When I was first on the VC10, one of the simulator instructors was an ex-Hornet pilot. He told a tale once of spotting a flight of RAAF Sabres below him. So he dived down on them at a prodigious rate of knots, feathered one engine and then went past them rolling as he did so.
From Wiki:
In 1951, considerable numbers of Hornets were redeployed from Fighter Command to the squadrons of the Far East Air Force (FEAF).[29] Along with 45 Sqn, 33 and 80 squadrons participated in combat operations during the Malayan Emergency
On 21 May 1955, the last operational Hornet sortie was flown;[31] by mid-1956, all Hornets had been recorded as having been withdrawn from operational service.
The RAAF operated the CA-27 from 1954 to 1971. The Aircraft Research and Development Unit (AFDU) received the first example in August 1954; re-delivered to No. 2 (Fighter) Operational Training Unit (2 OTU) in November.
From 1958 to 1960, CAC Sabres of No. 78 Wing RAAF (78 Wing), comprising 3 Sqn and 77 Sqn, undertook several ground attack sorties against communist insurgents in the Federation of Malaya, during the Malayan Emergency.