5921534 Admiral Mountbatten and Major General Messervy with Force 136 leaders after their disbandment in Singapore, 1946 (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and Major General Sir Frank Messervy with Force 136 leaders after their disbandment in Singapore, 1946. Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1946. Force 136 was a multi-national resistance force organised by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to resist Japanese occupation in the Far East. Its operations in Malaya involved close collaboration with the Malayan Peoples\' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). This organisation was dominated by Chinese members of the Malayan Communist party who went on to play a leading role in the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). Disbanded in December 1945, the MPAJA was supposed to hand in all of its Allied-supplied weaponry to the British Military Administration, but much of it remained hidden and was used by the Communists in their subsequent guerilla campaign. From a collection of official photographs collected by Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Frank Walter Messervy.); by National Army Museum ; out of copyright.