Memorial To Koi can War Dead Dedicated

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 10

Memorial To Koi can War Dead Dedicated

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) PUSAN (South Korea), May 24.

A memorial bearing the names of 387 Commonwealth and South African servicemen who died in the Korean War and are buried in unknown and unmarked graves was dedicated in the United Nations cemetery near Pusan today.

A retired British lieutenantgeneral, Sir William Pike, at the unveiling ceremony said: “We are as proud of the farflung graves of these our sons who died for the United Nations as we are of those who fought and died over the centuries in the service of their king and country.”

Of the men named on the memorial, 301 were from Brit-

tain, 44 from Australia, 16 from Canada, tjo from New Zealand and 21 from South Africa. The guard of honour was mounted by 140 members of the First Battwon, Durham Light InfantryJtjth representative detachments of the Royal Navy, 1\ irines and Air Force and th six-Australian armed forces re. ' t Wreaths wc • laid by Sir William Ki St IPak, director of the Korear Veterans’ Administration, t p British Ambassador (Sir .Walter Godfrey), the Au tfalian Ambassador (Mr R A. Peachey), the New Zeak d Ambassadordesignate (M G. V. Scott), Captain Cogfi of the Canadian Navy aric Irigadier G. T. Moll, of Soutl Africa.

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