Members of the British 15/19 Hussars Cavalry Regiment on top of their Daimler armoured cars ...

Accession Number HOB/56/0274/MC
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
Maker Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made Malaya: Kedah
Date made January 1956
Conflict Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of the British 15/19 Hussars Cavalry Regiment on top of their Daimler armoured cars (background) and Alvis Saracen, Armoured Personnel Carrier (foreground), stand by ready to escort the gunners and QF 25 Pounder guns of B Troop, 105th Field Battery, to their new rendezvous point, where they will strike their first blow against Communist terrorists. The Trooper (foreground) is holding a Sten gun.

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