Here’s one that got caught up in the Canada Post strike and took two months to get to me. A lonely little General Service Medal with Malaya Bar impressed to 23334034 Pvt G. Birchall of the RAOC.
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An Ordnance Birchall in the Malaya Emergency
Posted in 1945 + Medals, Family Groups & Singles with tags Family Groups and Singles, Malaya, United Kingdom on January 9, 2025 by The DudeAnother Birchall in Malaya
Posted in 1945 + Medals, Family Groups & Singles with tags Family Groups and Singles, Malaya, Malaya Emergency, United Kingdom on June 4, 2018 by The DudeIt has been a good month for finding Birchalls on the intertubes. This GVI GSM is impressed to 23522812 PTE J.BIRCHALL RAOC. Because this is a GVI issue GSM, Private Birchall must have served early in the Emergency, prior to 1956. Interesting side note, it was called the Malayan Emergency because if it had been a war, then insurers would have been able to refuse claims for damage.
A Birchall in the Malaya Campaign
Posted in 1945 + Medals, Family Groups & Singles with tags Family Groups and Singles, Malaya, Malaya Emergency, United Kingdom on April 14, 2017 by The DudeIn my never-ending quest to find all the Birchall or similar named groups and singles on the internets, there is this example in the post this week. Named to 23416889 SIGMN.J.I.BIRCHELL R.SIGS., it is a EIIR General Service Medal with a bar for the Malayan campaign against the communist insurgency. This post-colonial bush war ran from 1948 to 1960 and was one of the few successful attempts to keep the communists out of S.E.Asia.
Cap Badge for the New Zealand Regiment
Posted in Cap Badges, Collar Dogs and Shoulder Titles with tags Malaya, New Zealand on June 7, 2013 by The Dude
The New Zealand Regiment was formed in 1957. The infantry has always been the heart of the New Zealand Army and the New Zealnd Regiment was raised as an organisational formation to support the deployment of New Zealand soldiers in Malaya during the Emergency there. It was reformed and renamed in 1964 as NZ withdrew from Malaya and began the deployment into Vietnam.
A Birchall in the Malayan Emergency
Posted in 1945 + Medals, Family Groups & Singles with tags Family Groups and Singles, Malaya, Malaya Emergency, United Kingdom on April 22, 2013 by The DudeThis is a EIIR GSM with a Malaya Bar marked to 22670124 A.Birchall R.A.M.C.
Kiwi Medals 