Korea/NGS Group of 3 To Royal Marines

Korea medal RM7372 M HULME MNE RM UN Kore NGS bar Malaya ( Geo VI ) RM7372 M HULME MNE RM

Together with original full certificate of service contained in original card cover , certificate of discharge , RFR discharge certificate (2) Registration card , RN Football Association referees certificate , RM certificate of education, British Forces identity certificate

Certificate of service confirms Mne Hulme served in the Royal marines from 1948 till 1955 , he was aboard HMS Theseus for the Korean war and with 40 Commando 3rd Commando Brigade Royal Marines from November 1951 till May 1954 which would cover his service in Malaya

Malayan Emergency

British Malayan headhunting scandal

Marines of the 40 Commandos caused a media scandal when photographs were leaked to the public showing their marines posing with the severed heads of pro-independence guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency. This was a common practice employed by the British during the war and was often conducted by Iban headhunters from Borneo hired by the British military.

In April 1952, British left-wing newspaper The Daily Worker (today known as the Morning Star) published a photograph depicting soldiers inside a 40 Commando base near Kuala Kangsar holding the severed head of a suspected pro-independence fighter belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).An Admiralty spokesman subsequently claimed that the photographs were a forgery and a "communist trick", though Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton later confirmed to Parliament that they were genuine. Lyttelton came to the defence of the Commando, noting that the decapitations had been conducted by an Iban headhunter from Borneo hired by the British army, and not the Marines themselves


Medals mounted on wearing pin as originally worn

Code: 51167