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Lee Siew Choh (Dr) (b. 1 November 1917, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya–d. 18 July 2002, Singapore), a Cantonese, was a former Barisan Sosialis leader and the first non-constituency member of Parliament (NCMP).¹ He was a vocal opposition leader who once gave a seven-and-a-half hours speech spanning two days, opposing the proposed merger with Malaya. He is also remembered for leading the Barisan members of Parliament (MPs) to boycott Singapore’s first parliamentary session in 1965.

Early life
After completing his studies at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, in 1934, Lee came to Singapore to study medicine at the King Edward VII College of Medicine.² Upon graduating in 1942, he joined the Kandang Kerbau Hospital as a doctor. A year later during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942–45), Lee married his wife, a volunteer nurse whom he met at the hospital. Lee was then sent to work as a medical officer for two years at the Thai-Burmese border, where prisoners-of-war were building the Death Railway for the Japanese.³

In 1947, Lee established his own

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