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Cap Badge Of The Royal Scots Fusiliers

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Subject :Cap Badge of The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Published By : None 
Location : Ipoh, Perak
Estimated Year : 1954
Media Type : Artifact
Source : Eddie Teo, Ipoh
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The Royal Scots Fusiliers badge is described as:

A large gilding metal badge in the form of a fused (or 'flaming') grenade. On the ball of the grenade is the Royal Arms surmounted by the Royal Crest with Imperial (King's) crown. On the Royal Arms is the inscription 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (the motto of the Order of the Garter) and below the Arms the inscription 'DIEU ET MON DROIT'. There are two lugs to reverse. The badge was in use from 1901 until 1959. 

The Royal Scots Fusiliers fought in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency.

They sailed out from UK on the troop ship 'Austorius' in 1954, landed at Singapore, and trained in jungle warfare school at Kota Tinggi in Johor. When they went to jungle school at Kota Tinggi, they were taught how to survive in the jungle. They learned to build 'bashers' to live in, what was edible, what was not, where to find drinking water, how to sterilize it, how to fight, to survive. It was a tough introduction to Malaya and they use varied assortment of weapons; rifles shotguns, machine guns, knives, the garrotte, the parang, using the hands to kill, and the killing points. Then there was an introduction to booby traps, and jungle tracking. At the end of this gruelling stint they were ready to meet the Communists in their own territory’

After Kota Tinggi, they were then sent to different locations mostly around Perak.

The first picture is a scan of an article regarding the closure of Kota Tinggi Warfare School, experienced by the Fusiliers in 1954, - entitled "British Give Up Last Malaysian Base". Click the pdf link below to read this article.

To Read About the Royal Scots Fusiliers in Ipoh, click here.

  1. To read this ipohWorld original e-Book, click here. (e-Book 1 in pdf format)
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