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| MPAJA Cap Badge as used by Canadian SOE agents |
The Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a guerrilla army founded in 1942. It was formed to counter the Japanese occupation of Malaya. The British military, foreseeing a Japanese invasion, trained small groups of Malayans as guerrilla troops; these became the MPAJA. Men would be loaned to the British for S.O.E. to Force 136. Beginning in 1943, Force 136 sent agents and supplies, first by submarine and later by air drops. Cap badge for the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army, which was formed in 1941 from members of the Malayan Communist Party to organise resistance against the Japanese occupation forces.
The cap badge came in three types: cast brass, cast silver (with red or black highlights), and cast brass with black highlights (like this example). This last type was used the Chinese-speaking Canadian SOE agents that were sent into Malaya in from India in 1943.
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| Reverse of badge showing crude sand casting |
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| Reverse showing hand filled finish to edges |
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ReplyDeletemy dear admin, i would like to post this article to my fb for educational use, not all knew very much about MPAJA during ww2. And my forefather used to be MPAJA guerilla during japanese occupation
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