Norfolk Aged 64 6th Royal Norfolk Regiment Taken POW Singapore Liberated Thailand Husband of Ruby Alcock Address given as: 385 Fosse Road South Leicester But probably from Sheringham Alfred. On 6 July 1952 'B' Company, deploying nine patrols, began to search the . Pte C Allman, 4th Battalion: France 1914-1915 (Y1/2b) The initial British reaction to the crisis was to introduce emergency legislation, allowing suspects to be detained without trial. By the end of the war the 1st Battalion had lost 215 men killed in action. Douglas Charles. The 1st Battalion Royal Malay Regiment acts as the ceremonial battalion for the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and is usually accompanied by the Central Band of the Malay Regiment. When the railway was finished in October 1943 he was moved back and fortunately went back to the hospital camp at Tamakan. Grenoble, the Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes, France Lat Long Coordinates Info. In this action the 2nd Battalion undertook a fierce rear-guard defence out-manned and out-gunned by superior numbers of enemy. Since the Friends started in 2008, many of our older members who were former members of The Suffolk Regiment, have now passed onto that great parade ground in the sky. British officer served with 1st Bn Suffolk Regt, 3rd Infantry Div in Palestine, 1946-1948; served with 1st Bn Suffolk Regt, Malaya, 1949 and 1952-1953; served with 1st Bn Royal Norfolk Regt, 29th British Infantry Bde, 1st Commonwealth Div in Korea, 8/1951-8/1952; served with Aden Protectorate Levies in Aden, 1960-1962; served with 1st Bn East Sgt R Dunningham: account of experience as a Japanese POW (Y1/614) The paper quality is quite good. The situation became progressively worse, forcing the 5ths to withdraw to the area of Bukit Timah Road, some miles South West and they knew they were in a very serious situation, having been informed that the mainland troops were about to retire to Singapore, after which the Johore Causeway between the mainland and Singapore island was to be destroyed. It saw British and Commonwealth forces defeat a communist revolt in Malaya. [16], The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds from 1873, or by the Childers reforms of 1881 as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment. 142 RAC was present when the Allies overcame the Hitler Line and the Gothic Line in late 1944. The roads having been completed, the next step was to build a walkway from the foot of the hill on the other side of the reservoir up to the site of the proposed shrine at the summit. Officers, WOs and NCOs, 1st Battalion, September 1890 (W/2) 'Produced for the Army Kinema Corporation by the Malayan Film Unit'. The latitude of Grenoble, the Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes, France is 45.171547, and the longitude is 5.722387.Grenoble, the Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes, France is located at France country in the Cities place category with the gps coordinates of 45 10' 17.5692'' N and 5 43' 20.5932'' E. Here at Cape Town in glorious warm weather they were given three days leave. Notebook with testimonials made to various officers, Camp Hakodate, August/September 1945 (Y1/4) Lewis, 2nd Battalion, Malay Regiment Lt. Col. Frederick Walter Young, 2nd Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (Singapore Volunteer Corps) - Lt. Col. Donald G. Macleod, 4th Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (, Singapore Armoured Car Company, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery Lt. Col. Howard Wincent Allpres, 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery - Lt. Col. Denis Vivian Hill, 7th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. Hereward Douglas St. George Cardew, 9th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. Charles Philip Heath, 16th Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. M.S.H. The accommodation was quite substantial with the arid, dusty barrack square being centrally situated. Five days sailing time out from Liverpool they awoke in the morning to see a mass of ships approaching which was a convoy of merchant ships bound for England; this convoy being escorted by a fairly large American fleet of warships. The War Office, list October, 1952. All ranks, 2nd Battalion, 31 May 1900 (W/13) Brett DSO, at the commencement of the action and their second in command, Maj. E.C. THE SUFFOLKS IN MALAYA. 