Sing Rattanasamai

General Sing Rattanasamay (1912–1973) was a Laotian senior military officer, being one of the co-founders of the Laotian National Army (French: Armée Nationale Laotiènne – ANL), the predecessor of the Royal Lao Army (RLA) during the First Indochina War and the Laotian Civil War. Initially a colonial police officer, Sing joined both the anti-Japanese resistance network during World War II, and the anti-French Lao Issara nationalist guerrilla movement from 1946 to 1949. He subsequently joined the ranks of the nascent ANL, and went on to serve the Kingdom of Laos until just prior to his death in 1973.