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This assignment ended when the Japanese invaded Malaya and Singapore in early Wartime espionage Stealing and storage of secret documents Boudewyn found work with a Eurasian food contractor who supplied Indian army camps in Singapore. Boudewyn admired the bravery of those who had remained loyal to the crown and wanted to avenge those who had suffered for it.

His new friend told him that documentary proof could be obtained and the two men agreed on a plan to gather this evidence. Each day Boudewyn gave a deep bow to the Japanese sentry as he left the camp and his bicycle carrier, where he kept the papers, was never searched. Eventually the house was seized by the Japanese who converted the tennis court into a vegetable garden.

After the war this made locating the drum more difficult, and he ultimately discovered that while he had taken care to bury it four feet deep it was now only one foot below the surface.

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Disseminating information among POWs and the public Boudewyn also rejoined the police under the Japanese and worked in the office dealing with espionage. One was stored at the Chancery Lane house and another — daringly — was kept in a laundry basket at Orchard Road police station where he worked. The Japanese had dug about 3 feet into the ground, one foot away from where he had buried the oil drum.

He later moved the oil drum over to his brother's house, which is where it remained until after the war.

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Afterwards, Boudewyn contacted the Army Intelligence and submitted the documents to them. Inhe retired from the Police Force due to health complications. Inhe lived at Toa Payoh. Inhe suffered from a stroke after having undergone five coronary bypass operations. On 26 AprilBoudewyn died in his sleep at 77 after suffering from bladder cancer for 12 years and severe heart complications.

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Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Singaporean police officer and spy — Early life [ edit ]. In recounting his double role as vegetable seller and spy, Mr Boudewyn, said: "Entering the INA headquarters, I would start selling vegetables to the soldiers.

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I would park my bicycle by the sentry's shed and give him a very low bow which pleased him immensely. I guess the thought of checking my bicycle never occurred to them. He hid all the documents he had smuggled in an empty oil drum which he buried in the tennis court of a friend's house in Chancery Hill. Later, he transferred the drum to his brother's home in St Barnabas Road, off Upper Serangoon Road, where it remained until after the war.