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Dyer
served with the 1st Bn Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea and fought
at the Battle of the Imjin River in April 1951. Here he
recounts his escape from a Chinese encirclement on the back of
a tank.
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Albert
Tyas,
who served with the 1st Bn Royal Ulster Rifles, also fought at
the Battle of the Imjin River. Unlike Dyer, his attempt to
escape was unsuccessful, and he was captured by the Chinese on
25 April 1951. Tyas spent the next two years as a POW at Camp
1 Choksong in North Korea, and was released from captivity in
1953. Here he describes how the Chinese attempted to indoctrinate
him and his fellow POWs with Communist politics and
ideals.
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in Korea had to contend with the dual problem of adverse
weather and poor living conditions, particularly after 1951
when they were reduced to living in trenches. One of the main
problems was keeping warm during the harsh Korean winters. Alberic
Stacpoole
served with the 1st Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment in Korea,
1952-1953. Here he describes how troops learned to cope with
the freezing conditions.
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Vermin
was another problem of trench life. Bryan
Webster
served with A Coy, 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers in Korea, 1952-1953.
Here he recounts the night when he discovered a rat in his
bedding.
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| Ronald
Cashman,
an Australian NCO, served with the 3rd Bn Royal Australian
Regiment in Korea, 1951-1953. Here he describes a tussle with
three Chinese soldiers in a fox-hole.
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Dennis
Page
served with 1st Bn Black Watch in Korea, 1952. Here he
recounts how he was wounded in the lung during the Battle of
the Hook, November 1952. In 1993 a piece of shrapnel which had
remained in his lung since 1952 was removed. Mr Page has
kindly lent this shrapnel for display at the Museum, where it
can be seen in the 'Voices from Korea' exhibition.
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African officer John
Howe
flew Mustangs with 2 Sqdn, South African Air Force in Korea
from September to June 1951. Here he describes the nature of
the operations he carried out including low-level
reconnaissance and ground attack.
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Norman
Potter
served with the 1st Bn Black Watch in Korea, 1952. Here
he describes his feelings on leaving Korea in 1953 and on
returning 43 years later in 1996.
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If you wish to
listen to more of the Sound Archive's Korean War interviews or
any of our other recordings, the archive is open to all, free of
charge, from 10.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday to Friday (see Contact
Details for further information). For details on our
recently published catalogue The Korean War 1950-1953, see our Catalogue
page.
The Korean War
exhibition Voices from Korea
will be on show until 2003.
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