1914-15 Star Casualty Trio East Surrey Regiment. The 2nd Battalion held their defensive position despite losing their commanding officer, Lt. Col. C.A.H. Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881. Lieut HM Brown, 4th Battalion: France 1914-1917 (Y1/42b) News came that the water supply on the Island had been severed and also that the civilian population and the City were being heavily bombed. There are complete issues for the whole Army for 1733-1743 (Y1/93a), 1830 (Z1/2), 1914 (Z1/5) and 1939 (Z1/8) and the Suffolk Regiment sections only for 1685-1707, 1751, 1790, 1848, 1861 and most years from 1868 to 1950. By the end of 1951over 400,000 people had been resettled in 500 new villages. As a result, being thoroughly confused and disheartened, they disposed of rifles, machine guns, small arms ammunition and grenades by dropping them in the malarial drains and amongst the mangroves. Maj KH Leese: reminiscences of Razmak (1939-1940) (Y1/529) He was then forced to leave Tamakan and moved on to other camps further north. In that situation they were given no chance to prove themselves in actual combat. There are many maps (manuscript and printed and at a variety of scales), mostly of the areas in which the regiment served from the mid-19th century. For others, it was a time of great camaraderie. SC275468A-1. His first public engagement came in 1948, when the combined massed bands of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and Suffolk Regiments beat retreat in Aristotle Square, Salonika. The museum is open every Wednesday from 9:30am to 3:30pm, and the first Sunday of every month from 9:30am - 3:30pm. Newly arrived troops had to be taught how to live and fight in the tropical forests. Knife and belt used by communist forces in Malaya, 1955. The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. 7th Battalion wounded to 1944, Y1/433(i) Officers and men entitled to the India General Service Medal with Hazara clasp (1st Battalion), 1890 (B5/2) Pte F Chivers: typescript account of My D-Day (Y1/607), Brig WC Deller: taped reminiscences of service in Palestine (1947-1948) (Y1/407) In an effort to split the active insurgents from their passive supporters, Chinese squatters were rehoused in purpose built new villages. The guerrillas had the benefit of local knowledge, while the British Army was hampered by a lack of good intelligence. Boys' Training, Director Brigade of Gurkhas Brigadiers British Army of the Rhine Guiana Honduras a British West Indies Regiment .. . Communist flag captured by The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), 1955, Soldiers boarding a Westland Whirlwind helicopter for a patrol, 1957. 3 and 4 Sections, D Company, 1st Battalion, 1893 (Y1/35h) L/Cpl GL Raphael, 1/4th Battalion, France 1914-1915 (Y1/217) With the bulk of British forces being tied down in Europe and North Africa, the command was mainly augmented by units from India. As the convoy approached Singapore in line through the narrow Banka Straits, a single Japanese plane attacked unsuccessfully, its bombs surprisingly missing what appeared to be an easy target of some twelve ships. With the brigade, the battalion alternated between home defence duties and training to repel an expected invasion of the United Kingdom. [15], The 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment was a war-formed unit raised in June 1940, shortly after Dunkirk, and, on 10 October, was assigned to the 210th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) alongside other hostilities-only battalions. Regimental Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 (A9/1) Some recipients of the MM (1914-1918) (A8/2) Pte AW Fenn, 2nd Battalion: France 1917 (Y1/109) Pte HA Southgate: typescript biography (Great War) (Y1/728), Pte C Colwell: autobiography 12 years with the Colours (1920s/30s) (Y1/740a), Pte SMJ Dulling: typescript autobiography (Y1/430) Regiment Walking-out Dress has A Sarong!. Singapore and Malaya 1946-1950 By Adam Williams Story supplied by Peter Mersh (M1768) My father joined the Royal Air Force (at the third attempt) aged 34 in February 1941 and was commissioned into the RAF Regiment in May 1942. The convoy was escorted by American warships, including an aircraft carrier 'The Saratoga'. CQMS AW Low, 7th Battalion: France 1915 (Y1/513) The three year long struggle left millions dead, and its legacy still has explosive global impact today. Dave for the occasion played the piccolo. On 18th January 1940 