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Leonard Francis Comber (20 September 1921 – 11 May 2023) was a British military and police officer, and later book publisher, operating in British India, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. He was also an editor and author of books relating to South-East Asia.[1][2]
^"The officer who loved Malaya". The Star, November 30, 2008 By MARTIN VENGADESAN
^Corfield, Justin (2010). Historical Dictionary of Singapore. Scarecrow Press. pp. 66. ISBN 978-0810873872.
administration of the country to the civilian government in April 1946. LeonComber, a Chinese speaker, spent most of his police service with the Special...
her autobiography My House Has Two Doors (1980). In 1952, she married LeonComber, a British officer in the Malayan Special Branch, and went with him to...
July 2000. Nina Sibal Memorial Award, All India Women's Education Fund. LeonComber (ed.), Prize Winning Asian Fiction, Times Books, 1991. Chandra Nisha...
Malaysia's Modern Development. Areca Books. pp. 313–. ISBN 978-983-42113-0-1. LeonComber (2008). Malaya's Secret Police 1945-60: The Role of the Special Branch...
journalist and spokesman, U.S. State Department spokesperson (1977–1980). LeonComber, 101, British military officer and author. Stanley Engerman, 87, American...
Malayan Communist Party. Singapore: NUS Press. p. 131. ISBN 9971692872. LeonComber, "'Traitor of all Traitors'—Secret Agent "Extraordinaire": Lai Teck,...
Rafflesians, 1823-2003. World Scientific. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-981-277-892-5. LeonComber (2012). "The Malayan Emergency: General Templer and the Kinta Valley...
Branch officer, and a widely acknowledged expert on counter-insurgency, LeonComber. The Struggle For Malaysian Independence, 2007—the history of Malaysian...
from 1981 to 1988. Prizewinning Asian Fiction (edited and introduced by LeonComber) was eventually published in book form in 1991 by Times Editions, Singapore...
societies in Malaya: a survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900, LeonComber, Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J.J. Augustin, 1959...
Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900 By LeonComber Published by Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J.J....
predicting or forewarning the MCP’s violent uprising in June 1948. Historian LeonComber contends that Dalley did indeed provide sufficient information about...
16th-century novel Bao Gong An by An Yushi (安遇時) (partially translated by LeonComber in 1964) increased his popularity and added a detective element to his...
Asia), a subsidiary of Heinemann, London. Initiated and mainly edited by LeonComber, the series brought attention to various Asian Anglophone writers, like...
Societies in Malaya. A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900. By LeonComber B.A., F.R.A.S. pp. viii + 324, Map. Published for the Association for...
Persian) Rosemary Crossley has died In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023) LeonComber, former SB officer and author, dies at 102 Schriftstellerin Sibylle Lewitscharoff...
novel also damaged the career of Han's then-husband, LeonComber. In a November 2008 interview, Comber, who left the police force in 1956, three years before...
British Approach to Low-Intensity Operations: Part II, (2007), p. 4. LeonComber, Malaya's Secret Police, 1945–1960: The Role of Special Branch in the...
Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900 By LeonComber Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J.J. Augustin, 1959;...
imports. Briggs Plan New Villages Independence Day 1950s in Malaysia Comber, Leon (2015). Templer and the road to Malayan Independence. Institute of Southeast...
Secret Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800... by LeonComber; 1959 The Western Malay States, 1850–1873: the effects of commercial...
societies in Malaya: a survey of the Triad Society from 1800 ... By LeonComber Fieldstaff reports (Volumes 7-8 of Reports Service) By American Universities...
Independence in 1947 he was posted to London as ‘Principal, War Office’. LeonComber has stated that this position was a cover for MI5 which concurs with...
immediately recorded by several leading British acts, including Jack Leon, Bobbie Comber, Randolph Sutton, Billy Cotton, Jay Wilbur, Jack Hylton, and Leslie...
Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900 By LeonComber Published by Published for the Association for Asian Studies by J.J....
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