Melaka, Malaysia, Great War commemorations

[bushfighter]

This interesting wooden commemoration box is in Christ Church, Melaka.

Harry

[neutrino]

Do you live in Malaysia Harry or are you just travelling around the country.

We live in Singapore for 6 months of every year and often go up to Malacca and Penang.

I can't recall that plaque in Christ Church though I'll have another look when we are up there again sometime before Christmas.

Maybe there should be a Singapore, Malaysia and Burma sub Forum

[bushfighter]

Thanks - I'm just travelling.

There definitely should be a Far East sub-Forum.

Harry

[neutrino]

Wow that's a lot of travelling.

Do you fly use the bus, train or car?

I want to get up to Ipoh, Taiping etc just to have a look around the area which had so much activity during the early days of WWII

I'm not sure what was happening during WWI in Malaya, Burma etc.

[bushfighter]

Train is (for myself) by far the best, most comfortable and cheapest travel option in Peninsular Malaya.

(In Borneo the only suitable means is plane, and then ferryboat to Labuan island.)

The major Great War incidents in Malaya were the Emden's successful attack on Penang Harbour, and the Singapore Mutiny.

There was also internal security unrest, but I don't yet know if that was triggered by German-sponsored Indian nationalists.

There was also unrest in Burma and British Territorials were deployed there.

Harry

[neutrino]

In Sarawak and Sabah these days car is a possibility and if not then Express boat on a river.

Brunei is fine although there's really only the coast road.

Can't say about Kalimantan as I haven't been there.

Were the problems in Surabaya (Java) at the end of WWI or WWII?

[James A Pratt III]

Java being Dutch was quite at the end of WW I. At the end of WW II it was not the Japanese overan the island and were still in control on VJ day. There was some heavy fighting after that between the locals and the British and Dutch.