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Band of Brothers
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor
Patrol
SAS Trooper
5 men of the 48th Field Regt, Royal Artillery in Negri Sembilan giving shows at the NAAFI, Left to Right : Craftsman A Harrison, L/Bdr G Chadwick, Gunner Talbot, Gunner J Balchin, & Gunner R Hudson perform in front of an audience in the field.
The Kings Own Scottish Regiment in Batu Pahat. Private Bruce handing in a message to L/Cpl J Gordon sitting in the signal room of the camp.
The Kings Own Scottish Borderers on parade in Batu Pahat prior to going out on a jungle patrol
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment negotiate a steep incline 1951
Troops of A Company, 3rd (Kenya) Battalion, Kings African Rifles search an abandoned hut for terrorists
A patrol of the 1st Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, moving in a stream towards a communist encampment
An enemy camp discovered by the 1st Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Men of the 1st Battalion the Royal Lancashire set up camp in Upper Perak
A Daimler Ferret Scout Car of the 1st Kings Dragoon Guards overlooking the road through Mantin Pass between Kuala Lumpur and Seremban in Malaya
Men of B Squadron 22 Special Air Service Regiment, inside a Blackburn Beverly about to undertake a parachute jump
A Royal New Zealand Bristol Freighter of A Flight of 41 Squadron conducting a jungle resupply air drop
Lance Corporal J Hughes of 22 SAS stands beside a typical pack carried during jungle operations, weighed 70 pounds and could sustain an individual for 14 days
Sergeant William Goldie of the 1st Battalion Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment searches a Malay cyclist on a road near Ipoh for any supplies or material he may be smuggling to the Communists
Men of a contact section from the Cameronians' (Scottish Rifles) displaying flags and caps taken from Communist Guerillas after attacking their camp. The man crouching in front of the patrol is an Iban Tracker who led them to the camp
Sergeanr R Beaumont of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached to the Malay Regiment instructs a Dyak Tracker in the use of modern firearms
Mr. F B K Drake (right) Civilian Liaison Officer- in- Charge of Dyak Trackers in Malaya talks with some of his selected jungle fighters with a unit of the Royal Malay Regiment
The Aussies. Lt Gen Sir Henry Wells, Chief of General Staff inspects Troops from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 1956
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Infantry Regiments 1 * Somerset Light Infantry Suffolk Regt Devonshire Regt Infantry Regiments 2 * Royal West Kent Regt various Infantry Regiments 3 * Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry East Yorkshire Regt West Yorkshire Regt Green Howards Infantry Regiments 4 * Royal Hampshire Regt Cheshire Regt Royal Lincolnshire Regt - Manchester Regt Worcestershire Regt
Gurkha Regiments
2nd King Edward Own Gurkha Rifles 6th Queen Elizabeths Own Gurkha rifles 7th Duke of Edinburghs Own Gurkha Rifles 10th Princess Marys Own Gurkha Rifles Gurkha Engineers - Gurkha Signals Gurkha Service Corps
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22nd Special Air Service Regiment Corps 1 Royal Army Service Corps
Corps 2
Royal Army Ordnance Corps Royal Army Pay Corps Royal Pioneer Corps Royal Military Police Intelligence Corps Royal Engineers - Royal Corps of Signals - Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Army Catering Corps Womens Royal Army Corps
Troops
Colonial Troops Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylon) Kings African Rifles (Kenya) Fijian Rifles Sarawak Rangers Royal Malay Regiment Federation Regiment Homeguard Units Federation Of Malaya Police including the Senoi
The Enemy Communist Party of Malaya The dead and the captured
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Sergeant Choo Woh Soon PGB (centre) of the 1st Federation Regiment was responsible for the killing of Ngow Lai, one of the CTs involved in killing Sir Henry Gurney
Combined Patrol of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment and the Sarawak Rangers
Home Guards
Sir Winston Churchill appointed Sir Gerald Templar as High Commissioner to deal with the Malayan Emergency on the 22nd January 1952.
He coined the phrase, hearts and minds, realizing more Troops would not win the war
When he left Malaya in 1954, Time magazine said that the jungle had been stabilized, the General said, I will shoot the bastard who says that the Emergency is over.
In 1950 Field Marshall Slim recalled Lt General Harold Briggs to active duty to become Director of Operations in Malaya
The Briggs plan was to isolate the civilian populace from the Communists. Preventing the Min Yuen (logistics procurement elements) to have ease of supplies and information.
New Villages via the Briggs Plan, created gated communities during the Emergency
Food served and rationed, inhabitants are given just enough under the watchful eyes of the soldiers (background)
Ration Card
Reward Posters
Servant of the Empire Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, was appointed High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya, he was a stern and incorruptible. He was 53 years old at that time on the 15th October 1951. He was a public school man (Winchester) and an Oxford graduate. He said, we are fighting militant Communism and we intend to finish it off. The Communist response was this: At milestone 56, Frasers Hill along a 400 yard S bend, from 38 skillfully concealed positions the Communists sprung the ambush on his official car, a Rolls-Royce, escorted by an armoured truck and a radio van. Sir Henrys driver fell dead. Two tires squished flat and the governor himself felt the sting of a bullet. He pushed Lady Gurney to the floor of the car and told her to stay down, opened the door and staggered badly wounded, along the road, deliberately drawing fire away from the Rolls. A fusillade of shots followed his staggering figure. He fell face down on the road.
The rumble startsBritish bunker complex in the war against Indonesian aggressors, Sarawak border
Forward bases
continued Bases
A lookout and machine gun at Stass Base camp at the border used by A Company of the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
5 unidentified British gunners preparing to fire a l5 Pack Howitzer at the Shelldrake gun position at A Company, 3rd Bn. The Royal Australian Regiment forward base at Stass
1965 1st Malaysian Rangers operating at the Malaysia/Thai border leap from a RAAF 5 squadron Bell Iroquis Helicopter
1964-Lt Col Kellway-Bamber (left) , CO of 1st Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders inspects Border Scouts attached to him. The Border Scouts were born warriors, steadily improved by Major John Cross (right) (7th Gurkhas Officer)
Malaysian Forces Reconnaissance Regiment mans the forward observation posts at Paradise and Honalula set up on the coast of Sabah facing the Indonesian held part of Sabatic Island
The Royal Malay Regiment in action in a rubber estate near Pontian Kechil, which resulted in the killing of 4 Indonesian Commandos
Guarding the Linggi River from possible Indonesian infiltration from the sea. Attempts made were thwarted by Aussie Troops
Left: Iban Trackers, an unidentified Iban tracker attached to D Company 3 RAR, showing off his tattooed back at Bau. Right: RAR patrol at border, 43248 2Lt Douglas Roy Byers with trackers
Left to right: SAS Trooper, Gurkha with tracker dog (Labrador) and Penan tracker
Dead and captured Indonesian Enemy, captured enemy emerging from behind a Kampong house in the River Kesang area. They were captured by 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)
The faces of defeat, captured Indonesian paratroopers being guarded by the Malaysian Police
Captured Indonesian being escorted to the terminal building in Sibu, the soldier is carrying the captured enemys machine gun
Captured Indonesian
Casualties
Commonwealth Troops (British, Australian, New Zealanders, Malaysians and Singaporeans) Killed in action - 114 Wounded 181 Indonesians killed 590 Indonesian prisoners - 770
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