King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Singapore was one of those critical staging posts.

The British Indian Army's Fifth Light Infantry were a long-established regiment that were posted from India to replace the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who'd been sent to France.

The Fifth Light Infantry were known as the Loyals, derived from their loyalty to the British Army when the mutiny took place in India in 1857.

When they moved to Singapore in the autumn of 1914, the regiment was entirely Muslim, from north of the Indian subcontinent, with Rangers from Rajput and Pathans from the Afghan border regions, roughly 50% of each.