and was bedridden by the end of May 1944. Lim died in the early hours of 29 June 1944 at the age of 35, and was buried behind the Batu Gajah prison compound in an unmarked spot. After the Japanese surrender, Gan Choo Neo was informed of her husband's death by the priest of St. Andrew's School. She went to Batu Gajah with her eldest son to bring her husband's remains home. Lim's remains arrived at the Tanjong Pagar railway station in Singapore on 7 December 1945. Upon arrival, the hearse was sent off by a large procession of British officers and prominent businessmen from the station to Hock Ann Biscuit Factory in Upper Serangoon Road via Armenian Street. On the same day, a memorial service for Lim was held at the Tong Teh Library of the Kuomintang Association in Singapore. A funeral service was held on 13 January 1946 at City Hall. Lim's remains was transported in a coffin to a hill in MacRitchie Reservoir (coordinates: 1°20'31.76"N 103°49'50.60"E) for burial with full military honours. Lim was posthumously awarded the rank of Major-General by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China. The Lim Bo Seng Memorial was unveiled at the Esplanade on 29 June 1954, the 10th anniversary of his death. There are also places named after Lim, such as Bo Seng Avenue in Thomson, Singapore, and Jalan Lim Bo Seng in Ipoh, Malaysia. Children and descendants Lim Bo Seng and Gan Choo Neo had four sons and four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Gan died from cancer on 25 September 1979 at the age of 71. Their sons were Lim Leong Geok, Lim Chin Geok, Lim Whye Geok and Lim Lam Geok. Their daughters were Leow Oon Geok (née Lim), Lim Leng Geok (died in infancy), Yeo Ai Geok (née Lim) and Ooi Siew Geok (née Lim). Among Lim's children, his eldest son Lim Leong Geok (1932–2004) was an Executive Director of the SMRT Corporation and a key figure in the development of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Singapore's public transport system. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Contribution award by the Land Transport Authority on 31 March 2010. One of Lim's grandsons, Lim Teck Yin, is a former Brigadier-General in the Singapore Armed Forces and the current Chief Executive Officer of Sport Singapore. In academia and popular culture Around the 1990s, Asiapac Books published