Click images to enlarge Click images to enlarge"Long may your standard fly."
Veterans of the Korean War united at Fulwood Barracks in Preston yesterday for a church service to mark
the
dedication of the Red Rose branch's new standard.
More than 100 people attended the chapel service, which saw the worn standard officially
replaced, followed by a short parade.
Members of the Red Rose branch had the support of representatives across the country as
they took part in the ceremony
and
remembered those friends and comrades who did not return from the 1950-1953 Korean war.
Syd Wood, 72, of Willow Green, Ashton, a kingsman in the King's Liverpool Regiment
who went
to Korea during national service, explained how the old standard was handed in before the
new one was dedicated.
After the service Red Rose branch member Richard Clementson, 72, from Fulwood,
who was in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, attached to the first battalion of the
King's Liverpool Regiment during the Korean War, looking after all the vehicles and transport, said:
"I
was in Korea for 10 months from January 53 to October 53."
Col George Gadd, OBE, national chairman of the British Korean Veterans Association,
described the new standard
as a
rebirth for the branch and told members "long may your standard fly".
Some refer to the Korean War as the "forgotten war," but he said:
"There's nobody here who has ever forgotten. People outside might have done, but we have not."
10 April 2006
This article, written by Emillie Bradshaw and published in the
Lancashire Evening Post, Preston
was originally copied and republished on the Cumbria Branch BKVA website their Webmaster, Marj Harvey