Sarawak Rangers

Sarawak Rangers badge
A line-up of armed Sarawak Rangers.
Sarawak Rangers comprising Ibans leap from a Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter to guard the Malay–Thai border from potential Communist attacks in 1965, two years before the Second Malayan Emergency starting in 1968.

The Sarawak Rangers were a paramilitary force founded in 1862 by the second White Rajah of the Raj of Sarawak, Charles Brooke.[1]

  1. ^ Nicholas Tarling (29 August 2003). Imperialism in Southeast Asia. Routledge. pp. 319–. ISBN 1-134-57081-3.