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--- h_c_syers [2024/09/11 12:05] – [1897 (14 Julai): Terbunuh oleh Seladang Buruan] sazli
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   * [[rekoh#lawatan_jp_rodger_dan_hc_syers|Rekoh: 1883-03-18: Lawatan J.P. Rodger dan H.C. Syers]]
-===== Sejarah Hidup =====
+====== Sejarah Hidup ======
-==== 1853 (17 Jun): Dilahirkan ====
+===== 1853 (17 Jun): Dilahirkan =====
-==== 1875-1882: Pembentukan Polis Selangor ====
+===== 1875-1882: Pembentukan Polis Selangor =====
 //"Menyusuri sejarah awal pembentukan pasukan polis bermula pada tahun 1874 apabila Davidson dilantik sebagai Residen British. Pembentukan pasukan polis diserahkan kepada seorang pegawai muda bernama Harry Syers. Dalam bulan Julai 1875, beliau dilantik sebagai Penguasa Polis dan Penjara Selangor. Menjelang Oktober 1878 anggota Pasukan Polis Selangor meningkat ke angka 270 dan kesemuanya adalah melayu. Balai-balai polis juga didirikan di Klang, Kuala Lumpur, Damansara, Kubu Lama, Sungai Pelong, Hulu Selangor, Sabak Bernam, Jugra, Kancing, Krian dan Hulu
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 **Kanan**: //"Bluff Road Hill (Bukit Aman), dari kaki bukit. Kelihatan kemungkinan rumah H.C.Syers dan berek polis di puncaknya"// ([[https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Aman|Wikipedia]]).
-==== 1878 (Jun-Julai): Penemuan Batu Caves ====
+===== 1878 (Jun-Julai): Penemuan Batu Caves =====
 //"William T. HORNADAY (1 December 1854 - 7 March 1937) was the "discoverer" of Batu Caves. ... Hornaday visited Selangor in June - July 1878. He planned a trip into the interior with H.C. SYERS, the Superintendent of the Police. They travelled by ponies from Kwala Lumpor to Batu on the Klang River on 29 June. There they met some Jacoons, the local people, who were familiar with some nearby caves which they used as places of refuge from elephants. On 3 (?) July Hornaday and Syers were on a hunting trip for elephants, and on their way home they were shown a cave, Gua Belah or Double Cave. The next day they explored Gua Lada or Chilli Cave where the Jacoons used to catch bats to eat. In the third cave, Gua Lambong, Hornaday sang to appreciate the resonance in the Cathedral Cave. Syers discharged his rifle which sounded like a deep boom of thunder. They entered the caves using torches of dry bamboo. On the way back to Kwala Lumpor Syers had a bad fall off his pony but was protected by his thick pith
 helmet."// (Liz Price, 2002: {{ :lampiran:398-article_text-786-1-10-20121024.pdf ||}}[[https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/carsologica/article/view/398|"Some 19th Century Visitors to Caves in Peninsular Malaysia"]], m.s.238-239).
-==== 1884: Royal Selangor Club ====
+===== 1884: Royal Selangor Club =====
 Antara pengasas [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Selangor_Club|The Royal Selangor Club]]: //"The club was founded as the Selangor Club in 1884 as a meeting point for educated and high-ranking members of British colonial society. Most of its early members were British, the founding members include H.C. Syers, the Superintendent of Selangor State; A.R. Venning, Treasurer of Selangor and head of the Sanitation Board (who also created the Lake Gardens); A. C. Norman who designed some early buildings of Kuala Lumpur; and H.F. Bellamy who headed the Selangor Public Works Department."// ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Selangor_Club|Royal Selangor Club @ Wikipedia]]).
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 (Sumber petikan dan gambar: PAM Heritage Conservation Committee (pamhericon): {{ :laman:old_selangor_unmasked_kl_klang_-_pamhericon.pdf ||}}[[https://sites.google.com/site/pamhericon/home/old-selangor-unmasked-kl-klang|"Old Selangor unmasked; KL, Klang"]]).
-==== 1886 (16 September): Perasmian Keretapi KL-Klang ====
+===== 1886 (16 September): Perasmian Keretapi KL-Klang =====
 {{gambar:malayrailway_1024x1024_2x.jpg?600|From Sultan Abdul Samad, to his left: Frederick Weld the Governor of S.S, Lady Weld, J.P. Rodger the Selangor Resident, Yap Ah Shak the Kapitan China, and H.C. Syers the Superintendent of Police in front of the guards.}} /* {{:gambar:15_sept_1886.jpg?600|From Sultan Abdul Samad, to his left: Frederick Weld the Governor of S.S, Lady Weld, J.P. Rodger the Selangor Resident, Yap Ah Shak the Kapitan China, and H.C. Syers the Superintendent of Police in front of the guards.}} */ \\
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 //"After a short and pleasant run the train arrived at the terminal station at Kwala Lumpur, where some of the principal residents, including a number of ladies, were waiting to receive  the governor, Lady Weld and the Misses Weld, and the Sultan. Among the ladies were Mrs. Venning, Mrs. Spence Moss, Mrs. Belfield and Mrs. Bellamy. the station was beautifully decorated, and a guard of honour commanded by Mr. H. C. Syers the Superintendent of the Selangor Police Force was in attendance. On the platform of the station Mr. Rodger, the Acting Resident of the State of Selangor, addressed His Excellency the Governor in a speech full of interest..."// (Straits Times Weekly Issue, 15th Sept. 1886, Pages 7, 8 & 9 @ [[https://www.facebook.com/Malcolm.WiltonJones|Malcom Wilton-Jones]]: [[http://searail.malayanrailways.com/Selangor/Newspaper%20reports%20Sel%2084-86.htm|"The Opening of the Selangor Railway"]]).
