Honoring the fallen and

Those who have served

Deeds of valor and sacrifice

Band of Brothers

They went with songs to the battle

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and

aglow.

They were staunch to the end

against odds uncounted They fell with their faces to the foe

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor

the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in

the morning we will remember them

Images of Commonwealth Troops (Our Allies) during the Emergency 1948-1960

A British Sergeant on patrol Malaya 1952

Patrol

SAS Trooper

A British patrol led by a Malayan guide 1948

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

Burning down a Communist Camp

The Aussies. Lt Gen Sir Henry Wells, Chief of General Staff inspects Troops from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment 1956

From The Straits Times

Bentong. Thursday. In a deadly surprise ambush in a White Area 30 miles from here a terrorist gang yesterday killed 8 men of the 6th Bn. Royal Malay Regiment and wounded 3 other people. It was one of the worst incidents of the Emergency. A British NCO, Staff Sergeant F.M Harris and a Malay Officer Captain Shukor bin Chik were among the dead. Sgt. Harriss 14 year old son, Arnold was slightly wounded. The terrorist gang numbering 30, is believed to have crossed into Pahang to find a soft target and capture weapons. Because a wounded soldier Pte. Aman, kept them at bay with his Bren gun, fed with ammunition from the packs of his dead comrades, the Reds only captured 3 rifles. Location & Time: 1300 hrs at the 98 mile on the Bentong-Manchis road around a bend.

An enemy ambush report in the New Straits Times

Commonwealth Forces involved in the Malayan Emergency

Royal Air Force Royal Marines Royal Artillery Guards Regiments *Grenadier Guards - Coldstream Guards - Scots Guards Cavalry Regiments * 1st Kings Dragoon Guards _ 4th Hussars 11th Hussars * 13/18 Hussars 15/19 Hussars 12th Lancers Scots Regiments * Seafoth Highlanders Cameronians - various

Continued..
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

Gurkha Military Police - Depot

Continued
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

Dominion Troops Australian Units New Zealand Units

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

The Enemy continued

Enemy continued.

Enemy continued

Enemy continued

Malayan Police Border Fort (notice British Officer)

Royal Malay Regiment

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

A Ferret Scout Car of the 1st Federation Regiment on Convoy Duty

Combined Patrol of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment and the Sarawak Rangers

1st Federation Regiment

Malayan Police in their Armoured Car

Malayans in the Fight Police & Senoi

Kinta Valley Homeguards

Home Guards

The Men who led the fight

Field Marshal Sir Walter Robert Gerald Templar
Lieutenant General Harold Rawdon Briggs Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney

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.

Sir Gerald Templar reviewing the Royal Malay Regiment on Parade

In 1950 Field Marshall Slim recalled Lt General Harold Briggs to active duty to become Director of Operations in Malaya

The Briggs Plan

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

The New Village today, from the Past

Food served and rationed, inhabitants are given just enough under the watchful eyes of the soldiers (background)

Ration Card

Reward Posters

Safe Conduct Pass

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.

Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney

His final resting place at the Cheras Cemetry

Emergency Video Clip (6 minutes)

The Indonesian Confrontation

With the formation of Malaysia on 16th September 1963, where the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore joined the Federation, Indonesia mounted attacks on young Malaysia

The men who led the fight

The PM of Malaysia Tengku Abdul Rahaman

The men who led the fight

General Sir Walter Colyear Walker

The rumble startsBritish bunker complex in the war against Indonesian aggressors, Sarawak border

Forward bases

continued Bases

Base with Panjis

A lookout and machine gun at Stass Base camp at the border used by A Company of the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment

Gurkhas being deployed to a forward base by helicopter

Weapons captured from the Indons

More captured Indon Weapons

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

British Infantrys Hotchkiss 81 mm Mortars in action

RAR on patrol at the border moving along a long house

1965 1st Malaysian Rangers operating at the Malaysia/Thai border leap from a RAAF 5 squadron Bell Iroquis Helicopter

Malaysians volunteering for National Service during Confrontation

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

The Brits in the latest Sarawak wear

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

The Gurkhas with their Officer

Our Indonesian Enemy

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)

Aussies from 3RAR with captured Indonesian weapons

The faces of defeat, captured Indonesian paratroopers being guarded by the Malaysian Police

Gurkha with captured Indonesian Commando

Captured Indonesian being escorted to the terminal building in Sibu, the soldier is carrying the captured enemys machine gun

Indonesian enemy captured by Iban Border Scouts

Captured Indonesian

Dead Indonesian Commandos

The people in the fight

Units of the Malaysian Armed Forces (RMAF & RMN included) Singapore Infantry Regiments and the Guards Regiment The British Armed Forces (RN and RAF included) The Australian Forces (RAAF & RAN) New Zealand Forces

Royal Malaysian Police

Malaysian Civil Defence Units

Jungle Green 1964 Soldiering in Malaysia during Confrontation

Casualties
Commonwealth Troops (British, Australian, New Zealanders, Malaysians and Singaporeans) Killed in action - 114 Wounded 181 Indonesians killed 590 Indonesian prisoners - 770

Acknowledgements

Imperial War Museum

Commander (Rtd) Thayaparan (RMN) Lt Col (Rtd) Fatholzaman Bukhari (Rangers) Lt Col (Rtd) Idris Hassan (Royal Malay Regiment) Mr. Anthony Morris (Amateur Historian)

Prepared by

Major (Rtd) D.Swami