This is the story of the Australian Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB) and its long fight formally since 2006 with our own Australian Government over recognition for warlike service. The RCB served during the Communist Insurgency in Malaysia (1968-1989 -aka Second Malaysian Emergency) in Butterworth Air Force Base in Northern Malaysia between the years 1970 to 1989.
The Australian Government and the Defence Department have been trying to suppress the historical record for over 50 years. The RCB veterans are having none of it.
If you are interested in the twists and turns of Australian foreign policy during the Cold War years, tune in to the Forgotten Diggers podcast and learn how the Australian Public was deceived back then, and still are to this day.
Duty First
Sean Arthur
Retired Intelligence Analyst
Ex-Private Soldier – Rifleman
1 RAR & 8/9 RAR
RCB – B Company 1 RAR Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
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