Letter and Record of Service in the Royal Malaysian Navy

Title
Letter and Record of Service in the Royal Malaysian Navy
Year/Period
1971
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2021-00225
Credit Line
Donated by the family of the late Robert Choong Kim Siew

This letter was sent to Choong Kim Siew, a Leading Seaman with the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN), and contains the record of service that he had requested from the RMN. The record lists the places in which Choong worked at during his service years 1957 to 1969: on board two ships, KD Hang Tuah and KD Mahamiru, and at KD Malaya, the RMN base in Woodlands. The letter is highly likely to be part of the requisite documentation in his application for Singapore citizenship. In the immediate period after separation between Singapore and Malaysia in 1965, discharged officers such as Choong were allowed to request for civilian identity cards and citizenship in Singapore or Malaysia.