During World War Two, Comber served as an officer in the Indian Army[4] and took part in military operations in Assam and Burma.
[5] At the end of the war, he was among those who landed at Morib Beach, Selangor, on the west coast of Malaya, and witnessed the surrender of Japanese forces in Kelantan.
Leon Comber, a Chinese speaker, spent most of his police service with the Special Branch, the organisation responsible for political, security and operational intelligence.
[1] Comber left Special Branch after his wife, author Han Suyin, whom he married in 1952, wrote a novel, And the Rain My Drink (1956), which was viewed as being anti-British in its depiction of the guerrilla war of Chinese rubber workers against the government.
[9] He became managing director of local Heinemann subsidiary companies established in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.