-==== 1887: Pengasas Muzium Selangor ====
+===== 1887: Pengasas Muzium Selangor =====
 //"'Pengasas penubuhan Muzium Selangor ialah H.C.Syers, dimana pembinaan ini telah dimulakan pada tahun 1888 dan siap sepenuhnya pada tahun 1904. Usaha-usaha mengumpulkan artifek-artifek zaman pra-sejarah untuk dipamerkan di muzium tersebut telah bermula sejak tahun 1894 lagi di mana J.P.Rodger telah menghadiahkan beberapa kapak dan beliung yang dikenali sebagai `Batu Lintar` pada masa itu kepada muzium tersebut.' (Ahmad Kamal Muhamad & Mohd. Zainudin Haji Abdullah, Sejarah Dan Perkembangan Muzium Selangor Sehingga Terbinanya Muzium Sultan Alam Shah, Shah Alam (1887-2002), Seri Alam, Jurnal Lembaga Muzium Selangor Darul Ehsan, Bil. 7, 2002/2003, hlm. 130)."// (Dr Shafie Abu Bakar, July 30, 2013: {{ :laman:dr_shafie_abu_bakar_dilema_sejarah_permuziuman_negeri_selangor_sambutan_satu_suku_abad_lebih_tepat.pdf ||}}[[http://drshafie.blogspot.com/2013/07/dilema-sejarah-permuziuman-negeri.html|"Dilema Sejarah Permuziuman Negeri Selangor: Sambutan Satu Suku Abad Lebih Tepat"]]).
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 **LATAR PERISTIWA: [[muzium_negara|Muzium Kuala Lumpur / Muzium Negara]]**.
-==== 1896 (1 Julai): Dilantik Federated States Police Commissioner ====
+===== 1896 (1 Julai): Dilantik Federated States Police Commissioner =====
 {{:gambar:19980005237g1.jpg?300|H.C. SYERS BERUNIFORM PENUH (BERDIRI DI SEBELAH KANAN SEKALI) BERSAMA HUGH CLIFFORD DAN RAJA IMPEH (DUDUK DI ATAS KERUSI) DI LOMBONG EMAS STOCKADE, BULAN MEI 1892.}}{{:gambar:dsc01507.jpg?320|H.C. Syers in uniform with Hugh Clifford at Raub Gold Mine stockade, May 1892.}} \\
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 //"The British resident system was established in the Malaya states in 1874, pioneered by Perak. In 1895, four Federated Malay States were merged into a federation. The federation united all its police forces on 1 July 1896. According to the federation's constitution, the police force, customs, Department of Survey, labour and defence departments were placed under government jurisdiction (headquartered in Kuala Lumpur). Its police force was headed by a commissioner and a chief of police. ... The first Federated States Police Commissioner was Captain H. C. Syers (superintendent of Selangor), moved the state police headquarters from Klang to Kuala Lumpur. ... Under Syers, the police changed; a blue uniform was introduced. State uniforms were differentiated by the shape of the button and badge. Syers reformed police administration in Perak. At that time the Perak contingent had 842 members, 15 European officers, 472 officers, Sikh and Pathan officers, 14 orderlies and 302 lower-ranking officers and Malay constables. In Selangor there were six European police officers, 32 Pathans and 500 lower-ranking officers and Malay constables. With the establishment of the Malay States Guides under Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker in 1896, the police force was increased to six infantry companies and two artillery companies (900 members)."// ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Royal_Malaysia_Police#Federated_Malay_States|"History of the Royal Malaysia Police: Federated Malay States"]]).
-==== 1897 (14 Julai): Terbunuh oleh Seladang Buruan ====
+===== 1897 (14 Julai): Terbunuh oleh Seladang Buruan =====
 //"Shortly before his death, Syers reported the excitement among the aborigines at Batu, Selangor, at the prospect of a hunt for seladang."// (Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, 2005: {{ :buku:nature-and-nation-jeyamalar-kathirithamby-wells.pdf ||}}[[https://www.niaspress.dk/book/nature-and-nation/|"Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia"]] ([[https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:857290/FULLTEXT01.pdf|PDF]]), m.s.194).
