BRITISH TROOPS TO REST
DIVISION MOVES TO RESERVE
SEOUL, Februray 15. The British Commonwealth Division has been withdrawn from the Korean battleline to reserve positions for a well-earned rest. The withdrawal was one of the biggest removal operations of the Korean war, as months’of static warfare had immobilised masses of equipment. General James van Fleet, before he retired from the Sth Army command, said that the division had earned a respite, for it had spent two very hard winters in the line. The infantrymen were the last to leave. They filed out of their forward trenches as the .relieving troops marched in. The newcomers peered with amazement at the deep-dug trenches and dug-outs. A United States major said: “I had always heard that the British dug in, but I never guessed it looked like this.”
A sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers said it was like breaking up their old home, as he unstrapped the regimental colours from the flagpole outside the lavishly ornamented unit headquarters.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 9
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