Korea

[Dave322]

I have been asked a question by a local lad who wants to know what Battalions served in Korea.
Can anyone help please?

[Braz]

There was on RRW Site RHQ one, a Book on Korea. It listed every Regiment and it's Casualties.

[Bob Bacon]

Below are listed the units known to have fought in Korea, the entries in brackets are the Emblazoned Battle Honours awarded. For a full list, click here

1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)(Korea 1952-3)
lst Bn The Middlesex Regiment ( Aug 1950-May 1951 )
1st King's Dragoon Guards
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoons Guards (The Hook 1952; Korea 1951-2)
7th Queen's Own Hussars
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (Sequl, Hill 237, Imjin, Kowang-San, Korea 1950-51)
1st Royal Tank Regiment (Korea 1951-3)
7th Royal Tank Regiment 'C' Sqn ( Nov 1950-Oct 1951 )
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Sequl, Imjin, Kowang-San, Korea 1950/51)
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (Korea 1952-3)
King's Regiment (Liverpool)(The Hook 1953; Korea 1952-3)
1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment (Korea 1951-2), On Hill 355 CO CAPT Dellar S Company, Mortar Platoon 1951
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
The Devonshire Regiment
The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
The East Yorkshire Regiment, The Duke of York's Own
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Royal Leicestershire Regiment (Maryang-San, Korea 1951-2)
The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
The Cheshire Regiment
King's Own Scottish Borderers Kowang-San; Maryang-San; Korea 1951-2)
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Gloucestershire Regiment (Hill 327; Imjin; Korea 1950-51)
The East Surrey Regiment
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Duke of Wellingtons' Regiment (West Riding) (The Hook 1953; Korea 1952-3)
The Border Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment
The Royal Hampshire Regiment
The North Staffordshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment
The Dorset Regiment
The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
The Welch Regiment (Korea 1951-2)
Brigade HQ, defence deployment platoon, July 1952-July-1953
The Royal Welch Fusiliers About 105 Fusiliers went to Korea as reinforcements to the Welch regiment, a further draft of 30 RWF went to the royal fusiliers in korea 1952./font>
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (The Hook 1952; Korea 1952-3), Lieutenant-Colonel David Rose commanding.
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
The 1st Battalion Essex Regiment Clementy Smith Commanding Officer
The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
The Northamptonshire Regiment
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
King's Shropshire Light Infantry (Kowang-San; Hill 227 1; Korea 1951-2)
Middlesex Regiment (The Die Hards)(Duke of Cambridge's Own)(Naktong Bridgehead; Chongju; Chongcon II; Chuam Ni; kapyong-Chon; Kapyong; Korea 1950-51), Colonel Andrew Man Commanding. (Also Part of 27th British Commonwealth Brigade, see below)
The Wiltshire Regiment (The Duke of Edinburgh's)
The York and Lancaster Regiment
1st Btn The Durham Light Infantry 1952-1953
REME attached 1st Btn The Durham Light Infantry 1952-1953
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
The Seaforth highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
The Gordon Highlander
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) (Pakchon and Korea 1950-51). The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders received the South Korean Presidential Citation for holding 'a critical sector of the Naktong River during the height of the enemy's attack, and for its participation in the general offensive of 16 September'.
The Royal Ulster Rifles (Seoul, Imjin, Korea 1950-51)
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment
The King's Royal Rifle Corps