Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney

Date	6 October 1951
Location	Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaya

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Strength

13 police

Casualties and losses

1 killed
several wounded

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Malayan Emergency

Sungai Siput Incident (1948) Death of Lau Yew (1948) Batang Kali massacre (1948) Labis Incident (1950) Penang Ambush (1950) Bukit Kepong Incident (1950) Briggs Plan/New Village (1950) Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney (1951) Operation Termite (1954) Pipeline Ambush (1956) Baling Talks (1956)

The Assassination of Sir Henry Gurney took place at the height of the Malayan Emergency. The British High Commissioner Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney was killed by members of the Malayan Communist Party at Mile 56 ½, Kuala Kubu Road on 7 October 1951, on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting.^[1]^[2] The communist militants ambushed his Rolls Royce Silver Wraith and shot him to death. His remains was buried at the Cheras Road Christian Cemetery (now Cheras War Cemetery) at Jalan Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.^[3]^[4]

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Key people

Peninsular Malaysia	Chin Peng Abdullah CD Ahmad Boestamam Lai Teck Shamsiah Fakeh Rashid Maidin Mokhtaruddin Lasso Kamarulzaman Teh Ishak Haji Muhammad Abu Samah Mohd Kassim S. A. Ganapathy Suriani Abdullah Lau Yew Chen Tien Yeung Kwo Fong Chong Pik Eu Chooi Yip Wahi Annuar Muhammad Indera R. G. Balan P. Veerasenan

Malaysian Borneo	Bong Kee Chok Yang Chu Chung Wen Ming Chyuan Yap Choon Hau Lam Wah Kwai Ang Chu Ting Wong Lieng Kui Cheung Ah Wah