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| Edmund Colin Ritson DEWSNUP [2140]
(1929-2005) |
Edmund Colin Ritson DEWSNUP [2140]
• Occupation: National Service in the British Army, Sep 1947. 7 After basic training he was sent to Officer Candidate school which he finished as a Lieutenant and served in Egypt guarding the Suez Canal. He was honorably discharged on 13 Oct 1949.
Edmund married Musli Mustafa HAKIM [2139] [MRIN: 688] in Jun 1966 in Penang, , Pulau Pinang, MYS.1 |
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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; 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 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.
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Edmund Colin Ritson DEWSNUP, GibbFamilyTree (Descendants of John Richard Gibbs download from: http://www.senoipraaq.com
GibbFamilyTree.pdf).
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 389.
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Email from, Clint E Thomas<metthom1@juno.com>.
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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Internet Source URL:, http://www.senoipraaq.com/.
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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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), Pages 60 - 89.
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Other names for Edmund were Mohamed Ruslan bin Abdullah ISKANDAR and Ruslan bin MOHAMED.