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MINISTERS, PERMANENT SECRETARIES, CHIEFS OF DEFENCE FORCE 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 MINISTERS DEFENCE Dr Goh Keng Swee Lim Kim San Dr Goh Keng Swee Howe Yoon Chong Goh Chok Tong Dr Yeo Ning Hong 1965 - 1967* 1967 - 1970+ 1970 - 1979 1979 - 1982 1982 - 1991 1991 - 1994 Dr Lee Boon Yang 1994 - 1995 SECRETARIES PERMANENT G E Bogaars Pang Tee Pow Cheong Quee Wah Lim Siong Guan Eddie Teo 1965 - 1970 1970 - 1977 1977 - 1981 1981 - 1994 1994 - 2000 DEFENCE FORCE CHIEFS OF LG Winston Choo ‡ LG Winston Choo LG Ng Jui Ping Chief of General Staff 1990 - 1992 1992 - 1995 1976 - 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 MINISTERS DEFENCE Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam Teo Chee Hean Dr Ng Eng Hen 1995 - 2003 2003 - 2011 2011 - SECRETARIES PERMANENT Peter Ho Chiang Chie Foo Chan Yeng Kit 2001 - 2004 2004 - 2013 2013 - DEFENCE FORCE CHIEFS OF LG Bey Soo Khiang LG Lim Chuan Poh LG Ng Yat Chung LG Desmond Kuek LG Neo Kian Hong LG Ng Chee Meng 1995 - 2000 2000 - 2003 2003 - 2007 2007 - 2010 2010 - 2013 2013 - * Dr Goh Keng Swee was Minister of Defence & Security (Aug 1965 - Sep 1965), and Minister of Interior & Defence (Sep 1965 - Aug 1967). ‡ The post of Chief of Defence Force was created in 1990. Before that, the senior officer commanding the SAF was known as the Director + Lim Kim San was Minister of Interior & Defence (Aug 1967 - Apr 1968), and Minister of Defence (Apr - Aug 1970). General Staff (DGS) (1966 - 1976), and the Chief of General Staff (1976 - 1990). The following served as DGS: Tan Teck Khim (1966 - 1968), COL Kirpa Ram Vij (Jun - Dec 1968), BG T J D Campbell (1968 - 1970), BG Kirpa Ram Vij (1970 - 1974), and LG Winston Choo (1974 - 1976). Colin Goh Hossan Leong Koh Buck Song Martin Tan Seah Tzi Yan WRITERS & Cartoonist (‘The Concrete Jungle’ for Actor, comedian and television Communications strategist, branding 2nd Gen NSman and co-founder Former art gallery owner and The New Paper, Dim Sum Warriors), game-show host. Was DJ in Gold and corporate social responsibility of Halogen Foundation, a youth co-founder of the Art Galleries CONTRIBUTORS satirist (Talkingcock.com) and film 90.5 FM, Lush 99.5 and Power consultant, writer and editor. leadership development organisation. Association, Singapore (1996) & maker (Talking Cock, Singapore 98. Awarded Ambassador for Formerly with The Straits Times, ART-Singapore (2000). Adjunct Dreaming). Paris 2012 and des Ambassadeurs EDB and O&M. Served as Deputy Melanie Chew lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Francophones (Francophone Chairman of Censorship Review Military historian and author. Fine Arts. David Shaw Ambassador Award). Committee, board member of MDA Formerly taught military history Brand consultant, creative strategist and NAC, and Adjunct Associate at the Singapore Command and Sydney Tan Adrian Tan and copywriter. Worked in Saatchi & Ignatius Low Professor of Lee Kuan Yew School of Staff College, and Strategic Studies A doctor involved professionally in Director, Stamford Law. Author, Saatchi, JWT and BBDO. Launched Managing Editor of The Straits Times. Public Policy. and International Relations at the music for the last 24 years as a music humourist and debater. Best known HP consumer brand and Lenovo’s National University of Singapore. director, arranger and producer. for bestselling novels: The Teenage F1 and Olympics marketing Jermyn Chow Kuldip Singh Published works include: The History Artiste roster includes Dick Lee, Textbook and The Teenage Workbook. programmes. Defence correspondent of The Straits Head, Centre for Heritage Services, of DSO National Laboratories; Jacky Cheung, Jacintha, Clement Alumnus of PIONEER magazine. Times. MINDEF. The Sky, Our Country (history Chow, Tracy Huang, Kit Chan, and Dick Lee of Singapore Air Force); and Taufik Batisah. Music director of Alphonsus Chern Composer, creative director, singer, John Clang Kwa Chong Guan Presidential Notes: The Biography of numerous NDPs. Produced and Photojournalist, The Straits Times. playwright. Wrote “Home” for the Art and fashion photographer Adjunct Associate Professor President Yusof Ishak. arranged “Home” for Kit Chan. 1998 National Day Parade and working from New York. Earned his (Honorary) Department of History, Ann Hussein numerous songs for regional pop moniker while in NS as his name tag NUS. Former policy analyst, Mildred Sim Tan Swee Bock Singer and music director with a son singers. Recorded 24 albums and read C L Ang. MINDEF and MFA. Senior Fellow, Former NMP married to a 1st Gen Former SAF Regular from 1984 to who is an NSF. composed 11 musicals. Creative S Rajaratnam School of International NSman with a son who is a 2nd Gen 2009. Served in various command Director for a number of National K F Seetoh Studies, researching regional NSman. and staff appointments including Asad-ul Iqbal Latif Day Parade shows. Food entrepreneur. Publisher security issues. Was Head of the old Commander Divisional Air Defence Visiting Fellow at the Institute of and editor of Makansutra. Helms Department of Strategic Studies