The body of a Malayan insurgent trussed to a stake, brought in by a British patrol, 1952
Photograph, Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), 1952.
The British and their allies sometimes removed the heads or other body parts of dead insurgents as a way of identifying guerrillas when it was not possible to bring their corpses in from the jungle. There were also cases of the bodies being exhibited in public as a way of frightening any Communist sympathisers in the local population.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1963-09-163-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1963-09-163-1