MBE for two Malaysians for keeping history alive
KUALA LUMPUR: Two Malaysians were yesterday made honorary members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for their untiring efforts in helping to preserve and manage historical war sites and memorials.
Chye Kooi Loong, 75, and Sevee Charuruks, 57, were presented the award by British High Commissioner to Malaysia Boyd McCleary at his residence here.
Chye, who joined the British Battalion when World War II broke out, started a campaign in 2003
to push the Government to preserve as a historical site the battlefield at Green Ridge in Kampar, Perak.
Chye wrote about the struggle of the British Battalion in a book "The History of the British Battalion Malayan Campaign 1941-42" published in 1984.
Charuruks restored and manages the Kundasang War Memorial in Sabah.
The Kundasang War Memorial near Mt Kinabalu is a site dedicated to the 2,428 allied servicemen who were Japanese prisoners of war in Sandakan. — Bernama
