ENEMY
STATISTICS 1948-60 MALAYAN EMERGENCY
(COMMUNIST
TERRORIST FORCES)
Year
Strength KIA
WIA POW
SEP Loss
Ratio
1948 2300
374 unk
263 56
30.1%
1949 2550
619 unk
337 251 47.3%
1950 3923
648 unk
147 147
24.0%
1951 7292
1079 649
121 201
28.1%
1952
5765 1155
596 123
257 36.9%
1953 4373
959 291
73 372
38.7%
1954 3402
723 212
51 211
53.1%
1955 2798
420 161
54 249
31.5%
1956 2566
307 115
52 134
23.6%
1957 2066
240 59
32 209
26.1%
1958 868
153 33
22 502
81.7%
1959 704
21 04
08 86
16.9%
1960 623
12 unk
03 27
06.7%
Footnote:
1948
& 1960 figures are 1/2 year only: figures for the Min Yuen underground not
given but believed 75000 in 1960: highest & lowest success years 1951 &
1958: highest & lowest numerical losses 2131 (1952) & 119 (1959):
highest & lowest per Capita losses 1958 & 1959: the main ‘struggle’
years 1952-58: State with most intense activities Johore: State with most
consistent activity Perak: with South Thailand additions the CT numbered over
1000 before the end of 1960. Collation
and analysis A L Bacskai.
A
L (Paddy) Bacskai
NMBVAA
WA Branch (Whitfords)
1st February, 2001
PROFILE
OF AUSTRALIAN POW DEATHS WHILST IN JAPANESE HANDS:
(21649
CAPTURED)
Thailand
- 2336
Burma
- 479
Borneo
- 1783 ***
Ambon
- 718 ***
Malaya/Singapore
- 284
New
Britain
- 200 ***
Japan/Other
- 462 **
POW
Lost At Sea
- 1515
TOTAL
OFFICIAL DEATHS
- 7777 *
***
Near full compliments.
**
123 POW Offr deaths.
*
Approximate 500 executed.
Ed comments ... based on figures from the Qld POW Repatriation Report 1990. A l Bacskai CD