 李鈺蘭 ) the hosts, and the four medical students will be Chien Jo-Lung, Kiang Tao, King Sing-Yui and Tan Sien-Sen. The conversation takes place in Dr. Lim’s house in Hankow – now recovering from its heavy aerial bombardment during the war.
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5 June 1990
322 Acknowledgements [Articles + Illustrations]
Page 32
322 Acknowledgements Tha Family of the late DR. LIM GIM KHEANG wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and business associates for their attendances, condolences, wreaths, donations and assistance during their recent bereavement. Thanks Appreciation Is also extended to doctors nurses of Gleneagles Hospital the Wesley..
More about Dr Lim
In 1937 he was living at 30 Osnaburgh Street NW1 with Shan Young Lim, who may have been his wife or sister.
In 1938 he lived with Boon Hean Chew and Shan Yong Chew, who may have been Shan Yong Lim at 14 Havergal Villas, Green Lanes Turnpike Lane N15.
The following year only Dr GK Lim and Chew Shan Yang lived at the above.
He was described as a physician and surgeon, MB BS DCF, DTM+H[Engl] in the phone books of that tme. Telephone BOWes Park 1174.
By 1943, he had moved to 38 Heath Street, Hampstead, NW3 Telephone HAM 6816 which was also current in 1946, but by 1949, into 1950 he had again moved to 29 Hampstead High Street.
At Heath Streeet, his wife appears to be Phyllis Lee, with an additional voter, Maximin E L Limfat.
The last entry for 1951 shows him with Phyllis Lee and Pamela Lau, after which they departed for Penang, Malaysia on the P&O Liner Canton on June 29 1951, described as a Doctor and housewife, aged 42 and 36 respectively.
An entry for 1933 at 9 Taviton Street, NW1 may also have been during his student days.
On November 12, Chew Shan Lim, aged 36, of the Green Lanes address left Liverpool for Penang on the Shanghai bound Markunda of the P&O Line
Chew Shan Yong Lim now aged 43 arrived back in the UK at London, presumably having left in 1940 on March 23 1948 along with Kean Chye Lim, a student aged 29 who was intending to reside at 4 Meadway Gate, Golders Green NW11. Her intended address was that of Dr GK Lim.
Subsequently Chew Shan Yong Lim moved to Australia, living variously at 31 Kensington Road, Summer Hill NSW in the 1960s, and later at 34 Devonshire Street, Chatswood, NSW.
www.namoogle.com/surname/L/Chew-LIM.html
in Western Australia in 1979
Some more information about Mrs GK Lim is online – the Straits Times of June 2 1956
where it says she is the warden of the Singapore YWCA [at Fort Canning] hostel and was the director of catering at the YWCA Bedford House during her 15 year stay in London
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She joined the hostel in Singapore in 1955 but is leaving in July 1956 to tour the far east, followed by Australia and America. She is an expert on English, Chinese and Continental cookery and holds a diploma for institutional and catering management.
"She also supervised school meals for London City [sic] Council [probably London County Council]
"she has not decided on plans after her tour"
Must have been great fun going globe trotting then away from your husband ,who is silent in those two articles.
