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Auction: 9004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 1042

Four: Sergeant P. Langley, Royal Engineers, Later Hampshire Constabulary War Medal; General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Malaya, M.I.D. Oakleaf (14469283 Cpl. P. Langley. R.E.); Army Long Service & G.C., E.II.R., with ´Regular Army´ bar suspension (14469283 S. Sgt. P. Langley. RE.); Police Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (Const Phil Langley), generally nearly extremely fine, mounted court style as worn (4) Estimate £ 280-320 M.I.D. London Gazette 20.12.1957 14469283 Sgt. P. Langley, Corps of Royal Engineers ´´In recognition of gallant and distinguished conduct in operations in Malaya during the period ending on the 30th August, 1957.´´ Sergeant Phil Langley served with the Royal Engineers during the Malayan Emergency and in the period mentioned in by M.I.D., ´´as August - and independence - approached, more and more areas were cleared of CTs [Communist Terrorists]. In June Trengganu became the first all-White state. In July, with only a month to go to independence, not a single person killed by CTs for the first time since the start of the war. By now there were barely two thousand active CTs left; a thousand in the north, five hundred in Johore, the rest being scattered over the country in small groups. Now, finally, these forces were split when in early August the White corridor in Phang was extended through Selangor to include the Federal capital and stretched to the West Coast. Thus with a White belt cutting across the country, Chin Peng´´s forces in the north were completely isolated from those in the south. August 31, 1957, might be said to have started the final phase of the war, for this was the day on which, after eighty-three years of British rule, Malaya became a sovereign independent state.´´ (The War of the Running Dogs, The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960, N. Barber, refers); in later life Langley served with the Hampshire Constabulary.

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