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The National Service Years 1945-59

Korea 1953-1954

Going Home


1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, Korea.  National Servicemen going home for demobilisation, from Korea, 1953.
Accession Number: KO2091/05


1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment Korea, National Servicemen (Number 19 Group) going home for demobilisation, from Korea, 1954.
Accession Number: KO2226/01


“The day I left Korea for Kure, Japan, to wait for the ship home, September, 1954” Private Thomas Lowe, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment. Corporal Atkinson is waving from the rear of the vehicle.
Accession Number: KO2668/03

 

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