Passport of Chan Shu May

Collections
1613135
Title
Passport of Chan Shu May
Year/Period
8 April 1948
Region
Singapore
Object Type
passports
Material
paper (fiber product)
Technique
printing processes
Dimension
Object size: 16.2 x 10.5 cm,
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2025-00385
Collection of
National Museum of Singapore
Credit Line
Gift of Stephanie Ho

This is the passport of Chan Shu May which was issued on 8 April 1948. Chan Shu May was born in Jiangsu, China in 1920, and subsequently moved to Singapore. She was with the Medical Auxiliary Service (MAS) during World War Two. The MAS provided medical aid during the Japanese bombing of Singapore. She then worked as a midwife from the 1950s to the 1970s before becoming a fulltime housewife.