Albert Kwok

Albert Kwok, with the full name Albert Kwok Fen Nam (Chinese: 郭益南; pinyin: Guō Yì Nán; born 1921 in Kuching, Sarawak; died on 21 January 1944 in Petagas, Putatan, Sabah) was a leader of a resistance fighter known as the "Kinabalu Guerrillas" during the Japanese occupation of Borneo. He is regarded as the initiator of the so-called "Double Tenth Revolt" from 10 October 1943.

Albert Kwok was born in 1921 in Kuching, Sarawak. His father was a dentist. In the late 1930s, he lived temporarily in China, where he learned the methods of the traditional Chinese medicine. He practised in Nanking, Hankow and Canton with another source said that Kwok earned medical skills to treat haemorrhoids in Penang Crown Colony.

A 19-year-old Kwok moved to Jesselton in 1940 as a doctor to work. His practice are being very successful although he had to treat his patients with a limited supply as the stock of drugs began to declined in the beginning years of World War II. Following Japanese expansion in China, the Japanese announced a decree on 13 June 1942 with the following wording circulated:

This led Kwok to be subsequently involved in a Chinese resistance movement to defend their races and homeland where he was then came in contact with anti-Japanese activities especially with the ongoing Sino-Japanese conflict in China.

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