John Pound served in the Royal Navy on a C-Class Destroyer – HMS Charity. The ships primary role was to patrol the west coast. It was a busy time and John recounts it well.

Pageen Hill had a remarkable young life working in the Red Cross. She travelled to some seriously inhospitable places

Stan served onboard the carrier HMS Unicorn and shares some nice photos from his service.

On the last day of the war, Bernard witnessed an amazing moment. Check his ace photo of his tank.

Unexpectedly drafted into the Catering Corps  in January 1952, Albert Gibson wonders if he’ll ever see any action and put his name down for Korea. In April he sailed out of Liverpool to Korea where he discovers he is still a soldier first and foremost. Albert was an initially unwilling recruit to the Army Catering Corps wanting to join the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry , but on being posted  he was on attachement to to the 61st Light Regiment Royal Artillery. From the smell at disembrkement to the odd from of transport to the front,  he describes the basic living conditions of an army camp and cook house and recalls fondly his Korean assistant, Jonna, who twice saved his life. He explains how he regularly served 45 men a roast dinner on the edge of no-man's Land. He describes how the camp got the nickname 'Charlie Sound' and how sound was used to pinpoint enemy guns. Even in his role in the Catering Corps, Albert was still a solider. He describes an enemy attack on the camp. Having been trained as a Bren gunner, when the regular gunner is killed right next to him, Albert is forced to take over. In another incident he finds three unexploded mortuary bombs outside the cookhouse. He shares his memories of the Battle of The Hook at Samichen River, the last of four battles that took place from 1952-3. The battle was fought from 24-26th July 1953 and the armistice, ending the war, was signed on the following day, 27th July 1953. Once the ceasefire had been declared Albert  stayed on for a number of months feeding the men, first at camp and later at Headquarters. Many years later he returned to Korea, in a museum he is approached by a young South Korean girl who says 'thenk you for saving my country'  brining tears to Albert's eyes.    

At just fifteen years of age, Michael Meller worked as a laboratory technician helping on the trials of High-frequency direction radio. It was also known as the Huff-Duff system. Post-war he was an MP in Hong Kong where amongst other duties, he did he best to keep Korean war legend Bill Speakman VC on the straight and narrow!

One of the first veterans to really spark my imagination in the Korean war. And instrumental in helping us to launch the Korean war educational project in the North West. A lovely man.