Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 2: Malayan soldiers who went to England for the Coronation (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of uniformed Malayan soldiers in white standing in ranks on a parade ground, three bearing regimental colours. The Tamil caption says the soldiers who went to England for the coronation ceremony included men of the Federation Regiment, the Malay Regiment and the armoured cars. The tell is transfer: the coronation and the colours attach the monarchy's prestige to the Malayan forces.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730004, 306-PPA-103).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை மகுடாபிஷேக வைபவத்திற்கு இங்கிலாந்து சென்றிருந்த மலாயா சிப்பாய்களில் பெடரேஷன் பட்டாளம், மலாய் பட்டாளம், கவச மோட்டார் ஆகியவற்றைச் சேர்ந்தவர்களும் உளர். [2]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army Among the Malayan soldiers who went to England for the coronation ceremony are members of the Federation Regiment, the Malay Regiment and the armoured cars. [2]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'.