at Naggapan Reddy Thanapakiam Brigade and Head Air Manpower. Southeast Asian Studies and former Ee Cheng Huat Makansutra, a food company that SAFTI MI teaching military history A nurse with two daughters and a senior correspondent with The Straits From the first batch of NS enlistees promotes the joy of eating and and strategic studies. son who is an NSF. Tony Chew Times. and first batch of NSF officer cadets. celebrates the best of Asian food Executive Chairman, Asia Resource culture. Lai Chee Kien Pauline Goh Corporation. Co-Chair, ACCORD, Benjamin Lee Eliza Heng Architecture historian and heritage Homemaker, and retired SIA Employer and Business Council. Aka blogger Mr Miyagi. Media Civil servant with two sons, one an Kagen Lim expert. Former Assistant Professor, stewardess. Widowed with two sons, consultant. Writer of staged NSman and the other an NSF. Works in a freight forwarding Department of Architecture, NUS. one an NSman and the other a pre- Wendy Yeap comedies for Dim Sum Dollies, Irene company in Singapore. Research areas: Histories of art, enlistee. Professional counsellor whose Ang, Hossan Leong and Kumar. Fairoz Bin Hassan architecture, settlements, urbanism, husband and son are Regulars in the Author of In My Time, the comic Head of General Staff in HQ Guards Keith Tan and landscapes. Ronnie Lim SAF. book for 40 years of National Service. with the rank of LTC. Senior Creative Director at Creative Former Energy Editor of The Business Services (Sales & Marketing) Lam Chun See Times and author of A Gardener’s Log. Winston Choo Beon Kan Goh Eck Kheng MediaCorp. Heritage blogger and author of Good Chief of Defence Force of the Leather craftsman based in Taiwan Publisher of Landmark Books Pte Ltd. Morning Yesterday. Rosa Maria Consigliere Singapore Armed Forces from 1974 who runs Leather Prince offering Kenny Leck National Cadet Corps Cadet to 1992. Retired with the rank of leather keychains and phone cases. Gwee Li Sui Co-founder of independent Lee Geok Boi Lieutenant and a student from Lieutenant-General. Poet, literary critic and graphic bookshop, BooksActually. Author, freelance writer and St Andrew’s Junior College. Caleb Yap artist. Former Assistant Professor editor. Pioneer NLB librarian Yeo Suan Futt Civil servant at the Ministry of in English Literature, NUS. Selected Kit Chan and The Straits Times journalist. Rovik Robert Lifestyle journalist who has written Defence with previous appointments bibliography: Myth of the Stone Multi-talented artiste. First sang Published works include: Shoulder 3rd Gen NSman and founder of for 8 Days, Revolution and Singapore in the Ministry of Education. (graphic novel); Who Wants to Buy “Home” for the 1998 NDP. Worked to Shoulder: 35 Years of National Hidden Good which celebrates the Tatler. Authored books on crime in a Book of Poems? and One Thousand with Nexus, MINDEF, on the Total Service (contributing writer); The culture of positivity and caring in Singapore. Chua Siew San and One Nights (poetry); Fear No Defence campaigns “What Will You Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Singapore. Joined MINDEF in 1974 and Poetry (criticism); and Telltale: Eleven Defend?” (2009), “Home – Keeping Yew abridged edition (abridging served as Deputy Secretary (Policy) Stories and Sharing Borders (editor). It Together” (2011) and “30 Years editor); Singapore: Journey into Sanif Olek from 1995 to 2006. Appointed of TD: Because You Played A Part” Nationhood; Syonan-To: Singapore 2nd Gen NSman and film director. Ambassador to Thailand in 2012. Hayden Ng (2014). Under The Japanese; Ernst & Young: His debut feature film, Sayang Singaporean fashion designer and An Account of 120 Years in Singapore Disayang, received the Special Jury Clement Hendricks boutique owner. Designed costumes Koh Boon Pin (author); and Singapore International Prize for Best Asian Film at the 1st Gen NSman who served the for numerous theatre productions Executive trainer, freelance writer Foundation magazine (editor). SalaMindanaw International Film SAF for nearly 42 years. Was on the and National Day Parades. and actor. Former journalist with The Festival in 2013, and is Singapore’s Reservist On Voluntary Extended Straits Times. A writer for Shoulder Lee Jian Xuan candidate for the best foreign- Reserve Service (ROVERS) scheme to Shoulder: 35 Years of National Journalist with The Straits Times who language film category at the 2015 from 1995 to 2013. Service. covers the defence beat. Oscars. Picture Credits Kelvin Lok: Page 16. Mandate Advertising: Pages 321 (bottom), 322 (bottom Adrian Tan: Pages 346, 347. left and right), 323. Andrew and Audra Morrice: Page 72. Nancy Tan: Pages 78-80, 93. Air Force Recruitment Centre: National Archives of Singapore: Pages 22, 55, 86, 88-89, Page 322 (top). 134-135, 151, 188, 192 (top), 249, 311 (top), 340 (bot- Army Information Centre: Page 399. tom), 378, 379, 381, 382 (top). Basic Military Training Centre: Pages 57, 59 (bottom), 60 Nexus, MINDEF: Pages 24-28, 87, 302, 303, 305 (bottom (top), 71 (bottom), 124 (bottom), 137, 141, 147 (bottom), and inset).
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