West Australians Killed in the Korean War
The 23rd of July 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
On this day the West Australian servicemen who went to Korea, and did not return, will be recognized in their home state when the Perth Korean War Memorial in Kings Park is unveiled.
I am interested in the stories of these West Australians. I am not a military historian, but an ordinary West Australian who became interested in the West Australian servicemen who served and died in Korea after visiting the United Nations Military Cemetery in Busan, South Korea.
There are other places where these servicemen are remembered. The Virtual War Memorial Australia has stories of some of these servicemen. However, most of these West Australians have only very brief details recorded at www.vwma.org.au. Often these servicemen were very young, and many left behind parents and siblings rather than wives and children to remember them 70 years on.
What I
plan to do on this site is to publish a biography of each of these men, gathering
the information that is available into one place. This is my effort to ensure
that in this year of the 70th
anniversary of the cessation of hostilities the memories of these men live
on.
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