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 **Kanan**: Gambar warna: //"This seladang on display at the Royal Malaysia Police Museum is said to be the one that gored H.C. Syers to death in 1897"// (pseudanon @ Skyscraper City, Oct 3, 2017: {{ :laman:kuala_lumpur_old_pictorial_thread_page_256_skyscrapercity.pdf ||}}[[https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/kuala-lumpur-old-pictorial-thread.438753/page-256#post-142703753|"The grand opening of the KL-Klang railway"]]).
-Menurut sumber lain, H.C. Syers sendiri yang membunuh seladang itu, dan beliau terus dibawa pulang ke Kuala Lumpur untuk dikebumikan. Kepala seladang itu turut dibawa pulang, dan diletakkan di muzium, sebelum dipindahkan ke Selangor Club, sebelum akhirnya dibawa pulang ke England oleh balunya:-
+==== Sumber Lain ====
-//"Some thirty years back Captain Sayers, the late Commissioner of Police, Selangor, and the greatest Shikari Malaya has ever seen, was killed by a Seladang in the wilds of Pahang. There are various versions as to how Sayers came to meet his death at the hands of a Seladang, but I shall tell you what I heard from an old Malay Shikari at Kuala Krai Pahang, who accompanied Captain Sayers on his last and fateful shoot. I was always keen on visiting the spot where he was killed, so when stationed in the Temerloh District in Central Pahang, I looked up this old Malay at Kuala Krai and accompanied by him and a couple of my Forest Guards visited the area where poor old Sayers was killed. \\
+Berikut adalah kisah bekas pegawai perhutanan, Granville O'Hara, sebagaimana dilaporkan di dalam akhbar tahun 1931. Kisah berikut ini diceritakan kepadanya oleh malim Syers dan kawannya ketika itu, bernama Ma'ali (mungkin Mat Ali) yang tinggal di Kuala Krai (mungkin Kuala Krau), Temerloh. Menurutnya, Syers sendiri yang membunuh seladang itu, sejurus sebelum dibunuh olehnya. Mayat beliau terus dibawa pulang ke Kuala Lumpur untuk dikebumikan. Menurut O'Hara, kepala seladang itu turut dibawa pulang, dan diletakkan di muzium, sebelum dipindahkan ke Selangor Club, sebelum akhirnya dibawa pulang ke England oleh balunya:-
+//"Mr. Granville O'Hara's Lecture at Hu Yew Seah:- \\
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+Death of Well-Known Shikari Recalled. \\
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+Despite counter-attractions, a fairly large gathering was present at the Hu Yew Seah yesterday evening to hear a lecture on 'Some Peculiarities of Malayan Wild Animal Life' by Mr. G.M.O Hara, late of the Malayan Forest Service. \\
+\\
+For over an hour and a half Mr. O'Hara kept his audience interested with innumerable little anecdotes and amusing incidents connected with jungle life. The following are some excerpts from the lecture:-
+..... \\
+Some thirty years back Captain Sayers, the late Commissioner of Police, Selangor, and the greatest Shikari Malaya has ever seen, was killed by a Seladang in the wilds of Pahang. There are various versions as to how Sayers came to meet his death at the hands of a Seladang, but I shall tell you what I heard from an old Malay Shikari at Kuala Krai Pahang, who accompanied Captain Sayers on his last and fateful shoot. I was always keen on visiting the spot where he was killed, so when stationed in the Temerloh District in Central Pahang, I looked up this old Malay at Kuala Krai and accompanied by him and a couple of my Forest Guards visited the area where poor old Sayers was killed. \\
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 According to this old Malay, Sayers arrived at Kuala Krai with another friend - a Scotsman named MacKenzie. The next morning, accompanied by this old Malay Ma'ali and two other Malay trackers, they poled up the Sungei Krai from off the Pahang river and that afternoon camped on the bank. Early the next morning, having located a herd the previous afternoon it is allegged that Sayers, MacKenzie, Ma'ali and the two Malay gun-bearers went in quest of this herd, old Ma'ali leading the way. \\
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 (Sumber: Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 November 1931, Page 4: {{ :akhbar:pinangazette19311107-1-2-6.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette19311107-1.2.6|"The Origin of the Malay “Ronggeng”"]]).
-===== Peninggalan =====
+====== Peninggalan ======
 //"The Editor, as a personal friend of the late Capt. H.C. Syers, Commissioner of Police, F.M.S. has received from Dr. Travers, Kuala Lumpor, a valuable and appropriate memorial of that much regretted officer, who was killed in Pahang by a sladang last July while shooting in the ulu Telamong."// (The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 18 December 1897, Page 2: {{ :akhbar:singfreepressb18971218-1-2-7.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb18971218-1.2.7|"THE LATE CAPT.H.C. SYERS"]]).