Perak War Memorial Cenotaph at Ipoh Railway Station - Part 1

There is a war memorial at Station Square in front of Ipoh Railway Station to commemorate all those who sacrificed their lives defending the nation since World War 1 in 1914. More details about this memorial can be found at the "Roll of Honour" website here. They have a picture of the original plaque.

According to source from Ipohworld Archives (click on link),  the brass plate on the front of the Cenotaph originally read as follows:

"Memorial to the dead of the

two World Wars.

Sacred to the memory of the

men from the State of Perak

who fell in the Great War

1914-1918"

After World War 2, a marble slab was added below it carrying the words:

 "And to those who died in the 1939-1945 War".

Sometime after 1970, the local Government made a new replacement plague which reads as follows:

 "Memorial to the dead of the

two world wars.

Sacred to the memory of the

men from the state of Perak

who fell in the Great War

1914-1918

And those who died in the 1939-45 war".

The plague that I have pictured here was taken in 2009 and it reads as follows:

"IN MEMORY OF GALLENT MEMBERS OF

THE ARMED FORCES, POLICE AND CIVILLIANS

WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES

DEFENDING THE NATIONAL DURING

THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY

1948-1965

INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION

1962-1965

THE INSURGENCY PERIOD

1972-1990".

Do you think there is a grammatical error in the fourth line? I think it should be 'nation' instead of 'national'.

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