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Object description
German trooper served with Malayan Scouts in Federation of Malaya, 1951; police officer served with Federation of Malaya Police in Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 1951-1954; civil servant with Sultan of Pahang in Federation of Malaya, 1954-1957
Content description
REEL 1 Aspects of period as NCO with British Army and as civilian in GB, 1945-1950: attitude to not receiving commission in army; use of staff car to visit demobilisation centre; employment in Hong Kong; employment as schoolmaster at Gordonstoun School. Recollections of period as trooper with Malayan Scouts in Federation of Malaya, 1951: background to volunteering for unit; opinion of Mike Calvert; reaction to Mike Calvert's request to march twenty five miles across Singapore Island; move to Dusuntara Camp; memories of Mike Calvert and his style of command.
REEL 2 Continues: tactics employed by insurgents in jungle; question of Mike Calvert's responsibility for Briggs Plan; Mike Calvert's methods of discipline at Dusuntara Camp; attitude towards achievements of Malayan Scouts in Federation of Malaya; medical problems and contracting Leptospirosis; drinking and eating in jungle; supplies in jungle; attitude to state of clothing; civilian population's attitude towards insurgents; attitude towards Sakai people; reasons for leaving Malayan Scouts.
REEL 3 Continues: changes in regiment after Mike Calvert left unit. Aspects of period as police officer with Federation of Malaya Police in Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 1951-1954: work with marine police controlling searchlights to prevent infiltration by insurgents over Straits of Johore; question of promotion in police force; relations with Malcolm MacDonald; decision to leave police force; his prosecution methods. Aspects of period as civil servant with Sultan of Pahang in Federation of Malaya, 1954-1957: dealing with Sultan's debts.
REEL 4 Continues: his working methods; method of dealing with villages that supplied food to insurgents; loss of employment after initial phase of Independence, 1957; difficulties of working for Sultan of Pahang.