PLEASE could someone inform me why it is only service personnel who served in Malaya during the years 1957-1966 who are receiving the Pengat Jasa commemorative medals from the Malaysian government?
I consider that most of the terrorists had been killed, captured or surrendered long before these years.
I served with the 1st Battalion Royal Hampshire Regt in the Malayan jungle 1954-1956 along with many thousands of others.
Most of the states of Malaya were declared safe areas just after the Battalion was posted to Borneo in 1957. Does this mean that all those people who served before 1957 and I might add men who lost their lives are not recognised?
E KENWAY, Littleton, Winchester.
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