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My Korea Notebook Design for living
THE 29th Brigade left
T
a lot of dead - Ulsters, gunners and 8th Hussara mostly in what has be- known as "Happy Valley,"
"northwest of Scoul
come
ad-
Ramc
the U.N. forces When vanced up to the Han River
these in March units fotind themacives near "Happy Valley."
again
They decided to search their, buried
By J. L. HAYS
And
Eman
cors of Korean cottages (the
peasants
had been unable to graves in the frozen ground), so that padres Peter
Hathaway, of the
Ben Wrigley,
Ulsters, and
of the ath
Hussars, could hold burial
services.
It was not a pleasant busl- ness. Rardened company manders
to
prepared
Brigadier Tom Brodin
Try
for usking
com detali
men.
But ordered: volunteers first."
So they asked for volunteers, And every man in every unit stepped forward.
every
stepped
forward ---
and soldiers of most other con- by the Japanese x Burma, tingents serving in Korea gel Hongkong and Malaya.
U.S. Army rates of pay, in dolters.
ences
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ů
There were companies of the Middlesex, bedraggled, slush-
parnding
-by a man
who made millions
T 30, William Hesketh
A Lover
• ort
Thenceforward there
stained, exhausted,
hard-working regular entries under "gymię before their Regimental Ser- son of a Bolton grocer, was insties,"
"Sam" Weller. geant - Major They
Thes on September 23, for instance, we earn that he ros
in fact, preparing so successful at his father's
with into business →→→
£60,000 cilmb waiting. socapital-that he thought of al 0.40, had one could bath, 120
retiring.
man
to American trucks take them farther south.
Most ather troops in Korea,
Then this squat equally tired, equally dirty, merely ombled
with the penetrating blue 12lb. dumbbell, trucks and climbed over to aboard. Not so the Middlesex eyes. discovered a way to They paraded as platoons and new riches, "mbussed" as platoons.
twings of his 711b, club, 20' of the the 5lb., 35 jerks with
20 with tho b., 80 thigh exerc.ses, and
100 calt exercises,
His usual routine was break- Up to them
them in his
jeep came He hit upon the idea of an American regimental
com-selling wrapped and brand- fost at 7:30, work at 8:15, lunch mender (brigadier)
D -and
ed soap-not just nameless at one o'clock, hement 0, dinner good one, too,
at 7, with perhaps one glass of He ordered hir
Binba. sorgrant driver to hall.
wine and the second cigar for And this is what he said: Listen to me, Fergeant. Poy attention-and don't ever get this. This is how. soldiers Arc made. And
there is no other way."
A
for
Ile formed his soap frm the day, and bed at 11.30. in 1884, and in two years · All deviations were recorded. could claim its product had the largest sale in the world. He banished Monday morning feeling by rising at 0.30. 1lig Always a faddist about latest bed-time was 60 minutes
TAKCEPT for the Centurion his health, Lever now felt past midnight,
tank. we have used no he should imposo
Koren. But aclf-discipline to
conwithstand the de- 26-pounder Arld-
weapons in Koreans were the most cruel t of the guards provided by the as far as our troops are
Special Japs.
"Punishment cerned, the Baltallons"
were formed from gun is still the best of its clamands of work.
in the world: and is the
He kept a day- GAIN and again in my Note- them.
machine-gun.
to-day record o! book I see flattering refer- Fusilier Alee Tinsley worked Bren light
There is a lot of talk about his habits. to the Aussies.
coolle at Lchon docks for Tough กจ A
Korean standardisation these days. and cocky, they are the finest three years....under
The troops think that much The Arst entry in fighting battalion in Koren. In guards.
for Journni, Like
and of the standardisation suggested his itack they
Ilis views are superb.
process-August 1, 1801, a "one-way only"
American weapons records that he hud THERE will be great delight the Turks, they really do seem Koreans are not fit for publien- towards
to like a fight for its own sake. Han in this newspaper.
Three glasses ol in 20th Brigade
But Aler served a Bren In the about Their glory is action at close Brigadier Tom Brodie's newly-a
quarters, using the bayonet. cause of the United Nations. awarded D.S.O.
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But good as they are I would wiped out a lot of old still take, sng, the Glosters these last few months."
HON first sight
the Argylls, in prolonged and monotonous defence on a
wel Monday morning, when the rations had not arrived. radios were not working s everything was going wrong.
a
By October
he
had cut out nimost, all drink, but ho allowed himself two glasses of wine at a shooting party and P half glass when staying at the Grand Hotel, London.
On the Nile he 18 indulged in cigarettes In one day, but appears 10 have done penance
On August 14 he consumed that Christmas Day by
only
"I've scores
half
Lord Leverhulme They would not like to see champagne for din- 25-pounder and the Brenner and one cigar. the
American for their swapped cquivalents.
And, after all is said and done,
are chups They
who have to fire them in helion.
+
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going
A gloss of sherry, two to bed at 0.30-with no drink.
of Sauterne, on of cham- or tobacco. glasses pagne, and ene of port, and
two stokred
clears, but the occasion. was a dinner party, Korea? Well,
For the rest of that month he cigarettes, not something took no spirits, no morale is
two smokes of his the like
badge or a medal ribbon and only which the chaps wear.
MORALE in strangely
her al- the THE British soller
ways been low to hele his and
ix enemies. There Jittle vocal abusz cf Chinzar
The beauty of our widely ns- sembled Commonwealth Divi stuur is its blend of all the best
characteristics of ly
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...
