Adrien Devals

Adrien Devals (19 November 1882 – 17 January 1945) was a French-born Singaporean Roman Catholic priest who was the Bishop of Malacca, which also included Singapore.

[1] Devals arrived in Penang in September, where he became the assistant and later the parish priest at the Church of the Assumption.

During World War I, he served as a nurse and later as an interpreter in a munitions factory with Chinese workers.

[1] Prior the founding of the Bahau settlement as part of the Grow More Food Campaign during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, Devals and Herman De Souza Sr. were sent to the site of the settlement to assess its suitability.

The cut became infected and turned gangrenous, and he was taken to a hospital in Seremban.