They are listed in chronological order, with an indication of where the diarist was serving. Honours and awards, 7th Battalion, 1939-1945 (J3/1) The regimental archives do not contain individual soldiers papers; there are no muster rolls of the whole regiment and few of a whole battalion. Sky reverb. Pte AG Stiles, 5th Battalion: Egypt 1917-1918 (Y1/384), Unidentified soldier, 2nd Battalion: India 1930 (Y3/11), Pte FE Hammond, 5th Battalion: Japanese POW 1941-1943 (Y1/134) The rare exception to this was the deaths of over 20 civilians at Batang Kali in December 1948. [6], As a result of the 1751 army reforms, it was renamed the 12th Regiment of Foot and in 1758, the second battalion was detached to form the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot. Members of A Company, 2nd Battalion after the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 August 1914 (C3/1) Donate to COFEPOW instantly - simply click on the button below. 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. Training occurred at a Jungle Warfare School, which also worked out the best tactics based on experience gained in the field. The Malayan Emergency (1948-60) was one of the few successful counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Western powers during the Cold War. Malaya - Army NZ Regt 19 Dec 1952 Ashes returned to NZ HAY Bruce Harvey Private 38797 Malaya - Army 2NZRegt 25 Mar 1961 Kamunting Rd Christian Cem. 4th Battalion officers casualty list, 1914-1917 (G4/2) There are printed examples listed in the Printed Sources page. Beattie RE, 137th (2nd West Lancashire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. Gilbert Daly Holmes (, 80th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery Lt. Col. William E.S. He managed to conceal this in the bottom of his kit bag and was later moved back to Changi Jail where he remained for the duration of his captivity. In 1960 the Emergency was declared to be over. 1203 Uatted Flngdom es ess. He was in Tamakan when he completed his masterpiece and fearing it would be found he buried it under his hut. 4th Battalion, 8 November 1914 (G4/1) and 1 January 1915 (G2/1) 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. The 2,500 prisoners were forced into the hold of the ship until it became full. With the bulk of British forces being tied down in Europe and North Africa, the command was mainly augmented by units from India. [24][7], The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 84th Brigade in the 28th Division in January 1915 for service on the Western Front and then transferred to Egypt in 24 October 1915. Ponggol Point was right on the water's edge and the only defences were bundles of empty tin cans strung along and suspended on wire just above the waterline; this rudimentary system was to supposedly serve as an audible alarm against the enemy making landings at night. (The Museum holds an almost complete run of the Army List from 1826 to 1959), List of graves in the Transvaal, 1902 (A14/8) The authorities were able to prevent the guerrillas from disrupting the economy, overrunning towns or controlling territory. The culpable lack of information, instruction and physical back-up support whilst occupying a front line disposition meant they had been absolutely static. It saw British and Commonwealth forces defeat a communist revolt in Malaya. Regimental Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 (A9/4), Officers and men awarded the New Zealand War Medal (1st Battalion), 1860-1866 (B5/1) In April and May 1952 the battalion moved down to the State of Perak where a concentrated offensive against the Communist terrorists was taking place.. Operations in the new area started slowly but confidentally as soldiers got to know the new area of operations. For others, it was a time of great camaraderie. Gaza (H3/2) Gallipoli (H3/1; Y1/165l, m; Y1/187b, c) Malaya (B11/5-7) 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. Both battalions were assigned to the 54th Infantry Brigade, which included the 4th Royal Norfolk Regiment, assigned to the 18th Infantry Division, a 2nd Line duplicate of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division. A tough soldier and Britain's youngest Lieutenant-General at age 44, Templer directed the Emergency into an offensive against the 'Communist Terrorists' (CTs) (CO . Battalion. B Company, 5th Battalion, 1915-1919 (Y1/165(p)) Reinforcements were sent from August 1948 onwards. Global Role. Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881. With a police force of 40,000 men it was now possible to clear an area of guerrillas. 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. Most of the time the weather was fine and very, very hot. Ungathered Moss by Brig. But they were unable to completely stop their activities. Pte AJ Coote: reminiscences of service in Malaya 1951-1953 (Y1/436) Lists of officers and men (Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiments), 1943-1945 (W/44) Pte GJ Steele, 5th Battalion: Japanese POW 1941-1943 (Y1/729) 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. Here at Cape Town in glorious warm weather they were given three days leave. WOs and Sergeants, 1st Battalion, 1955-1959 (W/51), OCA membership registers, 1908-1955 (V1/1-2) Knife and belt used by communist forces in Malaya, 1955. In that situation they were given no chance to prove themselves in actual combat. After one back-breaking day, Doug Harvey picked up a small round section of a teak tree and took it back to the Bukit Timah camp with the other pieces of wood intended for burning, but he kept and hid the small round section. List of graves in the Orange River Colony, 1902 (A14/9) 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment; . 