Photos Malayan Emergency, Indonesian confrontation and the War in Borneo.

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Privates T Farley, R A Smith and M J Pickworth of the New Zealand Regiment, carrying rifles on the fringes of the Malayan rain forest. Photograph taken by an unidentified New Zealand Army photographer in Malaya, 23 October 1958, during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). National Library of New Zealand - PA1-q-319, M 3151.
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Lance Corporal J Hughes of 22 Special Air Service Regiment kitted up with his pack for jungle operations during the Malayan Emergency, 1957.

 

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A 1 RAR company on the way to Malaya 1959.

 

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A Naval Wessex from HMS Albion departs after moving a Gurkha patrol into the Malaysian jungle back in 1966

 

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New Zealand troopers in Malaya, April 1957.

 

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Local children watch as Westland Belvedere HC.1 XG453 of No 66 Squadron takes off from Krokong, Sarawak, after it had transported a group of Ghurkhas during the Indonesian Confrontation, 1964.

 

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A patrol from Battle-class destroyer HMS Barrosa (D68), aboard a perau, on a coastal patrol off the coast of Sarawak, April 1964

HMS Barrosa’s 1965-66 deployment to the Far East station. Barrosa was part of a task force supporting British operations in Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation.

The sailors were tasked with carrying out stop and search patrols of local vessels suspected of smuggling weapons and equipment to communist insurgents. Off the coast of North Borneo and western Malaysia the Barrosa stopped vessels out at sea while parties of sailors used small local vessels, like peraus, to patrol the coastal waters.