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15 August 1945 Japanese occupation of Malaya. From 31 January 1942 to 15 August 1945. British Military Administration (15 August 1945 – 30 March 1946) Governor of the Malayan Union (1946–1948) 10 Sir Gerard Edward James Gent: 1 April 1946 30 January 1948 High Commissioner for Malaya (1948–1957) 11 Sir Gerard Edward James Gent: 1 February 1948
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4 September – WW2: Japanese forces in Malaya surrendered to the Allies at Penang, signing Penang surrender document on HMS Nelson. 12 September – British Military Administration(BMA) was installed in Kuala Lumpur. 17 October – Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya was established. Late 1945 – Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) was established.
The British Military Administration (BMA) was the interim administrator of British Malaya from August 1945, the end of World War II, to the establishment of the Malayan Union in April 1946. The BMA was under the direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten. The administration had the dual function of ...
The position existed from 1826 to 1946. Between 1942 and 1945 the office was not filled, as the Straits Settlements was under Japanese occupation. From the late 19th century onward, the governor of the Straits Settlements was usually also British High Commissioner in Malaya and Brunei and British Agent for Sarawak and British North Borneo. [1]
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The Malaya Command was a formation of the British Army formed in the 1920s for the coordination of the defences of British Malaya, which comprised the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States. [1] It consisted mainly of small garrison forces in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Taiping, Seremban and Singapore.
The British Military Administration of Libya (sometimes known as British Military Administration (Tripolitania)), the interim administration established on former Italian Libya between the beginning of Allied occupation of the territory in late 1942 and the independence of the Kingdom of Libya on 24 December 1951.