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Major Charles Mitchell wrote on 10 May 1951 from a hospital in Taegu, T[hank] G[od] they are now forming a Commonwealth Division so we should be better off. We always suffer from our allies the Koreans who run away and let the Chinese in behind us - the same thing happened in Jan. last when Colin Milward was killed.' Mitchell added three weeks later, 'The Commonwealth Div has now been formed TG and things should go better. The Div Comd is a first-class chap who can handle Americans!!
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Forgotten Heroes
A lot of public emotion has focused recently upon the predicament of British troops fighting in Iraq, and their casualties. Half a century ago, another British army fought far from home in another controversial cause. It suffered far more grievously, and received vastly less recognition, than its modern counterpart.
An officer of the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers who fought in Korea in 1951 has recently edited and published a collection of his fellow officers' letters from the battlefield, together with the unit's war diary*. For anyone tempted to suppose that the modern British soldier gets a raw d...See the full content of this document
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