Revised 1/10/2011
Dead of the British Armed Forces During the Malaya Emergency 1948-1960
This is a list of the British Armed Forces that died during the Malaya Emergency 1948-1960;they were all classed as being on active service. However it does not indicate whether they died in action, or by accident tropical disease or any other reasons.
Not all of the British Regiments that served in Malaya may be on this list (only those having Casualties)
Other Regiments shown on this list were not in Malaya but their men were detached to regiments that were.
The Cemeteries where they are buried :-
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. Cemetery No. and Location |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
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Page |
Service, Regiment Or Corps |
KR |
TM |
SN |
KL |
BG |
TG |
PG |
CR |
MOR |
Total |
|
|
Royal Navy & Royal Fleet Auxiliary |
29 |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
3 |
23 |
- |
57 |
||
|
Royal Marines Commando Bge |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
11 |
11 |
- |
11 |
- |
34 |
||
|
1st Kings Dragoon Guards |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
4 |
||
|
4th Queens Own Hussars |
1 |
- |
- |
11 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
20 |
||
|
9/12th Royal Lancers.(Prince of Wales) |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
- |
2 |
- |
1 |
- |
7 |
||
|
11th Hussars(Prince Alberts Own) |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
5 |
||
|
13th 18th Royal Hussars Queen Mary's Own |
4 |
- |
3 |
1 |
- |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
12 |
||
|
15th 19th Kings Own Hussars |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
9 |
- |
1 |
- |
10 |
||
|
3rd Royal Tank Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Royal Artillery Regiments (R.A.) |
13 |
6 |
4 |
22 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
10 |
66 |
||
|
Corps of Royal Engineer (RE) |
19 |
- |
1 |
13 |
- |
3 |
2 |
4 |
17 |
59 |
||
|
Corps of Royal Signals (RS) |
8 |
2 |
- |
13 |
- |
- |
2 |
4 |
6 |
35 |
||
|
2nd Guards Bge Commander |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards |
1 |
- |
- |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
-- |
7 |
||
|
2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
6 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
8 |
||
|
2nd Bn. Scots Guards |
- |
- |
- |
12 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
13 |
||
|
1st Bn.The Queens Royal Reg(West Surrey) |
2 |
- |
2 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
12 |
|||
|
Royal East Kents(The Buffs) |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
East Surrey Regiment |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
|||
|
1st Bn. Queens Own Royal West Kents |
1 |
- |
- |
24 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
25 |
||
|
Border Regiment |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Royal Fusiliers |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
||
|
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Kings Regiment |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. Manchester Regiment |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
6 |
1 |
- |
14 |
||
|
1st Bn. Suffolk Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
20 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
21 |
||
|
1st Bn. Royal Lincolnshire Regiment |
2 |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
4 |
- |
2 |
- |
10 |
||
|
Essex Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. Devonshire Regiment |
8 |
- |
- |
13 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
24 |
||
|
1st Bn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Inf. |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
11 |
5 |
9 |
3 |
- |
30 |
||
|
1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry |
1 |
- |
- |
18 |
2 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
22 |
||
|
Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (P.W.O) |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
- |
2 |
- |
5 |
||
|
1st Bn East Yorkshire Regiment. (D.Y.O) |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
- |
10 |
||
|
1st Bn.Green Howards |
1 |
- |
8 |
7 |
1 |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
19 |
||
|
1st Bn.Royal Scots Fusiliers |
2 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
2 |
2 |
- |
8 |
||
|
Highland Light Infantry |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. Cheshire Regiment |
4 |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
8 |
||
|
2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers |
2 |
- |
- |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
13 |
||
|
1st Bn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
3 |
||
|
1st Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5 |
||
|
1st Bn. Cameronians(Scotttish Rifles) |
10 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
11 |
- |
22 |
||
|
Gloucestershire Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Royal Berkshire Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment |
10 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
2 |
- |
7 |
- |
20 |
||
|
Black Watch (R.H.R.) |
-- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
3 |
||
|
1stBn.Sherwood Foresters Notts& Derby |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
||
|
1st Bn. Loyal Regiment .(North Lancs) |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
7 |
||
|
Kings Own Royal Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
-- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
South Lancashire Regiment |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
1st Bn. Royal Hampshire Regiment |
- |
- |
- |
10 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
10 |
||
|
1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders |
14 |
1 |
- |
2 |
- |
1 |
- |
4 |
- |
22 |
||
|
Queens Own Cameron Highlanders |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
||
|
1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders |
2 |
- |
- |
8 |
- |
4 |
- |
4 |
- |
18 |
||
|
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
||
|
Royal Ulster Rifles |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
||
|
Brigade of Gurkha (Total only see page 29) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
369 |
||
|
22nd Special Air Service Regt (SAS) |
2 |
- |
1 |
16 |
- |
3 |
1 |
- |
- |
23 |
||
|
Army Air Corps |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Glider Pilot Regiment |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
||
|
Royal Army Service Corps (R.A.S.C) |
19 |
9 |
- |
40 |
7 |
10 |
2 |
11 |
18 |
116 |
||
|
Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) |
3 |
- |
- |
6 |
1 |
1 |
- |
9 |
2 |
22 |
||
|
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (R.A.O.C.) |
11 |
|
- |
3 |
- |
- |
1 |
6 |
5 |
26 |
||
|
Corps Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (R,E.M.E.) |
22 |
1 |
2 |
12 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
8 |
8 |
60 |
||
|
Royal Military Police (R.M.P.) |
5 |
- |
1 |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
1 |
13 |
||
|
Royal Army Pay Corps (R.A.P.C.) |
3 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
||
|
Military Provost Staff Corps (M.P.S.C.) |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
||
|
Royal Army Education Corps. (R.A.E.C.) |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
- |
5 |
||
|
Royal Army Dental Corps. (R.A.D.C.) |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
||
|
Royal Pioneer Corps (RPC) |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
||
|
Intelligence Corps. |
- |
- |
-- |
1 |
- |
2 |
1 |
1 |
- |
5 |
||
|
Army Catering Corps (ACC) |
2 |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
5 |
11 |
||
|
Q.A.R.A.N.C.& Q.A.I.M.N.S. |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
||
|
Womens Royal Army Corps (W.R.A.C.) |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
5 |
||
|
General List |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
||
|
Army Physical Training Corps |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
||
|
Royal Air Force |
119 |
42 |
2 |
46 |
3 |
2 |
20 |
35 |
22 |
291 |
||
|
Fed of Malaya Police (Total only see page 58) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
139 |
||
|
Commonwealth Forces (Total only page 63 ) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
159 |
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|
|
(Totals each Cemetery) |
353 |
68 |
27 |
356 |
53 |
90 |
53 |
197 |
94 |
1958 |
|
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Borneo Confrontation (Total Only see page 71) |
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+451 |
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Kranji War & Military Cemetery Singapore ,Graves Layout, Memorial &Gardens of Remembrance |
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Malay Regiment 1948-1957 Roll of Honour |
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Some History of the Malay Regiment |
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Map of East Malaysia & Indonesia During Confrontation 1962 – 1963 |
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Please Note:- Location for Cemeteries and graves for Gurkha Regiments can be found on pages 29-91,92,,97-109
Federation of Malaya police 58
Commonwealth Forces 63
All Forces Borneo Confrontation 71-72