This certificate belongs to part of a collection of artefacts related to the World War II underground resistance movement known as Force 136. The certificate is part of the Chan Phui Kong collection which forms part of a larger collection gathered by Tan Chong Tee (1916- 2012), who was a key member of this resistance group. The collection consists of original materials belonging to Tan and other members of Force 136 dating from the 1940s to new materials reproduced from memory by Tan Chong Tee, which date from the late 1980s to early 2000s. Force 136 was set up in July 1942 as part of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). It recruited and trained local guerillas to gather intelligence and create an underground spy network to support planned British invasion of Japanese-occupied Malaya.Chan Phui Kong 陈培光 probably went by the alias Wang Dingyuan 王定原when he operated as a Force 136 member and became a Datuk after he settled down in Malaysia after the war.
