He spent a short amount of time serving abroad in Malaysia and Singapore, a deployment connected with the "Malayan Emergency".
In 1948, the Communists and the British colonial government in Malaya entered a period of guerrilla fighting which has become known to history as the Malayan Emergency.
The play is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a mostly gay British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaysia in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency.
The Komuter station is named after the town of Tiroi, and is essentially a replacement of the old Tiroi station destroyed by communists during the 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency.
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8 January - Sabak Bernam declared as a white area (free from the communist insurgency) during the Malayan Emergency
Briggs' Plan was a military plan devised by British General Sir Harold Briggs shortly after his appointment in 1950 as Director of Operations in the anti-communist war in Malaya.
On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.
After suppressing the communist insurrection during the Malayan Emergency from 1948 to 1960, Britain granted independence to Malaya and later, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak in 1957 and 1963 respectively within the framework of the Federation of Malaysia.
When the British High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray met with the Tunku, Ismail, and the MCA's representative of H. S. Lee, he accused them of playing into the hands of the Malayan Communist Party, which was waging an armed insurgency against the British.
On 6 October 1951, Sir Henry Gurney a British High Commissioner in Malaya was shot to death at this road on his way back to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.
After World War II and during the Malayan Emergency, the number of battalions was increased to 7 in the early 1950s.