There are various sources of documentation, with resources available to enable enquiries to be made that result in fruitful searches for families and friends of casualties of the Korean War.  If you have any enquiries for burial locations or Plaque Numbers of Australian, New Zealand and South African War Dead from the Korean War, please ask!

During the Korean War, 74 members of the Light Infantry (made up from the county regiments of Yorkshire (KOYLI), Shropshire (KSLI), Cornwall (DCLI ), Somerset (SLI), Oxford & Bucks (later to become part of the RGJ (Royal Green Jackets) and the Durham (DLI).  The county regiments amalgamated in 1968 to form the Light Infantry.

The first British casualties  of the Korean War were six deaths on board HMS Jamaica when she was fired upon by North Korean shore batteries on 8 July 1950.  The soldiers had went aboard as Ammunition Loaders for the Royal Navy in Hong Kong as a jaunt; of those six deaths; 2 were members of 1st Battalion The Middlesex Regiment (Corporal Stanley Long and Sergeant Bernard Finch) and the other three were members of 58th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery (Gunners's Ralph Barwick, Kenneth Jepson and Sergeant Frederick Mersh).  The sixth was Able Seaman JD Mawdsley of HMS Jamaica.  These casualties were all buried at sea from HMS Jamaica and are commemorated on the relevant Memorial Wall plaques (Plaques 3 and 4 for the Army personnel and Plaque 1 for the Royal Navy).  On 12 August 1950, there were 2 civilian/Press Corps deaths; Mr C Buckley - of the Daily Telegraph and Mr I Morrison of The Times.

I have records of 37, 60 and 117 persons who were listed as being from Wales, Ireland and Scotland (respectively)!

This web site is a purely unofficial one, and therefore the information contained therein, is not necessarily guaranteed to be accurate.  Information has been extracted and modified by using brochures and publications available within the public domain.

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I am an ex-soldier who served 23 years in the Armed Forces serving within the Light Infantry and Adjutant General's Corps, I have links within the military service/civil service and therefore have various sources of information available.

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In the period: 1st to 31st July 1953:  

23 UK service personnel are recorded as being killed in Korea during July 1953.  Three of those killed are buried in the British Commonwealth Cemetery in Yokohama, Japan, 17 are buried in the UN Cemetery in Pusan and the remaining three are listed as having No Known Grave.

 

 

Service Number

Rank

Surname

Initials

Date of Death

Age

Parent Regiment

Unit

Grave Plot

Grave Row

Grave Number

22644684

PTE

DEWAR

R

02 July 1953

20

BW

1 BW

39

12

3454

14189830

SGT

BURGESS

SW

08 July 1953

24

RF

1 RF

39

12

3456

22670851

PTE

WATSON

TE

10 July 1953

19

DWR

1 DWR

70

1

7741

22655268

PTE

ROBERTSON

Derek

11 July 1953

19

DWR

1 DWR

D

B

13

22546181

PTE

ROWSON

JH

11 July 1953

20

ACC

1 DLI

70

1

7743

22627461

PTE

CAIG

GR

12 July 1953

19

KINGS

1 KINGS

70

1

7744

 

LT

EVANS

AJD

15 July 1953

29

RN

HMS OCEAN

 No Known Grave 

407730

LT

ADAMS-ACTON

LS

16 July 1953

23

RNF

1 RNF

 No Known Grave 

22798232

LCPL

MALBON

G

16 July 1953

19

BW

1 BW

D

B

15

21002468

PTE

MULLIN

E

17 July 1953

27

RASC

EFI

70

1

7745

22596602

PTE

GARDINER

BF

17 July 1953

19

OXS&BUCKS LI

1 DLI

70

1

7748

22666816

PTE

MILLION

P

17 July 1953

19

DLI

1 DLI

70

2

7754

 

LT

THOMAS

KM

19 July 1953

28

RN

HMS OCEAN

  No Known Grave 

22728225

PTE

HEPPLE

A

20 July 1953

20

DWR

1 DWR

70

1

7747

22653161

PTE

ROBERTSHAW

JB

22 July 1953

19

KINGS

1 KINGS

70

1

7746

14477562

CPL

ROBINSON

J

22 July 1953

24

KINGS

1 KINGS

70

2

7756

22669897

PTE

STONE

AJ

22 July 1953

19

KINGS

1 KINGS

70

1

7749

22807419

SPR

FLETCHER

John

24 July 1953

19

RE

RE

D

B

14

22616694

CPL

DARBY

E

27 July 1953

21

RF

1 RF

70

1

7750

22687426

PTE

LOGAN

JW

27 July 1953

19

RS

1 RS

70

1

7752

22687451

PTE

STEWART

IM

27 July 1953

21

RS

1 RS

70

2

7753

14131386

CPL

OUGHTIBRIDGE

RK

29 July 1953

25

RAMC

RAMC

70

1

7751

22625108

PTE

WALLACE

IR

30 July 1953

21

RAOC

 

70

2

7755

 

 

According to United Nations figures, the United Kingdom casualty figures: 686 Killed, 2,498 Wounded, 1,102 Missing/Prisoner of War - Total: 4,286