HMAS Sydney, while escorting HMAS Platypus and the 6 J class submarines from England to Australia, was asked by the civilian authorities to assist in quelling civil disturbances. Capt Cayley promptly supplied landing parties at Singapore and Penang, and as an additional means of quietening unrest, is said to have ridden by rickshaw, in full uniform, through the streets of Penang.
Australian Naval History on 19 June 1919
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