This report in the New Straits Times report mentions only one of Gurney's killers. Here is the guy who eliminated at least two of them. A pistol and two Tommy guns, assorted ammunition and equipment were recovered from the dead Enemy.
Image: Sergeant Choo Woh Soon PGB, click on image to enlargeOne of the enemy who was killed was Ngow Lai , who was a Branch Committee Member of the Malayan Communist Party. Ngow Lai was involved in the ambush and the killing of the High Commissioner of Malaya, Sir Henry Gurney in 1951. He was also involved in the killing of Mrs. Nora Stutchbury, wife of the District Officer of Bentong. She was killed along the Kuala Lumpur –Bentong road. in 1950. The other two dead Enemies were Mo Sze Chuan and San Cheng. All were from the 6th Assault Unit.
In full about Sergeant Choo Woh Soon PGB.
IPOH: The many people who come to Gunung Lang, a famed recreational spot here, may be unaware that it was once a hideout for communist rebels because of its network of caves. It was here that Siu Mah, infamous for ambushing and killing British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney in Fraser's Hill in 1951, took shelter.
Image: Frank Heron (right) describing the events of Nov 10, 1958, when he was part of a mission by the British army to capture communist leader Siu Mah, the man who had assassinated Sir Henry Gurney seven years earlier. — NST picture by Ikhwan MunirIt was also here that Siu Mah's body was unceremoniously dumped from the top of a cliff after he was executed by his bodyguards.Following Gurney's death, the British administration placed a bounty of 15,000 Malayan dollars on Siu Mah's head. It was only in 1958, though, that the search for the communist leader would end.
Frank Heron, 72, remembers the time well. He arrived on Malayan shores in 1957 as a conscript in the 1st Battalion of the Loyal Regiment, based in Camp Colombo (now the Malaysian army's Second Brigade headquarters) in Ashby Road (Jalan Hospital).He was sent to the Kuala Kuang new village, about 15km from here, where he performed the duties of a bugler.
"On Nov 10, 1958, my commander, Lt-Col Thompson, instructed me and about 18 others to arm ourselves for an undisclosed mission. As we reached Gunung Lang, we we were told that we were to capture Siu Mah," he told the New Straits Times while on a trip down memory lane in Gunung Lang recently.Heron said that as the platoon was preparing to take on Siu Mah, nicknamed Little Horse, a gunshot rang out.
"Minutes later, two men came out from one of the caves and told us that they had killed the Little Horse. I offered a rope to bring down Siu Mah's body but they said it was not necessary."They went back inside the cave, came out with the body and, just like that, threw it down the cliff. The shot was right to the forehead." The event, said Heron, remained the most compelling memory of his two-year conscription in Malaya. It brought him back to the country 50 years after returning to his hometown in Lancashire, England.
Heron came to Gunung Lang to look at the spot where Siu Mah was killed, but development left the place unrecognisable to Heron and he was unable to locate the spot."But, I am not disheartened. This country has progressed so much since I left that I feel honoured to be back here now. "I can only hope that the younger generations will not forget this nation's struggle to be where it is now," he said, as he took a last look at the cliffs of Gunung Lang.
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