| Penang Ambush | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Malayan Emergency | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Unknown |
 Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| unknown | unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
8 killed 6 wounded Total: 14 casualties | 1 wounded | ||||||
| Background | |
|---|---|
| Battles | 1948
1950 1951 1954 1956 |
| Foreign involvement | |
| |
The Penang ambush was an incident that took place during the Malayan Emergency. Communists ambushed Malayan and British police and killed eight of them, including a British police sergeant.[1]
References
- ↑ "GUERILLAS LOSE 22 IN JUNGLE BATTLE". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 23 January 1950. p. 1. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
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