Commonwealth dignitaries, veterans attend Remembrance Day

Thambipillay (left) laying a wreath at the Cenotaph during the ceremony.

DATUK R. Thambipillay still has vivid memories of incidences during the Malayan Emergency.

The Warriors’s Association Malaysia founder and patron, who was a policeman between 1948 and 1960, fought against the communists back then and said that he still remembers the time like it was yesterday.