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wish by New Zealand veterans groups and some families to have the remains repatriated to New Zealand for reburial. After considerable consultation and much resistance from the New Zealand Government, in 2017 an offer was finally made to the families of service personnel interred at Terendak to repatriate them at public expense as part of Project Te Auraki (The Return). Project Te Auraki is a New Zealand Government initiative to repatriate the 34 New Zealand service personnel interred in non-Commonwealth War Grave Commission-administrated cemeteries around the world. On 21 August 2018, the 18 New Zealand servicemen interred at Terendak were repatriated to New Zealand, along with the 9 other service personnel and one child interred in various cemeteries in Malaysia and Singapore.
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Between 1960 and August 2018, 18 New Zealanders who had died in Malaysia or South Vietnam were interred in the Terendak Garrison Cemetery. As the Terendak Garrison Cemetery is not a recognised Commonwealth Cemetery and the care and future of the New Zealand graves could not be guaranteed, there was a
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28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade were actively engaged in the confrontation with Indonesia from 1963 until 1966. Some casualties from this campaign are buried in the Terendak Garrison Cemetery, additionally some Australian and New Zealand casualties from the Vietnam war are also interred at
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Terendak was handed over to the Malaysian army by the 28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade on 28 March 1970, and has been occupied by the 1st Infantry Brigade ever since. The Terendak Camp later housed the
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Construction of Terendak was started in June 1957 and was completed by 1964. Terendak covered an area of close to 1,500 acres with an additional training area of 3,500 acres.
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Terendak. Dependents who died of natural causes and the remains of personnel from earlier conflicts are also interred in the Terandak Garrison Cemetery.
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28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade occupancy started in late 1959 and by the mid-1960s the camp was fully occupied.
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On 2 June 2016, the remains of 32 persons interred at Terendak including several family members, plus one
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to Terendak Garrison on 18 February 1965. All the schoolchildren and families came to see the royal party.
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There are now 323 non-World War servicemen and dependent burials in the Terendak Garrison Cemetery.
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One federal government department responsible for the construction and maintenance of the camp
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10th Field Workshop Company (Parachute), Royal Electric & Mechanical Engineer
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Remains of Australians buried in overseas military cemeteries arrive in Sydney
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Commonwealth Brigade Units were accommodated in the following barrack areas:
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during their relocation from North Malaysia in 1959–1960. The newly built
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Within Terendak Camp the following facilities were available:
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Mountbatten Primary School (today known as SK Kem Terendak 1)
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Something extra : 28 Commonwealth Brigade, 1951 to 1974
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Military Police Platoon (Parachute), Royal Military Police
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361th Air Defence Battery (Parachute), Royal Artillery
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Medical Company (Parachute), Royal Medical and Dental
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A Supply Depot (Foodstuffs, Fuel, Oil and Lubricants)
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Military aerial photography of the Terendak Camp and
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Repatriation of New Zealanders interred at Terendak
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Melaka Tengah
Alor Gajah
Sungai Udang
Malacca

Sungai Udang Camp
Terendak Camp is located in Malaysia
2°17′14″N 102°05′50″E / 2.287213°N 102.09728°E / 2.287213; 102.09728
Malaysian Ministry of Defence
Malaysian Army
3rd Infantry Division
10th Parachute Brigade
94 Armed Forces Hospital
32nd Regiment, Royal Artillery
Direction
dirt
Malaysian Army
military base
Sungai Udang
Central Melaka District
Melaka
Malaysia
Commonwealth of Nations
Malaysian Armed Forces
Sungai Udang Camp

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
28th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade Group
Sungai Udang Camp
Federation Regiment

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