World War II
Somasundram attained basic education but this was interrupted with the advent of World War II. He joined the Indian National Army at the age of 14 and later after World War II trained at the Tanjung Rambutan Training Camp where he gained Executive rank by the age of 20. He was then posted to the Azad School in Singapore for Combatant Training.
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