KOREA 1950-53


5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

2nd Lieutenant Andrew J.E. Albrecht - killed in action - 1952. Aged 21.
Memorial at War Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy - "In loving memories of 2nd Lieut. Andrew J.E. Albrecht. 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. R.M.A. Sandhurst 1949-51. Killed in action in Korea 20th June 1952 aged 21 years."


8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

Lieutenant C.G. Alexander - killed - 3rd January 1951. Aged 22.

Captain D.L. Astley-Cooper - killed in action - 3rd January 1951. Aged 30.

Lieutenant D.F.P.C. Probyn - killed - 8th February 1951. Aged 24.

Lieutenant J.C.F. Walker - killed in action - 1951


Royal Artillery

343194 Captain R.D. Fleming - killed in action - 3rd January 1951. Aged 28. 45 Field Regiment

134761 Major W.G. Harris, M.C. - killed - 2nd June 1953.

234300 Captain L.P. Hicks - killed - 31st March 1953. 61 Light Regiment

373004 Captain W.M. Holman M.B.E. - died - 3rd January 1951. Aged 29. 45 Field Regiment

304958 Lieutenant A.B.S. Hudson - killed in action - 23rd April 1951. Aged 26. 45 Field Regiment (Imjin River battle)

303302 Captain A.V. Jenkins - died of wounds - 14th September 1951. 45 Field Regiment

249028 Captain J.L. Lane - killed in action - 4th January 1951. Aged 27. 170 Mortar Battery

411627 Lieutenant A.J. Measor - killed in action - 13th July 1952. 14 Field Regiment

349508 Captain W.M. Miller - killed - 1st March 1953. 20 Field Regiment

393380 Lieutenant J.R. O'Brien - killed - 8th December 1950. Aged 22. 45 Field Regiment

134093 Captain John Kidd Thompson, M.C. - killed in action - 23rd June 1952. 14 Field Regiment
Memorial at All Saints Church, Rothbury - "In loving memory of our son John Kidd Thompson, MC Captain, The Royal Artillery, Airbourne Anti-Tank Regiment who gave his life serving with the United Nations in Korea 23rd June 1952."

378689 Captain J.B. Warren - killed in action - 23rd September 1951. 170 Mortar Battery

261440 Captain R.F. Washbrook - died as a P.O.W. - 21st November 1951. 45 Field Regiment


Royal Engineers

Captain H. Bayton-Evans - died of wounds - 1951

Captain P. Crofton - killed in action - 1952

Lieutenant K.W. Eastgate - killed in action - 22nd April 1951. Aged 22.

2nd Lieutenant John Kinglsey Anson Firth - killed in action - 1st December 1951. Aged 21.

Lieutenant P.M. Park - died of wounds - 1952

Lieutenant G.B. Robinson - killed in action - 1951

Lieutenant B. Swinbanks - died of wounds - 26th April 1951. Aged 23.


Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Lieutenant Leo Samuel Adams-Acton, MC - Executed while trying to escape a POW Camp, 1953
Memorial at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland - "In proud memory of the gallantry of Lieutenant L.S. Adams-Acton MC, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, seconded Special Air Service 1951. Missing, presumed killed after his escape from POW Camp in North Korea 1953."
In memory of Lt. Leo Samuel Adams-Acton, MC attached to the American Special Forces. He was executed by Communist Troops while trying to escape as a Prisoner of War."


2nd Lieutenant G.M. FitzGibbon - killed in action - 3rd January 1951.
Aged 22.

Lieutenant-Colonel K.O.N. Foster, D.S.O., O.B.E. - killed in action - 25th April 1951. Aged 44.

Major C.C.G. Milward - killed - 3rd January 1951. Aged 42.


Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

2nd Lieutenant C.R.P.M. Hoare - killed in action - 1952

2nd Lieutenant Robin H. Ruhemann - killed in action - 1953


The King's Liverpool Regiment

Lieutenant V.A. Dunlop - killed - 25th April 1951. (att. Royal Ulster Rifles). Aged 31.

2nd Lieutenant A.J. McBride - killed in action - 1952/3 ?


Royal Norfolk Regiment

Lieutenant John Reedham Erskine Berney - killed in action - 1952


Suffolk Regiment

Captain N.A.M. Balders - died of wounds - 20th February 1951 (att. Royal Ulster Rifles) . Aged 28.


East Yorkshire Regiment

Lieutenant D.A. White - died of wounds - 1951 (att. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers)


Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment

Lieutenant Douglas A. Simcox - killed in action - 16th February 1951 (att. Gloucestershire Regiment). Age 23.


Royal Leicestershire Regiment

2nd Lieutenant P.J. Affentranger - killed in action - 1951

2nd Lieutenant J.A. Godfrey - killed in action - 1951

Lieutenant F.B. Millington - killed in action - 23rd April 1951 (att. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers). Aged 24.


Cheshire Regiment

2nd Lieutenant George David Rudge - killed in action - 25th April 1951 (att. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers). Aged 20.


