Malayan Emergency Commemoration for Malaya & Borneo Veterans Day 31 August 2025. Registration information for Australian War Memorial ceremony

Malaya & Borneo Veterans Day 31 August 2025 Canberra ACT
Malayan Emergency Commemoration

This link below will take you to the DVA page relating to this Malayan Emergency ceremony in
Canberra. This ceremony recognises Australia entering the Emergency in 1955 and the ongoing
participation in that lengthy campaign.

https://www.dva.gov.au/recognition/commemorations/commemorative-services/commemorative-
services-australia/75th-anniversary-australian-service-malayan-emergency

Within this page is the link to an online registration portal for persons who plan to attend.
Please monitor this website for first hand information.

Note also that the Last Post ceremony at the AWM on this Malaya and Borneo Veterans Day will
focus on a 3RAR soldier Lt David John Brian of Chatswood NSW who died in Malaya during the
Emergency.

We remember those who served in the FESR on Malaya & Borneo Veterans Day.
Pictured above: Two soldiers of 1RAR, going into operations by canoe, L1A1 self-loading rifles at the ready.
Image from: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C206977