Event    From 25/6/1950  To 27/7/1953

Korean War

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Korea

This war, the first UN action against aggression, has not officially ended but a ceasefire has held since 1953.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Korean War

Commemorated ati

Fleet Air Arm

This bronze figure represents Daedalus, the Greek guy who crafted wings for h...

Read More

Korean War memorial

The phrase "distant obligation..." references a cabinet meeting on 25 June 19...

Read More

St Sepulchre's Church - Royal Fusiliers

A large board in the garden announces: The Royal Fusiliers (City of London R...

Read More

Other Subjects

Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH

Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH

Naval officer.  Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.  See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
L. V. G. Brooker

L. V. G. Brooker

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Rifleman Robert Henry Charles Dixon

Rifleman Robert Henry Charles Dixon

Robert Henry Charles Dixon was born on 13 October 1889 in Walworth, London, one of the five children of Robert Dixon (b.1862) and Annie Dixon née Cromwell (b. c1869). His birth was registered in th...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
G. T. Bishop

G. T. Bishop

Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Jeffrey Vernon Young

Lance Corporal Jeffrey Vernon Young

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this soldier: Born Bridgend, Glamorganshire. In early 1979 he married Judith Nash in Ogwr, Mid Glamorgan and they had two children. He died a da...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Guy's Hospital

Guy's Hospital

Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 that the first sixty patients were admitted.  Aim 25 have a good summary of the history.  Guy's and St Thomas' are consi...

Place, Medicine

13 memorials