as a brigade major during the Dunkirk evacuation in France during the Second World War, and later commanded the first and second Battlions of the Scots Guards. He also served in North Africa and Italy, and received the Distinguished Service Order in May 1943 at the end of the African campaign. Authorities then proceeded to search the countryside for a sign of the aircraft, which was believed to have made a forced landing due to stormy conditions and did not find the plane until nearly five years later on August 3, 1954 along with Erskine's service ribbons. A foot patrol then came across some scattered wreckage and human bones, along with a few fragments of medal ribbon, determining that the victim was the missing Erskine. Communist insurgency (Malaysia) After the end of the Malayan Emergency in 1960, the MNLA began to operate again around Karak during the country's second insurgency in the 1970s, though fighting was lighter compared to the late 40s and 50s. In 1974, security forces killed two fighters in clash in the Karak area, finding several firearms, ammunition and food supplies, with police claiming there was still communist activity in the area by late 1976. In 1977, police and security forces hunting an MNLA leader known as Chai Kar Leong (nicknamed "Robin"), catching him and his wife near Karak in the Telemong Forest on April 2. Police then kicked off a series of operations codenamed Operation Kelong to flush out a communist unit that had been operating in the area. They first arrested two communist fighters who identified as Ah Hon (nicknamed "Batman") and Tien Chen, who then agreed to work with police to persuade a band of 14 comrades in a Telemong jungle camp to surrender. On May 14, a group of 29 police and military personnel entered the Telemong Forest with the two ex-communists entering the camp first to convince their comrades to give up. Their efforts were successful, and the next day, all the 14 surrendered and handed over their weapons, items and cash worth 177,000 ringgit before they were airlifted out of there by helicopter. The successful operation prevented the movement of the communists in the area from moving to the country's south, as police kicked off two more operations codenamed Operation Kelong II and III to hunt for remaining fighters, including Chai's former deputy Pang Kuan. After a number of missions in