Wang Ming, a.k.a. ‘Bear’, close friend of Ah Fat (q.v.)
Williams, Robert, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Officer, 1/12 Gurkha Rifles
Wong Kek Fui, Communist Hakka in Calcutta’s Chinatown
Xi Zhan Yang, secret Communist courier
Yerzin, Pavel Dmitrievich, Soviet handler in Delhi
Yusof Ali, Captain, HQ Kelantan Military District
Abbreviations
2 ic Second-in-Command
ADC aide de camp, personal staff officer to a senior officer
ADO Assistant District Officer
CO Commanding Officer, commander of major unit
CPO Chief Police Officer
CMP Corps of Military Police
CQMS Company Quartermaster Sergeant
CRW Communist Revolutionary Warfare
CSM Company Sergeant Major
CT Communist Terrorist/s, official name for guerrilla/s
DA Defence Attaché
DSO Distinguished Service Order, the second highest bravery award
FARELF Far East Land Forces
GHQ General Headquarters
GM Gurkha Major
GR Gurkha Rifles
HQ headquarters
ID identity
Int intelligence
KL Kuala Lumpur
MA Military Adviser
MCP Malayan Communist Party
MGB Soviet Ministry of State Security, Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Besopasnosti (1946-54)
MRLA Malayan Races Liberation Army
MT mechanical transport
NCO non-commissioned officer
OC Officer Commanding, commander of sub-unit
OCPD Officer in Charge Police District
‘O’ Group ‘Orders Group’, sub-commanders for whom any orders are relevant
Red Cap nickname for British Army police from the colour of their hats
RSM Regimental Sergeant Major
sitrep situation report
Signals jargon
roger understood
sunray commander of unit or sub-unit concerned
sunray minor deputy commander of unit or sub-unit concerned
Glossary
Chinese
I sincerely thank Mr Bernard C C Chan, MBE, AMN, for his unstinting help in matters Chinese.
char sui crispy roast pork belly
fei toh bandit
Goo K’a bing Gurkha soldiers
gwai lo foreigner, literally ‘devil chap’, ‘old devil’