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A HISTORY LESSON THE FIRST BATCH DID NOT GET
20
ONE
24. ibid.
25. Mindef records.
26. The Singapore Armed Forces, 1981, p. 41
27. History of 2 SIR, 1987, p. 7
28. Based on a tote of data from Our Security, Winsley, The Singapore Armed Forces and Huxley.
29. Lim 1992, p. 24
30. Interview with MAJ (RET) R.V. Simon, RSN, 29
th
March, 2005.
31. Huxley 2000, p. 5
32. Mindef records
33. Huxley 2000, p. 6
34. The Singapore Armed Forces, 1981, p. 42
35. Interview with MAJ (RET) S. Muthucumaru, SO3 Training/Territorial Army, HQ 4 MIB, Fort Canning,
2
nd
October, 2003.
36. The Singapore Armed Forces, 1981, p. 38
37. Singapore Year Book 1964, p. 180
38. On 30
th
September, 1965, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), attempted to take over openly by
eliminating the key military commanders opposed to it. Forty-four year old Major General Mohammed
Suharto, Commander of Kostrad, the Army Strategic Reserves, (Komando Strategis Angkatan Darat) counter-
attacked to smash the coup. Many communist sympathisers were rounded up and either executed summarily
or incarcerated indefinitely. In the aftermath of the failed coup, General Suharto eventually took over as
President and subsequently ended the Konfrantasi campaign.
39. Singapore Year Book 1966, p.7; Huxley 2000, p. 7
40. Murfett, et. al. p. 316
41. ibid., p. 323
42. ibid., p. 324
43. ibid., p. 326
44. The 42
nd
Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment, took over the historic Selarang Barracks, which General
Yamashita had used temporarily as an operational HQ (as well as a POW detention centre), from 6 RAR.