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2/3 The #Japanese intended to capture #Kampar as a New Year’s gift to #EmperorHirohito as the fierce battle began on Dec 30, 1941 to Jan 2, 1942 They hadn’t reckoned with the tenacious fighting and bravery of the #BritishBatalion 🫡 East Surreys - #CaptainVickers, #EastSurreys, in D Company, led several counter-attacks at the point of the bayonet from #GreenRidge and #ThompsonRidge, supported by Sergeant Craggs. Captain Vickers was awarded an immediate MC, Sergeant Craggs a DCM and Private Graves, the company runner, the MM. Lieutenant Colonel Morrison had permeated it with an esprit de corps second to none, his constant personal gallantry in this and subsequent battles was so marked that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Leicesters - The ferocity and confusion of the close-quarter fighting around the British Battalion was especially violent in the forward positions. Lieutenant Edgar Newland, commanding a platoon of 30 Leicesters, held the most forward position of the battalion. His platoon was surrounded and cut off for most of the battle but Newland and his men fought off all attacks and kept hold of their isolated position throughout the two days. For his actions Newland later received the Military Cross. Jat-Punjab Battalion - During the two-day battle Japanese troops managed to capture trenches on the eastern sector of Thompson Ridge. After two counter-attacks by D Company of the British Battalion and a third by the Jat-Punjab Battalion failed, a reserve mixed company of 60 Sikhs and Gujars from the Jat-Punjab Battalion was brought in to attempt to retake the trenches. This half company under the command of Captain John Onslow Graham and Lieutenant Charles Douglas Lamb (both officers were from 1/8th Punjab) fixed bayonets and charged the Japanese position. The Japanese fire was so heavy that 33 men, including Lamb, were killed in the charge. Graham continued to lead the attack after being wounded and only stopped when a grenade mangled both his legs beneath the knees. Nevertheless, he continued to shout encouragement to his men and was seen throwing grenades at the Japanese trenches. Altogether 34 Indians died in the attack but they retook the position. Graham was rushed to the army hospital at Tanjung Malim where he died of his wounds a day later and was subsequently Mentioned in Dispatches for his actions on Thompson Ridge. The Gurkhas also fought an important battle with 28th Gurkha Brigade's position on the right flank near the town of Sahum with a battalion from Watanabe's 11th Regiment and they fought well but my focus is on the strategically important ridges. The battle of Kampar only ended after the British were outflanked by the Japanese with troop landings at Telok Anson. Kampar was a tactical victory for the British and Empire forces. Such were the Japanese losses that the 41st Infantry Regiment was unable to participate in the later invasion of Singapore. The fighting on the ridges of the jungle canopy of mount Gunung Bujang Melaka must have been harrowing 🤔 (Green Ridge Trench below)

MalayaSingapore's tweet photo. 2/3 The #Japanese intended to capture #Kampar as a New Year’s gift to #EmperorHirohito as the fierce battle began on Dec 30, 1941 to Jan 2, 1942
They hadn’t reckoned with the tenacious fighting and bravery of the #BritishBatalion 🫡

East Surreys -
#CaptainVickers, #EastSurreys, in D Company, led several counter-attacks at the point of the bayonet from #GreenRidge and #ThompsonRidge, supported by Sergeant Craggs.
Captain Vickers was awarded an immediate MC, Sergeant Craggs a DCM and Private Graves, the company runner, the MM.
Lieutenant Colonel Morrison had permeated it with an esprit de corps second to none, his constant personal gallantry in this and subsequent battles was so marked that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

Leicesters -
The ferocity and confusion of the close-quarter fighting around the British Battalion was especially violent in the forward positions. Lieutenant Edgar Newland, commanding a platoon of 30 Leicesters, held the most forward position of the battalion. His platoon was surrounded and cut off for most of the battle but Newland and his men fought off all attacks and kept hold of their isolated position throughout the two days. For his actions Newland later received the Military Cross.

Jat-Punjab Battalion -
During the two-day battle Japanese troops managed to capture trenches on the eastern sector of Thompson Ridge.
After two counter-attacks by D Company of the British Battalion and a third by the Jat-Punjab Battalion failed, a reserve mixed company of 60 Sikhs and Gujars from the Jat-Punjab Battalion was brought in to attempt to retake the trenches. This half company under the command of Captain John Onslow Graham and Lieutenant Charles Douglas Lamb (both officers were from 1/8th Punjab) fixed bayonets and charged the Japanese position. The Japanese fire was so heavy that 33 men, including Lamb, were killed in the charge. Graham continued to lead the attack after being wounded and only stopped when a grenade mangled both his legs beneath the knees. Nevertheless, he continued to shout encouragement to his men and was seen throwing grenades at the Japanese trenches. Altogether 34 Indians died in the attack but they retook the position. Graham was rushed to the army hospital at Tanjung Malim where he died of his wounds a day later and was subsequently Mentioned in Dispatches for his actions on Thompson Ridge.

The Gurkhas also fought an important battle with 28th Gurkha Brigade's position on the right flank near the town of Sahum with a battalion from Watanabe's 11th Regiment and they fought well but my focus is on the strategically important ridges.

The battle of Kampar only ended after the British were outflanked by the Japanese with troop landings at Telok Anson.

Kampar was a tactical victory for the British and Empire forces.
Such were the Japanese losses that the 41st Infantry Regiment was unable to participate in the later invasion of Singapore.

The fighting on the ridges of the jungle canopy of mount Gunung Bujang Melaka must have been harrowing 🤔
(Green Ridge Trench below)

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