Padamsing (Padam) Rai, member of All-India Gorkha League and Sergeant, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles [Note: this is not the real name of the historical person your author knew]
Pahalman Rai, Rifleman, 1/10 Gurkha Rifles
Sharkey, Lawrence (’Lance’), Secretary General of the Australian Communist Party
Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin’s daughter
Taylor, Grant, Federal Bureau of Investigation officer during prohibition in USA
Templer, Sir Gerald, General, High Commissioner and Direcor of Operations, Malaya
Too Chee Chew (‘C C Too’) brilliant propagandist, Special Branch, Malayan Police
Ulyanov, Vladamir Ilych, a.k.a. Lenin, Soviet revolutionary saint
Westerong, Raymond, Dutch officer with Dutch ‘Shock Troops’
Wilhelmina ,Queen of the Netherlands
Yap Piow, Commander 7 Company, Malayan Races Liberation Army
Yerzin, Pavel Dmitrevch, Soviet handler for Sharkey (q.v.)
Zdhanov, Andrei A, Colonel General, Russian theoretician
Names either born in the author’s imagination or changed to avoid family embarrassment:
Ah Fat, police ‘mole’ and non-voting Central Committee member, Malayan Communist Party
Ah Ho, pseudonym of Xi Zhan Yang, secret Communist courier (q.v.)
Akbar Salleh, Indonesian delegate at Calcutta conference
Atmaji Anugerah, Indonesian delegate at Calcutta conference
Basnet, Mansing, Nepalese Vice Consul in Rangoon
‘Bear’, Hung Lo, nickname of Wang Ming, (q.v.)
Bugga, Vikas, Indian Communist agent
Chan Man Yee, Malayan Communist Party ‘mole’ in Police HQ, Kuala Lumpur
Cheng Fan Tek, grocer in Taiping
Chen Geng, Communist in Singapore
Dutt, Anil, Indian Communist
Hemlal Rai, Gurkha Captain, Chief Clerk, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Heron, James, Lieutenant Colonel, Defence Attaché, Rangoon
Hinlea, Alan, Captain, turncoat officer in 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Hutchinson, Mr, Warrant Officer, Class 1, Movement Control.
Hutton, Reggie, Special Branch officer, Singapore
Jaslal Rai, Sergeant, 1/10 Gurkha Rifles
Jones, Peter, manager of Everton Estate
Kamal Rai, worker on Bhutan Estate
Kulbahadur Limbu, Rifleman, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Lam Wai Lim, Captain of SS Eastern Queen
Lau Beng, Negri Sembilan Regional Commissar
Law Chu Hoi, Purser of SS Eastern Queen
Lee Kheng Kwoh, member of the Chinese Security Service, Kwok Ka On Chuin Bo
May, Dougie, Major, Officer Commanding Gurkha Transit Camp, Barrackpore
McGurk, James, Major, Reserve Officer attached to 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Mole, Rodney, Officer in charge Police District
Oli, Dhruba Kumar, Nepalese consul in Rangoon
O’Neal, Peter, Major, Second-in-Command, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Pahalsing Gurung, Gurkha Lieutenant, 1 Platoon Commander, A Company, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
P’ing Yee, Flat Ears, nickname of Ah Fat (q.v.)
Rance, Jason Percival Vere, Captain, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles,
Shandung P’aau, Shandong Cannon, nickname of Jason Rance (q.v.)
Sim Ting Ong, Secretary General of the Sarawak United People’s Party
Sobolev, Leonid Pavlovich, Soviet ‘Rezident’, Calcutta
Tsarkov, Dmitry, a member of the Soviet consulate, Calcutta