many young men, barely out of their boyhood, were called up for military service. In 1950, the SAS, known initially as the Malayan Scouts, became involved in the campaign and remained there until 1958. "First time @NAM_London today. Members of A Company, 2nd Battalion after the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 August 1914 (C3/1) Discover your dream home among our modern houses, penthouses and. [10] It returned to England in 1795[11] and then embarked for India in 1796 where it took part in operations against Tipu Sultan including the Siege of Seringapatam in April 1799 during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. Brothers Casualty Medals Suffolk Regiment. This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. India (A12/12, 15; B13/5; Y1/35c-f, 179cc-ff, mm, nn) Burma (A13/15; C7/5) Napier, 1st Independent Company Major Sheppard Percy Fearon, 43rd Field Park Company, (King George V's Bengal Sappers and Miners), 2/3rd Australian Motor Company - Capt. Eventually, along with many others he was soon to find himself in captivity and marched to Changi and some time later was transferred to a camp on the Bukit Timah Road. Capt ED Wolton, 5th Battalion: taped reminiscences of service in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine (1915-1918) (Y1/275d) Collinge, Signals Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces - Lt. Col. Stanley P. Moreton, 11th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. M.L. Rank. In 1950, the Cold War significantly heated up, with the outbreak of the Korean War. List of graves in the Orange River Colony, 1902 (A14/9) A few days after Christmas, 1944, he was eventually put aboard a small, dirty, rusty old merchant ship of Dutch origin, the 'Fuij Nord' built in 1909, tonnage 3,500. On completion of the railway he was sent back to Singapore and the camp at River Valley Road. Abu Bakar bin Abdullah, Lieutenant : A Company, 2nd Battalion Malay Regiment, Malaya WW2. In the days to follow the situation became increasingly hopeless, as did the position of the Singapore population. Sgt R Walker: typescript account of service, including time as German POW (1931-1958) (Y1/678) 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment; . [36], The Suffolk Regiment Museum is based at Gibraltar Barracks in Bury St Edmunds. Leaving Cape Town on 13th December they were to enjoy some wonderful days sailing in the deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean; with cloudless skies and endless horizons, lapping up the brilliant sunshine. Gurney's death brought a turning point in the Emergency, with Gerald Templer's arrival as new High Commissioner and as Director of Operations in Malaya, in February 1952. During their time at Ahmadnagar, all regiments were set a regime of keeping fit with very hard training. Pte CW Baskett, Volunteer Company:1900-1902 (Y1/19) . Gaza (H3/2) Gallipoli (H3/1; Y1/165l, m; Y1/187b, c) Malaya (B11/5-7) Pte GJ Steele, 5th Battalion: Japanese POW 1941-1943 (Y1/729) Supporting units of the 54th Infantry Brigade occupied other troopships, the whole forming a convoy soon to leave for what was to prove ultimately, a great misadventure. Abdullah bin Shamsudin, Lt.Gen Datuk : One of the first groups of 11 Officers commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant to serve the Federation Regiment which was established in 1952. In June 1948 a state of emergency was declared in the British colony of Malaya (now Malaysia). A picturesque feature of this walking out dress, which has been approved for the Royal Air Force Regiment, Malaya, is the sarong of light blue interwoven cloth, with a vertical panel, worn to the rear, in the Royal Air Force colours of maroon, light blur and dark blue. Pte AJ Coote: reminiscences of service in Malaya 1951-1953 (Y1/436) aShoai': + 3808 Aalltary | jchooi ss 2823 Connaught Rangers aie sy . Malaya 1948-1960 - Emergency!! After these reforms, the regiment now included:[7][19], The 1st Battalion served in the Second Boer War: it assaulted a hill near Colesberg in January 1900 and suffered many casualties including the commanding officer. He was captured in the fall of Singapore I believe on the 15th February 1942 and went to Malai 1. and . NCOs and men killed, died or missing, 4th Battalion, 1915-1917 (G4/3) There is also a database available in the Bury St Edmunds Record Office searchroom which lists the officers and men on every photograph in which individuals are named; it currently (November 2015) contains over 15,000 entries. Pte WW Bell, 2nd Battalion: biography (1893-1905) (Y1/515), CSM C Smith, Suffolk Yeomanry: reminiscences (Y1/380) Main titles 'Jungle Operations: Air Supply: Malaya 1949/50' and 'A military training film supervised by an officer appointed by the General Staff - Crown copyright approved March 1950'. 