WW2 (1942?) RAF Silk Escape Map

[Gil Boyd]

Interesting.......prior to going out to Borneo having arranged a return to a battle site for 3 veterans of 2 PARA from a little known battle after 50 years called Plaman Mapu, a small hillock on the border with Indonesia where 36 of 2 PARA's young soldiers fought off 400 Indonesian SF, there I was in Hereford visiting my daughter ironically, and stumbled across a shop that had been given a load of Borneo escape maps stamped RAF RESTRICTED, clearly dated 1965, the very year we were commemorating, from some ex Regiment guy.

Well I bought 3 at £12 each and wanted to give the guys something special at the end of it all. What tremendous value. There were other silk escape maps covering BAOR and other historical events, but heyho!
It was just that, "special" and a great keepsake for each of them to mark their return and their sacrifice, which had they not done it in that heady period, the Malaysian Federation would have collapsed and today would have been under Communist rule, including Singapore.
Isn't worth thinking about really.

If interested in this period of history here is an hour long documentary made for Forces Tv:

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