MIRI: They were the unsung heroes during the communist insurgency and regarded at the time as among “the best in the world” on a par with the elite Gurkha army.
Their unheralded journeys as the country’s heroes fighting alongside the British army against the communists in the thick jungles of the peninsula have finally been documented in the soon-to-be-released book Iban Trackers and Sarawak Rangers 1948-1963.
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