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Gerald Templer

Gerald Templer

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. 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. 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, forced conscription, collective punishment against civilians, the hiring of specialist Iban-headhunters to decapitate suspected communists, pioneering the use of Agent Orange (later used in Vietnam), and the use of scorched earth policies deprive the MNLA of resources.

Many of the counter-insurgency strategies he pioneered were later imitated by the United States in Vietnam.

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Ethel Templer

Ethel Margery Davie, Lady Templer (23 July 1904 – 24 March 1997) was a lieutenant colonel in the St John Ambulance Brigade during World War II, the founder of Lady Templer Hospital in Malaya and active during the Malaya Emergency. She was the wife of Sir Gerald Templer, and when he was British High Commissioner of Malaysia, she was known as the "First Lady of Malaysia".

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