Photograph of British soldiers on parade at Penarek Airfield, Trengganu, 1969

This photo shows the parade marking the completion of Penarek Airfield in Trengganu. Constructed by a troop of British Royal Engineers, the airfield was used in 1970 in the massive Five-Power Defence Agreement exercise called Bersatu Padu, and was intended to be capable of landing at least a hundred C-130 cargo planes. Apart from Singaporean troops, soldiers from Malaysia, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand took part in Bersatu Padu.

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