crossfox My Red Cross Memories - David Yeo and Pat Jeanisa Ng

This is Mr David Yeo. He was one of the first Red Cross volunteers to arrive at the scene following the Hotel New World collapse on 15 March 1986. The scene was bloody and chilling. There were blood stains all around. People buried beneath the debris were crying for help.

He rallied passersby to help by forming a human chain to bring out the survivors to a safe place. Having handled different situations at Red Cross, he was calm and composed and people turned to him for advice on what to do.

Coming from the Red Cross, his goal was to save as many people as he could. He listened for the cries beneath the debris and kept on the lookout for debris that moved as there could have been people beneath. He manually removed the debris with his bare hands. He continued digging despite the wounds and blisters on his hands. He managed to save two people, one of whom had a head injury but was still breathing. Exhausted, he left the rest of the rescue work to the police men and Civil Defence Force.


This is Ms Pat Jeanisa Ng. She was one of the volunteers who provided psychosocial support following the collapse of Hotel New World.

Besides offering refreshments and beverage to the relatives of victims at a vegetarian restaurant, she also offered a listening ear to family members at the mortuary as she was conversant in the dialects.

There she met a middle-aged Hakka woman who was a widow. She went through a lot to bring up her son after her husband died years ago. Her son recently graduated and was working at a bank. She was hoping to go into retirement since her son is working. Find out more about what happened to her son in the video.

Our respect to Mr Yeo and Ms Ng and other dedicated people who have given so much of themselves to our humanitarian cause in the decades following our establishment in 1949 - as the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross, and after we got incorporated as the Singapore Red Cross Society in 1973 - by an Act of Parliament. We salute you.

crossfox My Red Cross Memories - David Yeo and Pat Jeanisa Ng
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