Pages 1-6 – Michael Hickey – ‘Memories of the Korean War ’

After I have spoken you will get an exceptionally realistic account, from John Bowler, of what the Korean War was like at the sharp end. As an infantryman he saw at very close range the violence that only the infantry know, for it falls to them to take part in close combat. I was not an infantryman; I had been commissioned in December 1949 from Sandhurst into the Royal Army Service Corps, the forb...