Gloucestershire Regiment

108174 Major Patrick Arthur Angier - killed in action - 23rd April 1951. Aged 30. (Post. MID).
Memorial at St. Marys, Woodlands St. Marys, Berkshire - "This garden also commemorates his elder brother Patrick Arthur Angier - Major 1st Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment. Born 24th October 1920. killed in action with his regiment at the Battle of the Imjin River in Korea on St. Georges Day 1951."

397831 Lieutenant H.C. Cabral - died as a P.O.W. - 27th November 1951. Aged . (Post. MID)

407902 2nd Lieutenant J.M. Maycock - killed in action - 23rd April 1951. Aged 21.

380896 Captain R.A. St.M Reeve-Tucker - killed in action - 25th April 1951. Aged 28.

40378 2nd Lieutenant Terence Edward Waters, G.C. - died as a POW - 1st June 1951 (att. from West Yorkshire Regiment).
Aged 22. (Posthumous MID). George Cross awarded for gallantry as a POW.

3655080 Lieutenant Philip Kenenth Edward Curtis, V.C. - killed in action - 23rd April 1951 (att. from Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry). Aged 24.


Duke of Wellington's Regiment

2nd Lieutenant P.M. Guthrie - killed in action - 1953

2nd Lieutenant E.C Kirk - killed in action - 1953


Dorset Regiment

Lieutenant J.A.C. Milner - killed in action - 4th April 1951 (att. Argyl & Sutherland Highlanders). Aged 22.


The Welch Regiment

2nd Lieutenant S.C.J. Burgess - killed in action - 11th January 1952. He was shot while on patrol out from the Hook on the west bank of the Samichon.


Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

420295 2nd Lieutenant D.A.S. Nicoll - killed in action - 8th August 1952. Killed in a minefield.

2nd Lieutenant A.C. Rattray, M.C. - killed in action - 8th May 1953

400037 Lieutenant Alexander Renny-Tailyour - killed in action - 25th July 1952. 'D' Company. Killed while leading a patrol.


Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Major J.A. Tresawana - killed in action - 1953 (att. Durham Light Infantry)


The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)

2nd Lieutenant J.C. Tribbeck - killed in action - 1952 (att. Leicestershire Regiment)


The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Lieutenant J.W.H. Lanyon - killed in action - 1952

Lieutenant A.G. Pack, MC - killed in action - 1952

Major A.R. Tait - killed in action - 1951


Middlesex Regiment

Lieutenant J.C. Bucknall - killed in action - 20th September 1950. Aged 22.

2nd Lieutenant E.W. Martin - died of wounds - 7th June 1951. Aged 21.

Lieutenant H.St.C. Reilly - killed in action - 11th January 1951. Aged 24.

Lieutenant G. Sander - killed in action - 30th October 1950. Aged 25.


York & Lancaster Regiment

Lieutenant L.D. Foxton - killed in action - 1951 (att. Yorks & Lancaster Regt)


Durham Light Infantry

Major C.P. Donoghue - killed in action - 1952/3 ?


Seaforth Highlanders

2nd Lieutenant J.R.K. Doig - killed in action - 18th/19th November 1952. Battle of the Hook. (att. Black Watch)

Lieutenant D.A. Haugh - killed in action - 8th May 1953 (att. Black Watch)


The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

P420642 2nd Lieutenant J.C.M. McGuigan - killed in action - 4th November 1952 (att. Black Watch)


The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Captain C.N.A. Buchanan - died of wounds - 6th September 1950. Aged 23.

2nd Lieutenant M.D.W. Buchanan - killed in action - 23 September 1950. Aged 21.

2nd Lieutenant M.J.D. Cawthorn - killed in action - 4th April 1951. Aged 21.

Major Kenneth Muir, V.C. - killed in action - 23 September 1950. Killed near Songju. Awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Aged 38.

Major I.D.M.C.N. Reith - killed 27th October 1950. Aged 32.


Royal Army Medical Corps

Captain G.H. Beith - killed in action - 1951


Royal Army Ordnance Corps

2nd Lieutenant J.O.M. Lock - killed in action - 29th November 1950 (att. Middlesex Regt.) Aged 22.

2nd Lieutenant G.A. White - killed in action - 22nd September 1950 (att. Middlesex Regt.) Aged 22.


Royal Electrical And Mechanical Engineers

Captain C. Hesketh - killed - 8th January 1951. Aged 30.


Royal Ulster Rifles

Major C.A.H.B. Blake - killed in action - 3rd January 1951. Aged 39.

2nd Lieutenant G.V.B. Prescott-Westcar - killed in action - 3rd January 1951. Aged 21.

Major J.K.H. Shaw, D.S.O., M.C. - killed in action - 25th April 1951. Aged 34.


Captain Ralph Nicholas Parkinson-Cumine, MC - Royal Marines.
Memorial at St. Annes Church, Killough, Down - "In loving memory of Captain Ralph Nicholas Parkinson-Cumine, MC Royal Marines aged 28 years missing in action, presumed killed 29th November 1950 while serving in 41 Independent Commando in Korea."


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