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Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner, Malaya, 7 October 1951 (colour litho)

Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner, Malaya, 7 October 1951 (colour litho)
England
United-Kingdom
Europe
Asia
murder
crime
car
vehicle
transport
battle
colony
fight
communism
empire
forest
ambush
jungle
motor
road
terrorism
violence
Malaysia
South-East-Asia
diplomat
Molino-Walter-(1915-1997)
20th-century
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colony
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ambush
jungle
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Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner, Malaya, 7 October 1951 (colour litho)

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Molino, Walter (1915-1997) / Italian
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colour lithograph

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1951 AD (C20th AD)

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Height of the Malayan Emergency; Gurney killed by members of the Malayan Communist Party. Riding in his Rolls Royce Silver Wraith with his wife and private secretary, D J Staples. Ambush in the jungle. Communist terrorists stationed in the thick forest northeast of Selangor in Malaysia have opened fire on the car of British high commissioner Sir Henry Gurney. To prevent his wife sitting by his side from being hit, the Gurney, having his car stopped, descended so as to draw fire on himself; and he fell fatally wounded. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 21 October 1951.

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