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The Malayan Trilogy series of novels (1956–1959) by Anthony Burgess is set during the Malayan Emergency. In The Sweeney episode "The Bigger They Are" (series 4, episode 8; 26 October 1978), the tycoon Leonard Gold is being blackmailed by Harold Collins, who has a photo of him present at a massacre of civilians in Malaya when he was in the ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:55, 5 September 2024: 804 × 857 (783 KB): Abdul Rahman Muazzam: Uploaded a work by British soldier serving in the Malayan Emergency. from War diary belonging to a soldier of the British Army's Suffolk Regiment, 17 April 1952 - 5 January 1953, Suffolk county archives (Bury St Edmunds), GB554/B/2/10.
In this 1952 photograph, a communist guerrilla is held at gunpoint following his capture by Commonwealth forces. The Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war between the Federation of Malaya—a protectorate of Britain until August 1957, and part of the Commonwealth of Nations thereafter [2] —and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP).
Pages in category "Malayan Emergency" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Bukit Kepong incident was an armed encounter in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency between the Federation of Malaya Police and the guerrillas of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). This conflict took place in an area surrounding the Bukit Kepong police station in Bukit Kepong.
By the time the 2nd Battalion of the New Zealand Regiment arrived in late 1959, to replace the 1st Battalion, most of the Communist guerrillas had retreated across the border into southern Thailand and the Malayan government saw the security situation to be stable enough to declare the Emergency over on 31 July 1960. New Zealand soldiers would ...
The assassination of Sir Henry Gurney took place on 6 October 1951 at the height of the Malayan Emergency. Gurney, the British High Commissioner in Malaya, was killed by members of the Malayan Communist Party at Mile 56 ½ of Kuala Kubu Road on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting. [1] [2]
The Batang Kali massacre was the killing of 24 unarmed male civilians in Batang Kali by the British Army's Scots Guards on 12 December 1948. The massacre took place in Batang Kali, Malaya (now Malaysia) during the Malayan Emergency, a communist insurgency involving the British Commonwealth and communist guerrillas belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). [1]