When your number is up: A sole Australian lost in the Malay Regiment

Very few have heard of Jim Law, an Australian, who went to Malaya (now Malaysia) prior to WWII, to make his fortune. With the threat of Japanese invasion and a sense of duty, Jim was fatefully attached to the Malay Regiment, a local askari unit. It wasn’t long before he was caught up in the events that led to the Fall of Singapore in February 1942. Jim fought bravely against the Japanese until being tragically killed just three days before the allied surrender. This is his untold story.

 (Written by guest blogger, Stuart Lloyd, author of the “Malay Experiment”)