A bugler from the Dorset Regiment sounds the Last Post at the gravesides of seven British ...

Accession Number MELJ0751
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

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.

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