British, Commonwealth and Gurkha Units that
participated in the Malayan Emergency

This is a list some the Army and Royal Marine units that served in the Malayan Emergency. As usual, information is hard to come by. Please e-mail the Web masters if you find your unit is not mentioned below. We wish to get the facts correct.

Infantry:

1st King's Dragoon Guards
4th Queen's Own Hussars
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales)
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
15th/19th The King's Royal hussars
3rd Grenadier Guards
2nd Coldstream Guards
2nd Scots Guards
1st Battalion The Queen's Own Regiment (West Surrey)
1st Battalion The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Battalion The Devonshire Regiment
1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment
1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
1st Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales Own)
1st Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
1st Battalion The Green Howards (Alexandria, Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment)
1st Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers
1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers   1954-1957
1st Battalion The South Wales Regiment
1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment
1st Battalion The Royal Hampshire Regiment
1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
1st Battalion 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
1st Battalion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
1st Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1st Battalion The Kings Own Scottish Borderers August 55 - August 58
1st Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment
1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders
The Independent Parachute Squadron
1st/2nd King Edwards VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
2nd/2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles
1st/6th Queen Elizabeth's Own gurkha Rifles
1st/7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
1st/10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
2nd/10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
22 Special Air Service Regiment
1st Battalion The King's African Rifles
3rd Battalion The King's African Rifles
1st Battalion The Northern Rhodesia Regiment
1st Battalion The Fiji Regiment
1st Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
2nd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
The Rhodesia Squadron SAS
The New Zealand Squadron SAS
1st Singapore Infantry Regiment
1st Battalion The New Zealand Regiment
2nd Battalion The New Zealand Regiment

Artillery:

2nd Field Regiment
25th Field Regiment
26th Field Regiment
48th Field Regiment
1st Singapore Regiment
100 Field Battery RAA
101 Field Battery RAA
105 Field Battery RAA

Royal Engineers:

11 Independent Field Squadron
50 Gurkha Field Engineer Regiment
51 Field Engineer Regiment
74 Field Park Squadron
410 Independent Plant Troop

Signals:

17th (Gurkha) Signal Regiment
208 (Commonwealth) Signal Squadron
Malaya Command Signals Squadron

Royal Marines:

40 Commando
42 Commando
45 Commando

Other Units

Army Catering Corps
Corps of Royal Military Police
Royal Army Chaplins Department
Royal Army Educational Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Army Pay Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Service Corps
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Queen Alexandria's Royal Army Nursing Corps