General Service Medal (Clasp – Malaya) – Gdsm. A.W. Knapp, 2nd Bn. Scots Guards
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Regiment: Scots Guards
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A GSM (Malaya) awarded to 22026868 Guardsman A.W. Knapp, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, who served in Malaya during the infamous ‘Batang Kali Massacre’.
General Service Medal (Clasp – Malaya) named to 22026868 Gdsm. A.W. Knapp. S.G.
The medal is in good condition and comes with original box of issue, award slip and registered envelope.
The 2nd Battalion Scots Guards suffered a damage to their honour and reputation in Malaya and the years that followed. A Platoon of the battalion, brought disgrace to the regiment the and stained the reputation of the British Army, for their massacre of unarmed ethnic Chinese civilians at Batang Kali.
The military establishment and colonial governments attempts to cover-up and deflect from this appalling war crime, remain as as a black chapter in what was an otherwise a successful counter-insurgency campaign.
Newspaper reports in December 1948 differ in option as to whom wrote the articles. Two report a successful patrol at the killing, as reported in The Scotsman Monday 13 December 1948. The other also from December 1948 describes the incident in a different way.
Newspaper reports again hit the headlines in 1969/70 when one of the soldiers went to the papers.
The Metropolitan police were tasked with the investigation by the DPP in March 1970 but was pulled by the Attorney General in June 1970 with the change of Government. See part of the Met CID police report pictured.
The Evening Express on Thursday September 10th 1992, refers to the BBC program In Cold Blood, where ex Major Campbell Graham SG dismisses the program and incident as lies.
More on this incident which happened at the time Guardsman Knapp was in Malaya with the 2nd Battalion can be found in the newspapers and through internet searches.
Comes with some copied research, newpapers articles and information on the Batang Kali Massacre.
Regiment: Scots Guards
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