Location: Pulau Brani
| Name: | Pulau Brani |
| BFPO: | N/A |
| Town: | Pulau Brani Island |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Type(s): | Primary |
| Notes Military post was conducted through the civil postal authorities.......c/o GPO Singapore. Map location is only approximate as the area has been redeveloped into a container port. | |
The army ferry from Pulau Brani disembarking local children at Jardine Steps on the mainland, to go to their schools there.
A European woman is about to board the ferry. We wonder if she is a teacher at the BFES Pulau Brani Primary school on her way to work?
Image and text courtesy of Lynne Copping.
Most British troops and families had moved out of Singapore by October 1971, leaving a token number behind.
The last British troops left in 1976.
The above image is courtesy of Yolanda Cawdeary (nee Cooper) whose mother Sophie Cooper appears in the photograph.
The above photographs are of a small Army Primary School (Three Teachers and 28 Pupils) on the tiny Malay island of Pulau Brani
We believe that the school closed down in 1971 when the few remaining pupils transferred to Wessex school, Singapore.
A class in the school.
Sports Day at Pulau Brani in July 1959.
Images courtesy of Lynne Copping who was a pupil at the school from 1958 to 1961.
An extract from the "Day Books" which detailed what the staff did each day.
" Pulau Brani Primary in September 1964. Miss Lawson and Mrs Hall joined the staff and Mr Yates was the headmaster, 2 Gurkha girls were tested for admission. In October, Guyanbahadur Tamang transferred to Bourne School. 16 Gurkha children were absent for the Dashera festival. Russell Littlejohn and Christopher Bain did the Moray House test. Miss Lawson and Mrs Hall were late due to floods in Singapore. Inaugural meeting of the PTA, 18 parents and the three teachers".
Lynne Copping remembers....
"I remember going to Kinloss House for recorder rehearsals with children from other schools for the Xmas concert at the Victoria Hall.
The tiny school on Pulau Brani provided three recorder players and ten choir members. The boys had to wear white shorts and shirts and the girls white dresses. My mother was a brilliant dressmaker and made my dress, but after the concert she took it to a local dressmaker to have the collar embroidered".
Lynne Copping (marked) in her class and wearing the concert dress made by her mother.