Accession Number | MELJ0751 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base |
Maker |
Meldrum, Donald Albert (Tim) |
Place made | Korea: Pusan |
Date made | c 25 March 1955 |
Conflict |
Korea, 1950-1953 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
A bugler from the Dorset Regiment sounds the Last Post at the gravesides of seven British ...
Description
A bugler from the Dorset Regiment sounds the Last Post at the gravesides of seven British soldiers who died in the Korean War. The men's bodies, together with that of one of one Australian soldier, 2400018 Private George Angus Paterson, were recently handed over by the Communists (North Koreans), for reburial in the United Nations Military Cemetery at Pusan, Korea. The seven British dead were buried alongside each other in the British plot which contains the bodies of more then eight hundred British servicemen who died during the Korean fighting. The cemetery stands on a hill just outside the town. War dead from 22 United Nations countries are buried there.