2nd Lieut JA Blanch, 2nd Battalion: Germany (POW) 1918 (Y1/28) 5th Suffolk Regiment The following summary of the 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment has been taken from the War Memoirs of Ken Bailey who has given COFEPOW permission to use his work. The history covers the regular, militia, volunteer and war-time battalions as well as the experience of individual soldiers and is told through medals, uniforms, photographs, weapons, equipment and personal memorabilia. From there you will be able to access the list of FEPOWs under the resources tab. The 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment had just returned from fighting in Mayala and are seen here . The dropping of the atom bombs caused the Regiment to be withdrawn from any landings on the west coast of Malaya. All ranks, 2nd Battalion, 31 May 1900 (W/13) Postcards from Doberitz, 1916 (Y1/231g) [5] Returning to Flanders in 1742 during the War of the Austrian Succession, it fought at Dettingen in June 1743 and Fontenoy in May 1745, where it suffered 322 casualties, the largest of any British unit involved. When individuals on a photograph are named, this fact is noted in the catalogue. 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. 243 Squadron RAF 2 Brewster Buffalo, until early 1900: Major-General John Baillie Ballantyne Dickson, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 09:00. Lieut-Col JM Perceval: Ireland, Belgium, France 1833-1837 (Y1/200a) The region now has a handful of airports taking international flights. The cutting is fairly old and will probably show signs of age and use. Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment (possibly C Company) cross a stream in the middle of a jungle swamp whilst on a patrol during the Malayan Emergency. Scattered throughout the collection are lists of POWs and papers which throw light on the experience of being a POW. George Arthur Carrick Kiernan, 2nd Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Forces (Selangor) - Lt. Col. W.M. 8th Battalion, 1940-1946 (K3/3) who were leaving Singapore to take up stations on Java. Tyson. Colonel Godfrey's grandfather, Arthur Hayward Godfrey served as an officer in both world wars. )1957: General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), SHAPE . [32], The 1st battalion saw action in the campaign against the Moplahs in Malabar in 1922 while the 2nd battalion was deployed to Shanghai in 1927 before moving to India in 1929. They were forced to just wait for the inevitable. Maj JW Espinasse, Reserve/2nd Battalion: voyages on active service 1842-1858 (Y1/103) 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. Although many Chinese lived in the cities, others - known as 'squatters' - lived at the fringes of the jungle and could aid the guerrillas. Discover your dream home among our modern houses, penthouses and. It lasted for nearly two months from November 1952 and also involved a company of Fijian infantry and two battalions of the 2/7th Ghurkha Rifles. 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 Welcome to our latest sale May 2023, this sale features some very fine sections for you to enjoy. Now came the official order that all weapons were to be handed over to the enemy, followed by much activity between British officers and the Japanese. Service histories of c 4,800 NCOs and men, 4th Battalion, 1916-1919 (G4/4-6) Sgt E ONeill, 1st Battalion: 1899-1902 (Y1/190d,e), Sgt BOG Haylock, 1st Battalion: Egypt 1911-1913 (Y1/395a), Unidentified soldier, 2nd Battalion: France 1914 (Y3/7) The full year membership runs from August to the end of July the following year. Whitman RE, 100th Light Tank Squadron (Arrived 29-Jan-1942 Convoy BM11) Major Jack Alford (, 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Lt. Col. Ian Conway Gilford Lywood (, 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment Lt. Col. Alfred Ernest Knights, 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment Lt. Col. Lionel John Baker, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment Lt. Col. Gerald Goodwin Carpenter, 118th (8th London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) - (Arrived 29 January 1942 Convoy BM11) Lt. Col. C.E.Mackellar, 125th (Northumbrian) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - (Arrived 5 February 1942 Convoy BM12) Lt. Col. James Dean, 251st Field Park Company (Arrived 5-Feb-1942 Convoy BM12), Detachment from No. Paris/Lt. (It is worth noting that America did not enter the war officially as allies until 8th December 1941!). 5th Battalion, 1942-1945 (H2/2-4) From 1954 there were normally 24 infantry battalions in Malaya from a wide variety of Commonwealth countries, including Australia and New Zealand. Templer placed great emphasis on the need to win the 'hearts and minds' of the population. Pte RA Bostick: reminiscences (Malaya) (Y1/463) [25] The value of the 2nd Battalion's 20 years of peacetime training was exemplified at the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, a mere 23 days since Britain had declared war on Germany. 