We are very much OLDER/SENIOR than the Royal Malay Regiment !!!!!
The Rangers are more than a CENTURY OLD (143 years) !!!!! 1862 Sarawak Rangers
1932 Absorbed into Sarawak Constabulary
1941 Sarawak Rangers reformed as separate military unit
1942 Captured by Japanese and disbanded
1948 Iban trackers from Sarawak first employed by British in Malayan Emergency 1953 Sarawak Rangers re-formed as company from Iban trackers who had been serving with Iban Trackers
1960 Special Tracker Team
1963 Renjer Malaysia (Rangers Malaysia). Transferred from Sarawak Colony to Malaysian Army, and expanded into multi-battalion, multi-ethnic regiment
1965 The Malaysia Rangers
1971 Rejimen Renjer (The Ranger Regiment)
1992 Rejimen Renjer DiRaja (The Royal Ranger Regiment) |