Scattered throughout the collection are lists of POWs and papers which throw light on the experience of being a POW. During that late afternoon from their position at Bukit Timah Road they saw, some few hundred yards in front of them, a small convoy of open military vehicles moving away to their left. Honours and awards, 8th Battalion, 1915-1918 (K1/1) Douglas Harveywas a wheelwright when he became a Private in the 5th Suffolk Regiment at the outset of war, but was later transferred into the Catering Corps. On arrival at North Walsham, introduction into the army began immediately with the issuing of uniforms and the commencement of training. 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. When an area had been swept it was designated a 'White Area' and restrictions on the local population were lifted, encouraging them to oppose the return of any insurgents. [35], The regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment to form the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) in 1959. Lenny Murphy Born in 1952, he was a prominent member of the West Belfast UVF. Gaza (H3/2) Gallipoli (H3/1; Y1/165l, m; Y1/187b, c) Malaya (B11/5-7) Battalion. The guerrillas had the benefit of local knowledge, while the British Army was hampered by a lack of good intelligence. The full year membership runs from August to the end of July the following year. OCA registers of loans to members, 1926-1960 (V3/2-3), There are databases available in the Record Office search-room of all names in the 1914-1918 War Diaries of the 1st Battalion (856 entries) and 2nd Battalion (c600 entries). In 1960 the Emergency was declared to be over. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers disembark at Singapore at the start of the Malayan insurgency, 1948. It saw British and Commonwealth forces defeat a communist revolt in Malaya. POW magazines, c1900, c1901 (Y1/35(i),(j)), Lists of NCOs and men, 1916 (W/24) Now came the realisation that the 5th Battalion of The Suffolk Regiment, part of a Brigade considered to be a most efficient and well-trained fighting force, had travelled 20,000 miles simply to surrender. Brett DSO, at the commencement of the action and their second in command, Maj. E.C. The next port was Bombay, which was reached on the morning of 27th December and, disembarking, the troops boarded a train, the carriages of which were very unclean with hard wooden seats, the toilets being merely holes in the flooring above which users squatted or stood.After a long, overnight and most uncomfortable journey they arrived at Ahmadnagar, a small market town, and encamped at a former Indian Army barracks. While at this camp he was put to work, along with other POWs in the centre of Singapore, building a Japanese shrine (which was later demolished at the end of the war). 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. Garrison postings during this period include; Secunderabad (India) 1895, Rangoon and the Andaman Islands (Burma) 1896 to 1899, Quetta (North West Frontier) 1899 to 1902, Karachi and Hyderabad (Northern India, now Pakistan) 1902 to 1905, Madras (India) 1905 to 1907, Aden 1907, returning to England in 1908. Before he could finish this, he was moved up country into Thailand and put to work on the railway. Regimental Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 (A9/4), Officers and men awarded the New Zealand War Medal (1st Battalion), 1860-1866 (B5/1) Oral History | Imperial War Museums Templeralso involved the local population in the fight against the guerrillas by increasing the number of Malay battalions and strengthening the Home Guard raised to defend the new villages. . Lieu Kon Kim's penknife | Suffolk Regiment Museum [34] Equipped with Churchill tanks the regiment landed at Algiers in 1943, fighting at the Battle of Medjez-el Bab in the Tunisia Campaign in April 1943. 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. How different things would have been had they and other similar units received the logistic support which they expected and which they should surely have received. The printed histories do contain many names but these tend to be of officers or senior NCOs, and are selective rather than comprehensive. From 1954 there were normally 24 infantry battalions in Malaya from a wide variety of Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand. The Royal cipher is placed at the centre, and the whole medal is suspended from a 38mm wide purple ribbon by a plain silver suspender. Recipients of the French Croix de Guerre (1st Battalion), 1945 (A8/4) Publication varied from monthly to three issues a year. Grenoble, the Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes, France Lat Long Coordinates Info. While resting on these beds they were to encounter, for the first time, friendly lizards traversing the walls and ceilings snapping at the troublesome mosquitoes, a menace they had not encountered before but before too long many were to die from malaria as a result of being bitten by these deadly insects. Sgt AB Bridges, 4th Battalion: France 1914-1915 (Y1/398a) Pte GJ Steele, 5th Battalion: Japanese POW 1941-1943 (Y1/729) Pte C Hitchcock: photographs (Karlsruhe) and talk on POW experience (Y1/443), Lists of Other Ranks POWs, 1941 (W/43) They are less useful for the two