Description
Description: Squadron Patch – Support Unit Tengah 1975 – 1983
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Squadron Patch – Support Unit Tengah 1975 – 1983.
Originally formed to provide administrative and logistic support to RAAF components of an Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom (ANZUK) combined force, it principally met the needs of a small communications detachment at Kranji and a detachment of eight Mirage fighters deployed from Butterworth. Within a month of the unit’s formation, Tengah had been handed over to the Singapore Armed Forces, and during late 1974 a RAAF Bloodhound Advisory Flight operating from Seletar was disbanded. When ANZUK ceased to exist from January 1975, the RAAF Support Unit assumed responsibility for administering all Australian Service personnel remaining in Singapore. After the RNZAF also vacated Tengah in 1981, the Australian unit remained the only foreign tenant on what was now a Republic of Singapore Air Force base. It disbaned in 1983.
