Edmund Ritson DEWSNUP and Annie Josephine THOMAS

Husband Edmund Ritson DEWSNUP [1672] ¹

           Born: Dec Q 1902 - Manchester, Lancashire, England ²
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:

         Father: Ernest Ritson DEWSNUP [85] (1874-1950)
         Mother: Sarah Jane GIBBS [86] (1872-1967)

       Marriage: Dec Q 1925 - Liverpool, Lancashire, England^[MRIN:687] ³ ⁴

Noted events in his life were:

• 1910 USA Census (22 Apr) ⁵, 22 Apr 1910 - Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

Wife Annie Josephine THOMAS [2265]

           Born: Mar Q 1904 - West Derby, Lancashire, England ⁶
     Christened: 
           Died: 1944 ⁷ ⁸
         Buried:

         Father: Joseph THOMAS [2378] (      -Abt 1931) ⁹
         Mother: Alice BROWN [2379] (      -1943) ¹⁰

Children

1 M Edmund Colin Ritson DEWSNUP [2140]

            AKA: Mohamed Ruslan bin Abdullah ISKANDAR,^¹¹ Ruslan bin MOHAMED^⁸
           Born: 8 Jul 1929 - Wallasey, Cheshire, England ⁸ ¹⁰
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Nov 2005 - Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia ¹² ¹³
         Buried:

         Spouse: Musli Mustafa HAKIM [2139] (      -      )
           Marr: Jun 1966 - Penang, , Pulau Pinang, Malaysia^[MRIN:688] ¹⁴

2 F Brenda Josephine DEWSNUP [2273]

           Born: Sep 1931
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:

         Spouse: Benamin Kingsley HUNTLEY [2274] (      -      )
           Marr: ^[MRIN:732] ⁸

Sources

1 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), page 12. Surety: 3; Ernest Ritson DEWSNUP was proud of an ancestor Joseph RITSON who collected Old English Poetry. In respect he added RITSON to all his childrens names; Ruslan's Authorization
I Mohd Ruslan bin Abdullah hereby appiont Roy Davis Linville Jumper as an official biographer of my life and time

(signed) Mohd Ruslan
15-10-2000; Found on page 392

2 FreeBMD - GRO Index (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl?js=0), 4th Qu 1902, Manchester Vol 8d Page 238. Surety: 3.

3 Ibid, Liverpool Vol 8b Page 326. Surety: 4.

4 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), Page 12. Surety: 4.

5 USA 1910 Census, Champaign Ciry Ward 7 Folio 203. Surety: 3. West Hill Street
DEWSNUP Ernest R Head M 36 Professor; England
Sarah J Wife M 37 ; England
Sarah J Dau S 8 ; England
Edmund R Son S 7 ; England
Roger R Son 4 ; Illinois, USA
Esther R Dau S 3 ; Illinois, USA.

6 FreeBMD - GRO Index (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl?js=0), W. Derby Vol 8b Page 363. Surety: 4.

7 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), page 50. Surety: 3.

8 Edmund Colin Ritson DEWSNUP, GibbFamilyTree (Descendants of John Richard Gibbs download from: http://www.senoipraaq.com
GibbFamilyTree.pdf), Surety: 2.

9 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), page 6. Surety: 3.

10 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), Page 5. Surety: 4.

11 Internet Source URL:, http://www.senoipraaq.com/. Surety: 3.
Ruslan of Malaysia:
The Man Behind the Domino that Didn't Fall

Malaya for the British parallels both in time and scope French and American experiences in Vietnam. Just a few hundred miles south of Saigon more than 300,000 Commonwealth troops fought a long and bloody guerilla war, dubbed the Malayan Emergency, to suppress their very own lessor known Marxist-Leninist bete noir. The primary but seldom noticed difference between these closely related conflicts: Great Britain won her fight against communism whereas France and the United States failed theirs.

She achieved this remarkable feat of arms and moreover made the results stick thanks in large part to the fantastic exploits of an eccentric Englishman who went native and became a warlord in Malaya's remote jungles. Upon conversion to Islam he chose the name Mohamed Ruslan bin Abdullah lskandar, dropping forever his birth name, Edmund Colin Ritson Dewsnup. In keeping with the tradition of the Islamic warrior he would, among friends, family and associates, go thereafter by one name only--Ruslan.

Ruslan compares to the likes of Chinese Gordon, T. E. Lawrence, Raja Brook, R.O.D. Noone and a number of lessor, albeit equally illustrious figures, such as Fitzroy Maclean and Spencer Chapman. Yet, precious little in the published record exists to identify properly this man and his many accomplishments among Malaysia's indigenous non-Malay people, the Orang Asli. Only sketchy, sparse and isolated references to him are to be found, thus confusing his identity with that of two different individuals.

Other than casual mention of him as a young man by John Slimming in Temiar Jungle no more than a sprinkling of fleeting nods to Ruslan are known to exist. John Cloake, Field Marshall Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer's biographer, cites Lieutenant Dewsnup for sterling work performed early in the war while Anthony Short, in his seminal study of the Malayan Emergency, mentions him briefly in the context of later paramilitary accomplishments as Ruslan Abdullah, the Senoi Praaq commander. More recently, even John Leary, of Violence and the Dream People fame, simply cites in passing their conversations. Chin Peng himself disclosed in My Side of History he feared "special troops" most of all, yet he failed to mention the very individual who led the best of these fighters and blocked application in Malaysia of the much heralded (and probably valid) domino theory of international politics.
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12 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), Page 389. Surety: 4.

13 Email from, Clint E Thomas<metthom1@juno.com>. Surety: 3.
I've put the names which Ruslan (Edmund Colin Ritson Dewsnup)
lettered carefully into his family tree on our web site at
www.senoipraaq.com . Ruslan passed away in Kuala Lumput a year ago after
being in a coma for a number of years. His wife, children and sister,
Brenda, survive him.

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14 Roy Davis Linville Jumper, Ruslan of Malaysia - The Man Behind the Domino That Didn't Fall (South Padre Island, Texas USA: CDR Press, 2007), Page284. Surety: 3.

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