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BarryF
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 2721
Location: Berkshire, United Kingdom
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A Timely Reminder
We are delighted to have received a number of messages of support from Malaysia.
Here is one that arrived this morning:
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Fight4thePJM Web Site <web@fight4thepjm.org>
26/11/2006 00:31
To: pjmwebmaster@fight4thepjm.org
cc
Subject: Fight4thePJM Web site contact
Dear Sir,
As a Malaysian citizen I want to thank everyone who served in Malaysia for their service and sacrifice, no matter where they came from.
Thank you.
Nicholas Gomez
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Mr Gomez, thank you for your message of support. I understand what you are saying - in acknowledging the service of PJMers, Malaysian people do not discriminate as between "the communion of nations".
Neither should the British Government - they could learn much from your approach.
Terima Kasih.
Barry
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'Jock' Fenton
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 1222
Location: Ontario, Canada
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General Sir Roger Wheeler...
See story at:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/23/nation/20070223185505&sec=nation
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Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.
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'Jock' Fenton
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 1222
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Article in Kent News...
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John Cooper
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 2158
Location: Suffolk
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I wonder if it might be a timely reminder to inform The Star and perhaps The Straits Times regarding the news of the LG Announcement, perhaps the Malaysian public might be unaware of the Queens decision nearly 40 years ago........
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:32 am |
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GLOman
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 668
Location: Northamptonshire
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London Gazette 03-05-68
John,
What a good idea. It might cause the Malaysian Govt. to pose some
awkward questions, firstly to the British High Commissioner, and then,
perhaps to the Foreign and Commonwealth from MHC. It could be the
push we need to send 'em running for cover!
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:13 am |
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John Cooper
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 2158
Location: Suffolk
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Any volunteers then? Instead of the usual crew someone with a new pen might stoke some interest, we have the 50th Anniversary of Merdeka in just about 5 months, we must let our friends in Malaysia know what is going on.
One pace forward...........
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:21 am |
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Kentsboro
Joined: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 431
Location: Hampshire
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Newspapers in Malaysia
I would be more than willing to do that John - just need their address and I'm on the case.
Tony.
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GLOman
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 668
Location: Northamptonshire
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Newspapers in Malaysia
This "letter" to the editor has just gone!
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John Cooper
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 2158
Location: Suffolk
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David
That is a belter, thank you so much, we know you guys do a lot of work behind the scenes, which is much appreciated, lobbying, writing, telephoning, spreading the word etc and I'm just glad that we share the same side!
I cannot think that the suits will ever 'about turn', I was always optimistic about the outcome, as you have to live in hope, but being realistic we now know they have stood their ground. that is their prerogative, they have (apparently) got it wrong.
We will soldier on ...........
JohnC
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:58 pm |
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Kentsboro
Joined: 11 Oct 2006
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Location: Hampshire
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Newspapers in Malaysia
Have just finished to for the Straits Times - including a photocopy of the London Gazette entry.
Tony
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John Cooper
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
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Location: Suffolk
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Great stuff, Tony, thank you very much!
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BarryF
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
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Location: Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Re: Newspapers in Malaysia
Kentsboro wrote:Have just finished to for the Straits Times - including a photocopy of the London Gazette entry.
Tony
Thanks Tony,
I was going to do it but was 'bogged' down with some IA's (remember those?) on the Bren Gun situation. I had tried to turn up the 'air' by sticking a round in the thingymebob and turning it to a larger hole but that didn't seem to work. So I've just reloaded the magazine, changed barrels, and taken the end result to the post office whence it will be fired off.
Barry
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MB
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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Straits Times by all means....but.
Barry.
With regard to the Bren you are talking about stoppages. Knew them all once but I was only a NS soldier. Must have learnt them in a previous life. Did the bren really survive into the 60s? The FN rifle came through to front line troops in the 56-57 era in Malaya. I was shown how to use one by an SAS trooper but was never trusted with anything better than a 303 jungle carbine, and better still, a Greener pump action shotgun, I think. I certainly remember being sent out to play once with a shotgun, and on my belt a bayonet for a jungle carbine. The bayonet was very useful.
The Malay Straits should do the trick in the far east. It was also very good for scrunching up and stuffing into wet and smelly jungle boots in the days when journalism had a real purpose. No offence to to anyone, then or now. MB.
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BarryF
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 2721
Location: Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Re: Straits Times by all means....but.
MB wrote:With regard to the Bren you are talking about stoppages.
Yes I was. It certainly survived into the 60's to be replaced by the GPMG. When I first joined the Paras in the early 60's I was a No. 1 on the Bren and had the privilege of carrying it around assault courses and during airborne exercises. On jumps, I carried my Bren between my teeth, leaving space in my container for essential equipment for the 'cross country' that inevitably followed a successful descent ... a couple of cases of Claret, corkscrew, picnic table and chairs, change of clothes to include a DJ 'just in case', and so on. Happy days. I 'remember' them well ... !
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IvorJ
Joined: 15 Feb 2006
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Location: Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
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The bren gun was alive and well in the RN 63/64. I manned the bren gun on patrols to Kuching and in the Malacca straits. It was used to cover short range situations such as boat searches and sniper fire from the river bank. As a marksman I had a fondness for the bren as a very accurate weapon in its day.
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