14 Territorial and Volunteer battalions. Bernard Matthew Ward CB, 19391947: Col Walter Norris Nicholson CMG DSO, 19571959: Brig Richard Hobson Maxwell CB, This page was last edited on 27 March 2023, at 00:21. At this time it seemed that troops were still endeavouring to stem the tide of the enemy advance on the Malayan mainland whilst they were being continually attacked, not only by ground forces, but by Japanese aircraft, artillery and mortar fire as well. Publication varied from monthly to three issues a year. If you have signed up to our new membership system then please access the List of FEPOWs via your new login. In November 1941, with the threat of invasion reduced due to the oncoming winter, the battalion was converted to a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps, becoming 142nd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (142 RAC) and joined 25th Army Tank Brigade. Photocopies of recommendations and citations for gallantry awards, 1940-1958 (A8/7) The Suffolk Regiment was formed in 1685 when King James II ordered the Duke of Norfolk to raise a regiment against the threatened Monmouth Rebellion. But of all the absurdities and blunders associated with the Fall of Singapore was the fact that Doug Harvey remembers that he and many others arriving at the docks were issued with a rifle minus any bolt or ammunition. They didn't have long to wait before being given the fateful news that the Japanese now had a foothold on the island. Suffolk regiment malaya 1952 studebaker. He was promoted to field marshal in 1956. In 1943 the battalion transferred to the 123rd Indian Infantry Brigade, part of the 5th Indian Infantry Division and served with them in the Burma Campaign. The insurgency was described as an 'emergency' because insurers would not have compensated plantation and mine owners if it had been labelled a 'war'. 1914-15 Star Casualty South Wales Borderers. . 12/02/1952. Those who were to become soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, a Territorial Unit, reported for training at North Walsham in Norfolk. On 18th January 1940 many young men, barely out of their boyhood, were called up for military service. General Sir Gerald Templer (left) testing a De Lisle carbine, south Perak, 1952. In 1950, Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Briggs was appointed Director of Operations in Malaya. This won him the support of many nationalists. The Clermont-Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes Centre brings together the units located in the Auvergne region, from Bourbonnais to Aurillac via Clermont-Ferrand, with 14 research units and 14 experimental facilities, representing 840 staff (permanent and contractual staff). Account of the service of Grenadier Stutter, by his niece (1751-1763) (Y1/149) This museum tells the story of the Suffolk Regiment which existed from 1685-1959. HQ: Singapore, Commanding Officer: Brig.A.C.M. George Arthur Carrick Kiernan, 2nd Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces (Selangor) - Lt. Col. W.M. Still studied today, itprovides many important lessons on how such campaigns should be conducted. Of particular note are: Trench maps, Western Front (A13/5-7; C2/2; C7/3; Y1/36b, 116, 164a, r,168a, 212g, 244c,323p, q) The 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment had just returned from fighting in Mayala and are seen here . This was the rebirth of the SAS from its post-war demise and it was also the catalyst that enabled the SAS to gain itself a permanent position in the UK forces order of battle. [22], In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the Territorial Force and the latter the Special Reserve;[23] the regiment now had one Reserve and three Territorial battalions. After allocation of deck and bunk hammock spaces, they set sail the next day together with two other similar troopships, the 'Mount Vernon' and the 'West Point', both former American luxury liners of similar tonnage to the 'Wakefield' and carrying the 53rd Infantry Brigade.
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