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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 322

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (19048244 Tpr. R. Jeffrey. 4H.), very fine

The 4th Queen's Own Hussars sailed for Singapore in August 1948. The Regiment’s primary role was to keep open the roads and major tracks for the free passage of both civilian and military traffic, and to that end squadrons stationed at Raub, Taiping, Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan commanded more widely dispersed troops. In late 1949 the 4th Hussars were ordered to send a squadron to Hong Kong to bolster the military strength in the colony as its regular garrison became depleted by the need to send infantry battalions to the war in Korea.

New tactics for dealing with jungle bandits were worked out with considerable success and a special establishment of four squadrons, adding one from within the Regiment, was adopted.

During the tour of Malaya, the 4th Hussars lost one officer and twenty-one other ranks killed in action or died, and four officers and twenty-eight other ranks were wounded. They were famously ambushed on 31 December 1948 at Sungei Siput, Ipoh.

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