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Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 2,668 Send Message	Cooper	Report	25 Mar 2014 16:11
	I was looking through my late Dads photos and found some when he was serving in Mersing Malaya in 1949. He was also in Hong Kong in 1945 and ? Pooma ( I think it says) His battalion was the Buffs He looks well and the photos and smiling with the other soldiers. He said he was a medical orderly. Can any one shed any light on the location and why he may have been there? Many thanks Teresa
	Researching: Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,259 Send Message	Porkie_Pie	Report	25 Mar 2014 18:20
	Google The Malayan Emergency, it was a guerrilla war also see http://britains-smallwars.com/malaya/reg.html#army http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_malaya.html Roy
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 2,668 Send Message	Cooper	Report	25 Mar 2014 20:17
	Hi Roy, thanks so much for the information, my Dad was in the west Kents. It looks from the information that he was sent as part of the Medical team with other units. sorry I took a while to get back. My Daughter is doing thr the"race for life" and we were out training :-) Teresa
	Researching: Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)