A Forgotten British War The Accounts of Korean War Veterans

This book presents oral histories from the last surviving UK veterans of the Korean War. With the help of the UK National Army Museum and the British Korean Society, this book collects nearly twenty testimonials of UK veterans of the Korean War. Many only teenagers when mobilized, these veterans att...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cullinane, Michael Patrick (Editor), Johnston-White, Iain (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Lance Corporal Mike Mogridge, First Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment
  • 3. Private Alan Maggs, First Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
  • 4. Staff Sargent Alan Guy, Royal Army Medical Corps
  • 5. Private Arnold Schwartzman, First Battalion, The Royal Sussex
  • 6. Private Chris Garside, First Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
  • 7. Brigadier Brian Parritt, Twentieth Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
  • 8. Corporal Derek Alden, Corps of Royal Engineers
  • 9. Private Edgar Green, Twenty-seventh British Commonwealth Brigade, Middlesex Regiment
  • 10. Rifleman Anthony James White, Royal Ulster Rifles
  • 11. Lieutenant John Lane, Fourteenth Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
  • 12. Corporal Jim Tait, Royal Military Police
  • 13. Radio Operator Roy Painter, First and Third Battalions, Royal Australia Regiment
  • 14. Private Jim Bridges, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
  • 15. Fusilier Cecil Moule, First Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
  • 16. Gunner William Shutt, Twentieth Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
  • 17. Second-Lieutenant Sir William Purves, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
  • 18. Private Walter Coote, Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment
  • 19. Sergeant Raymond Rogers, South Staffordshire Regiment
  • 20. Glossary of Oral Histories