1st Royal Malay Regiment Guards the British Queen

• siowkia

  5 May 08, 12:37

  120 soldiers of the Royal Malay Regiment have become the first all-Islamic Company to provide a British monarch's ceremonial guard.

  http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/FirstMuslimBattalionGuardsTheQueen.htm

  

  

• siowkia

  5 May 08, 13:04

  when is singapore going to send her soldiers to guards the queen? :)
• White_SoulReaper

  5 May 08, 13:06

  why so loyal to the british queen?

• alwaysdisturbed

  5 May 08, 13:08

  Originally posted by siowkia:

  when is singapore going to send her soldiers to guards the queen?

  what for?

• siowkia

  5 May 08, 13:09

  Malaysia is only the fourth Commonwealth nation, after Canada, Australia and Jamaica, to be honoured and invited by the UK in performing Public Duties in England. UK dont want to invites Singapore Army?
• BadzMaro

  5 May 08, 13:13

  MY Boleh!

   

• BadzMaro

  5 May 08, 13:16

  SaF will have the honour of guarding LKY.

• Fatum

  5 May 08, 13:16

  Originally posted by siowkia:

  Malaysia is only the fourth Commonwealth nation, after Canada, Australia and Jamaica, to be honoured and invited by the UK in performing Public Duties in England.

  UK dont want to invites Singapore Army?

  for fark ? .... waste money on parades and wayang .... 

  3 weeks means a lot of field exercises you know ....

   

• alwaysdisturbed

  5 May 08, 13:28

  Originally posted by BadzMaro:

  SaF will have the honour of guarding LKY.

  he doesn't even want saf to guard him.

• wonderamazement

  5 May 08, 14:17

  SAF MP turnout not tokkong i guess.

• arball

  5 May 08, 16:11

   a bit weird to have an SAF MP standing outside buckingham right?... might turn out to be a bit of an eyesore...

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  anws, point of curios, are the guards issued with live rounds?

  (the malays are unarmed!)
  edit: theyre holding m16s right?....silver edition!

• edwin3060

  5 May 08, 16:33

  It is part of Britain's PR of being nice to muslims I guess.

• arball

  5 May 08, 21:24

  agreed....

• Arapahoe

  6 May 08, 02:18

  Public Relation affair lah.

• Arapahoe

  6 May 08, 07:03

  you can also say a relics of imperalism. i am surprise that MY would submit to that.  

• tankfanatic

  6 May 08, 11:17

  more like PR stunt for their tourism industry

• edwin3060

  6 May 08, 14:53

  Agreed-- both sides reap good PR from this, which is why they are doing it.

• CX

  6 May 08, 21:19

  Originally posted by edwin3060:

  Agreed-- both sides reap good PR from this, which is why they are doing it.

  
  good PR for the brits, maybe... appearing nice to muslims while they're knee deep in turd in afghanistan and iraq...

  PR for the Malaysians???

  Looks more like a fool's errand to me...