Soldier who found love in Malaysia 29 Jun 2021 / 08:43 H.
LITTLE did Christopher James Syer know that when he arrived in Malaya six decades ago, he would end up making this country his home.
Syer was conscripted into the army at age 20, and was posted to Malaya as a second lieutenant with the British Royal Army Service Corp.
“I arrived in a country I knew only from reading books,” he recounted in a recent interview with
theSun at the office of the Malaysia British Society, of which he is president.
The native of Swanage in England had never even been inside a plane at the time, much less travelled almost half a world away to serve in another country.