“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man." “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
In 1879 Lt Col Robert Sandilands Frowd (RSF) Walker was named Perak Commissioner of Perak Armed Police, taking over from Major Paul Swinburne. In 1883 he recruited 250 Sikhs and Pathans from Punjab for Perak Armed Police.
By 1884 the unit had 650 men, Sikhs, Punjabi Muslims, Pathans and 100 Malays. The Perak Armed Police was renamed as 1st Battalion Perak Sikh Military Police (1st Perak Sikhs ), with Walker as the commandant.
Selangor & Pahang formed Sikh Military Police Forces on similar lines and helped quell the Pahang rebellion in 1891. The State of Selangor has 530 Selangor Sikhs under Captain H.C.Syers and Pahang has, in 1890 13 Sikh police in Jelebu under Inspector Henessy.
In 1895 the Federated Malaya States was formed. The treaty requires all states to maintain a military force.
A regular infantry regiment was then formed from the various police units. In 1896 the regiment was renamed Malaya States Guides. It consisted of Majha Sikhs in A & B companies, Malwa Sikhs forming C & D companies. The Doaba Sikhs could join any Sikh companies.
1 Punjabi Muslim and Pathan companies was also formed. A depot was established for training recruits. ( A 7th company was raised temporarily during the Boer War to garrison Penang after British troops withdrawn). There were 10 Officers, 8 Native officers & 596 NCOs and men. By the onset of WW1, the force has grown to 900 men.
In 1897 June the regiment was sent to march in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in London
