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  • Southern Rhodesian military involvement in the Malayan Emergency
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  • Of the hundreds of Southern Rhodesians who served in Malaya, eight were killed. "C" Squadron, which was formed especially to serve in Malaya, was the first SAS unit from a British colony or dominion. Several veterans of the conflict, Peter Walls and Ron Reid-Daly among them, subsequently held key positions in the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s.
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  • (Lt-Col Frank Fitzgerald, RhAR second-in-command in Malaya, 1957)
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  • Our African soldiers are ideally suited to jungle warfare ... far superior to the British and Ghurkha troops.
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  • Of the hundreds of Southern Rhodesians who served in Malaya, eight were killed. "C" Squadron, which was formed especially to serve in Malaya, was the first SAS unit from a British colony or dominion. Several veterans of the conflict, Peter Walls and Ron Reid-Daly among them, subsequently held key positions in the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s.
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