World Wars owing either to non-publication or conditions imposed by censorship. The collection includes over 22,000 photographs, loose, in albums, on CDs or DVDs, illustrating the life of the regiment from 1862 to 1959: active service (from Afghanistan in 1880 onwards), peacetime activities at home and abroad, sporting and social events, individual soldiers and groups. No. 4th Battalion officers casualty list, 1914-1917 (G4/2) Paris/Lt. Jack Hind and Frederick Castle: video recordings of reminiscences (A16/39) JG Frere (Y1/119) Arriving at the region's main airport of Lyon . He was in Tamakan when he completed his masterpiece and fearing it would be found he buried it under his hut. He also persuaded the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, to set up committees containing representatives of all civil and military agencies involved in the campaign so that a co-ordinated response to the guerrillas could be formulated. The paper quality is quite good. 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. 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. Boys' Training, Director Brigade of Gurkhas Brigadiers British Army of the Rhine Guiana Honduras a British West Indies Regiment .. . They continued to wear their Suffolk Regiment cap badge on the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps as did all infantry units converted this way. Templer placed great emphasis on the need to win the 'hearts and minds' of the population. Casualties at Rensburg, South Africa, 1st Battalion, January 1900 (W/13) Arrindell, 4th Battalion: Singapore 1942 (Y1/5) [14], While garrisoning the Australian Colony of Victoria in 1854, detachments from the regiment, the 40th Regiment of Foot and colonial police, suppressed the Eureka Rebellion, by gold prospectors at Ballarat. Papers re escape from Freiburg, 1918 (Y1/29) However, due to a shortage of manpower, the regiment was disbanded in January 1945 while in northern Italy. Luxury Homes for Sale in Grenoble, Auvergne Rhne Alpes, France Sgt WH Crane, 2nd Battalion: biographical account of service (1881-1909) (Y1/492) Unidentified soldier, 5th Battalion: Gallipoli 1915 (Y1/636b) Lieut-Col AG Taylor, 4th Battalion: France 1915-1919 (Y1/251b, c) All ranks, 2nd Battalion, 17 December 1889 (W/2) Papers re Springhirsch Camp, 1918 (Y2/1d) 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. Members of A Company, 2nd Battalion after the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 August 1914 (C3/1) Sgt R Dunningham: account of experience as a Japanese POW (Y1/614) Officers, WOs and NCOs, 1st Battalion, September 1890 (W/2) Maj KH Leese: reminiscences of Razmak (1939-1940) (Y1/529) The regimental archives do not contain individual soldiers papers; there are no muster rolls of the whole regiment and few of a whole battalion. British battalions normally spent three years in Malaya. Pte KV Perryman: reminiscences of National Service, (1954) (Y1/452) Empire Pte AW Fenn, 2nd Battalion: France 1917 (Y1/109) C Company, No.9 Platoon, 9th Battalion, c1915 (Y1/292) Dave for the occasion played the piccolo. The 2nd Battalion held their defensive position despite losing their commanding officer, Lt. Col. C.A.H. . On 18 November 1940, the command was placed under the command of the British Far East Command and later, on 7 January 1942, under the short-lived South West Pacific Command or ABDACOM, which was tasked to maintain control of the "Malay Barrier" (or "East Indies Barrier"), a notional line running down the Malayan Peninsula, through Singapore and the southernmost islands of the Dutch East Indies. Pte CE Manning, 5th Battalion: reminiscences of time as Japanese POW (Y1/478) After leaving Halifax they sailed south along the Eastern coast of America arriving at Port of Spain, Trinidad on 17th November for the purpose of refuelling and stock replenishment which was carried out in the harbour without docking and no shore leave. India (A12/12, 15; B13/5; Y1/35c-f, 179cc-ff, mm, nn) Burma (A13/15; C7/5) Thisallowed the British to take the offensive against the MNLA in jungle operations that usually called for stealth and a high degree of patience. This was despite the fact that the German Army, knowing the 2nd Battalion had no hope of survival, entreated them to surrender, even ordering the German buglers to sound the British Cease Fire and gesticulating for the men of the 2nd to lay down their arms. General Sir Gerald Templer was appointed both Director of Operations and High Commissioner shortly after. [26], Almost totally decimated as a fighting unit after over eight hours of incessant fighting, the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment was gradually outflanked but would still not surrender. Thought the presentation & interpretation made the subject accessible". For others, it was a time of great camaraderie. As Templer's new policies began to take effect, the flow of information to the security forces increased. Now they were subjected to attack by machine gun and rifle fire, and also by mortar bombs. During the Malaya Emergency, the British Army witnessed the rebirth of a very specialized unit, the SAS. Doughty, who was severely wounded after six hours of battle as he went forward to take ammunition to the hard-pressed battalion machine gunners.