Communist victory 1950 1951 1954 1956 The assassination of Sir Henry Gurney took place on 6 October 1951 at the height of the Malayan Emergency.

Gurney, the British High Commissioner in Malaya, was killed by members of the Malayan Communist Party at Mile 56 ½ of Kuala Kubu Road on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting.

When the firing eased, Lady Gurney crawled out of the Rolls-Royce, only to discover her husband's body lying in a roadside ditch.

Twenty minutes later, the officer in charge of the armoured scout car arrived at the scene with reinforcements from the police station.

[3][4] According to Communist leader Chin Peng, the ambush was routine, the killing by chance, and the guerrillas only learned the High Commissioner was among the dead from news reports.