Gerald Templer information

Sir Gerald Templer
Sir Gerald Templer
	General Sir Gerald Templer in Malaya, 1953
Nickname(s)	"Tiger of Malaya"
Born	11 September 1898; Colchester, Essex, England
Died	25 October 1979 (aged 81); Chelsea, London, England
Buried	St. Michael's churchyard, Wilsford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1916–1958
Rank	Field Marshal
Service number	15307
Unit	Royal Irish Fusiliers; Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
Commands held	Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1955–58); Eastern Command (1950–52); 6th Armoured Division (1944); 56th (London) Infantry Division (1943–44); 1st Infantry Division (1943); XI Corps (1943); II Corps (1942–43); 47th (London) Infantry Division (1942); 210th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) (1940–41); 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (1940)
Battles/wars	First World War Hundred Days Offensive; ; Arab revolt in Palestine; Second World War North African campaign; Italian campaign Battle of Anzio; Battle of Monte Cassino; Gothic Line offensive; ; Western Allied invasion of Germany; ; Malayan Emergency; Suez Crisis;
Awards	Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George; Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Companion of the Distinguished Service Order; Mentioned in Despatches (2); Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States); Commander of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium); Croix de guerre (Belgium); Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands); Grand Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (Malaya)

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and took part against the Arab Resistance in Palestine.^[2] As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 and 1958, Templer was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum.

Templer is best known for implementing strategies that heavily contributed to the defeat of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) during the Malayan Emergency. Some historians have described his methods as a successful example of a "hearts and minds" campaign, while other scholars have dismissed this as a myth due to his over-reliance on population control and coercion.^[3]^[4] Templer also oversaw, ordered, and personally approved of many controversial policies and numerous atrocities committed by his troops. These including the use of internment camps called "New Villages", the forced relocation of ethnic minorities,^[5] forced conscription,^[3] collective punishment against civilians,^[3] the hiring of specialist Iban-headhunters to decapitate suspected communists,^[3]^[6]^[7]^[8] pioneering the use of Agent Orange (later used in Vietnam),^[3]^[9] and the use of scorched earth policies deprive the MNLA of resources.^[10]

Many of the strategies he enforced were later (unsuccessfully) implemented by the United States in Vietnam.^[11]

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[2] Newsinger, John (2015). British Counterinsurgency 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-230-29824-8.

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[11] Tilman, Robert O. (1 August 1966). "The Non-Lessons of the Malayan Emergency". Far Eastern Survey. 6 (8) – via University of California Press.

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