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This photograph from the Museum archives shows HRH The
Duke of Edinburgh inspecting members of I Company, 1st
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (1 RB), at Wardieburn Camp,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, on 1 November 1956.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh inspecting I Company 1 RB at Wardieburn Camp on
1 November 1956.
Background
On 11 June 1956 1 RB, under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel P.A.D. Boden MC, arrived at Singapore
from Kenya on board the troopship Dilwara for an
operational tour countering communist terrorism in
Malaya.
On 1 November 1956 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was on an
official visit to Kuala Lumpur. B Company 1 RB was
ordered to provide a guard of honour for his departure
but, because of riots in Singapore, his programme was
changed. Instead, a visit to Wardieburn Camp was
arranged at short notice.
The Duke arrived at the camp by helicopter and began his
visit by inspecting a joint guard of honour found by B
Company and the 2nd/6th Gurkha Rifles. He then inspected
a jungle patrol from I Company and another from 22
Special Air Service Regiment. As he left the parade
ground he met and talked with a number of army families
including several wives and children of warrant officers
and senior NCOs in the Battalion. Although the Duke’s
visit was brief it was deemed very successful.
1 RB returned to UK in November 1957 on completion of
the Battalion’s operational tour in Malaya.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh talking to army families.
Corporal Baker, 1 RB, in command of a Ferret scout car
at Wardieburn Camp.
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