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) With his piece of round teak and array of tools he began to secretly carve his piece of wood into the insignia of his regiment -The 5th Suffolks. At the end of each day after cutting up trees for the Shrine, the POWs used to take small broken pieces of wood back to the camp to light up the fires to boil their rice. Pte WW Bell, 2nd Battalion: biography (1893-1905) (Y1/515), CSM C Smith, Suffolk Yeomanry: reminiscences (Y1/380) The 5th Suffolks, still in their position at Bukit Timah Road, were amongst trees and mangrove shrubs just a short distance in front of Raffles' College, which was the Battalion Headquarters. Census entry for Depot (3rd Battalion), 1891 (E9/1) L/Cpl JF Bunn, 2nd and 12th Battalions: autobiography (Y1/435) Capt PDA Clarke, 5th Battalion: Japanese POW 1941-1945 (Y1/65) Gazette. Engagement. Special Air Service patrol in the Malayan jungle, 1957. At that moment of disembarking they were under heavy attack from Japanese aircraft, and with the realisation that the R.A.F. The following summary of the 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment has been taken from the War Memoirs of Ken Bailey who has given COFEPOW permission to use his work. 5, September/October 1943 (Y1/582c). AUSTRALIAN STATES (part 2) VICTORIA with ultra . Alternatively, send a cheque to our treasurer, Cheques should be made payable to COFEPOW and sent to the following address:-, Mr. David BrownCOFEPOW14 RidgecroftAshton-Under-LyneLancashireOL7 9TGUnited Kingdom, Choose between a single or joint membership. In early October 1941, whilst at Leominster (at which stage they were considered to be a fully trained, most efficient and well-equipped fighting unit), they were informed that they would be going overseas, possibly for service in the Middle East, being issued with khaki drill tunics, topis and the most ridiculous sloppy, button-down over-the-knees khaki drill shorts. [21], The spirit of independence and self-reliance exhibited by officers and non-commissioned officers led to the 2nd Battalion taking first place in the Quetta Division of the British Army of India, from a military effectiveness point of view, in a six-day test. 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. It is not a copy or modern reproduction. [33], The 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment was serving in India at the outbreak of the Second World War, spending the early years of the war mainly deployed on internal security duties. 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 Malaya Command was a formation of the British Army formed in the 1920s for the coordination of the defences of British Malaya, which comprised the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States. [37], The regiment's battle honours were as follows:[7]. The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Malaya, during the period 1st January to 30th June, 1952: The Distinguished Service Order. Ken left Singapore and was sent overland to Thailand and the Burma railway where he worked for the most part at Chungkai. Pte D Chilvers: reminiscences of service in Cyprus (1958-1959) (Y1/781). Asia Col R Bayly: India 1796-1830 (Y1/21) (Published as Diary of Colonel Bayly, 12th Regiment (1896)) Before he could finish this, he was moved up country into Thailand and put to work on the railway. On 6 July 1952 'B' Company, deploying nine patrols, began to search the . the morale of the defending troops was obviously sinking lower by the hour. Pte WJ Strange, 25th Battalion, London Regt: Waziristan 1917 (Y1/381) 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). South Africa (A14/14-16) Egypt and the Sudan (B11/1-2), An Accredited Museum | Registered Charity No. The 1st Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Richard E. Goodwin, landed on Sword beach and was involved in attacking and taking the Hillman Fortress on D-Day itself. Maj ER Cooper, 3rd Volunteer Battalion: home 1915-1920 (Y1/72a, b) 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. [7] During the 1756 to 1763 Seven Years' War, it fought at the battles of Minden, Villinghausen and Wilhelmsthal, as well as the Siege of Cassel. However, due to a shortage of manpower, the regiment was disbanded in January 1945 while in northern Italy. He embraced Briggs' ideas with energy, ensuring that a co-ordinated command structure was established. Interviews with veterans of World War 1 and 2 (1985) (A16/44) For those that have renewed their membership in 2022 via a direct debit, PayPal, cheque or bank transfer, the list of FEPOWs can still be accessed via this page: List of FEPOWs. [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. [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. Those remaining alive were taken captive by the Germans, spending the next four years as prisoners of war and not returning home until Christmas Day 1918. 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. Another disheartening happening was the sight of clouds of smoke billowing from oil tanks set on fire by British troops in a 'scorched earth' policy to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands. Between 1963 and 1966, British Commonwealth forces fought against Indonesia in a conflict that focused on the future of Brunei and North Borneo. In late 1941 the 18th Division, the 4th and 5th Suffolks included, were originally to be sent to Egypt but instead were sent to Singapore to help strengthen the garrison there after Japan entered the war in December 1941. The Auvergne - Rhne-Alpes being a dynamic, thriving area, modern architects and museums also feature, for example in cities like Chambry, Grenoble and Lyon, the last with its opera house boldly restored by Jean Nouvel.
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