3
~ OCCIDE the character of
the Chinese is rapid-it is a warm, silent maging
pipe..
On September 13 he writes:
By 1893 he was taking morn- ing walk, usually before break- fast from two to ten miles. and was checking
up on his cirese occupations.
His drinking becam; progred-
with
the spirits
22, 1897, the Queen's Diamond Jubilce, he rejoiced with three glasses of wine.
Now, Brodle is not the sort af ynker ofBeer, you would ex- prett
to be with ཀཱཐུས།1! the cynical, hil-before" Re- servists of the Glosters, Royal, Northumberland
Fusiliers, 8th Hussars and Royal Ulster Rides, Tall and good-looking, he is bit of a martinet, rarely un- bends. He swishes a riding crop
in Koren with individual (be arrived
of abstracts of humour, dis- selection of polu
polo mallets)
and British fighting men-dogged- clean fighter, and a brave one.
ripline, training, determination "I practise with dumbbells of sively les, always beautifully dressed
BESS. discipline, experience. Execpt for a few Isolated in end courage. Most of the time. 12b, and alb, cach, and Indian column a total blank, but on
with Brilish troops, clubs of 7141b. and 51b, cach. June always (British warin and riding humour, courage, dash and neidents, all in the heat of bat-
tic, he lakes prisoners
grousing. Also free leg exercises." and it is blanketed by boots, now and then) and is spot of plain savagery.
is there gives what attention he can to But it is all right. never without his red-banded
cur wounded.
But I did promise the troops Our men are more disgusted not to write the "usual muck" the fullness of time, THE smartest unit in Koren. is
exhilarated by *****the of his wary old the Goth Indian Fiel Am- than in the hearts
(their
the 20th Brigade, soldiers, grudging
and way deepened into liking, 18ting in is a volunteer and a para- like Chinese system of attack which has ene
chutist. to unqualified affection.
They wear maroon ing to
on other already suffered front, regardless of 2,000 dead, killed and missing. For Brodie, has guts and I berets or pugarces and British narrow
15 terribly tired. use the word with all its old-
Jungle green or battle dress losse
zaw two Once
Ulsters fashioned flavour.
grand
Wouldn't you be tired? There and gallant They
carrying in a wounded Chinese, is no
no such
thing ns being in comrades.
called him "Joe" and Before 29th Brigade arrived. They
ways guerillas to worry about; the dressing station, and If there are no guerillas when the battle-stained Middle- rave hlin cigarettes, They it reserve in Korea. There are al- 10 Brede
sex, Australians and Argyll him at When,
there is the 10 after
were wearing odds and ends of told him not to worry, emptied then
cigarette packels and savage British and American uniform, their
threat continuously
implied by the known weaknesses of some of our depleted we used the sadly
to take Americans moved off.
Behind them the Chinese Alles. Fuziliers and Ulsters staggered round to the Indians to show out of the Imjin River battle, them what Britis soldlers whimpered like a baby, feebly Always there is the climate. they found Brodle ninong them, really looked love another dis- bloodily bandaged hands.
attempting to recall them with Either it is too hot or too cold. Indians retreat tinction: They make the best
cup of tea in Korea, although the
gunners of the 45th Field
当
respect bulance. Every officer and mon butchery Involved in the robot- hald the preston). So let it be
NE story only will I tell or
hours fighting.
personally
up
them
"paretiling" Into
For groups across country under the cover of the Hussars' Centurions.
UTC
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vast numbers
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MANY times in. Korra I was
proud to be British.
On that occasion, under- Regiment (Brigedier Tom MA standably enough, he was a Brodle is their regulur__cafler) dirty, tired and unshaven as come a close second.
But he still wore they. conspicuous "brass hal,"
They wont- dired at that, because Chi- nese snipers
were
every- where among the ditches and scrub.
his
At such limes even the bravest com-
- Target" cap mander is en- titled to remove an item headgear calculated to make a sniper's mouth water.
of
Eventually Ehets did sing
close.
And Brodic, with a sudden qulity expression, did whip off his "target" cap.
His tired Bumbling troops found it possible to point and smile knowingly.
•
NE American general our men liked from the start- Licut-General George Milburn, commander of the US. First Corps, He was "Shrimp" to one and all. Small and round- ee nearly always smiling. Both our brigades served under him almost continuously,
-
around
constant
If
It is not dust it is mud, If it
Is
not dusty drought it is grey, steaming rain.
There is no Rome to capture But in this war; no shattered Berlin most precious of those mo- to suggest clean-cut victory. ments, I think, came one grey, Only more hills to climb,-more
cross, more the rivers to freezing morning south of Chongchon river, at the height ruing to occupy.
(MORE TOMORROW! of the winter retreat.
dreary
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Trell, and how's little aftes Mastadeg this morning-stiil along defermined to get tolthet, foreign technicians ?`
Sitting on
Fence....by
He was there, grey-faced and bitterly angry when the Argylls
fact that your were "error-bombed" in Sep-THE lember, He counted the de-
Uncle Nat and King pleted Ulsters
scram- as they
Farouk ended their bled over
Hon pontoon
the same day bridges after the Seoul rear-holiday on
He started a silly rumour that guard action in January,
over the
was early among the survivors of the two rukchelly playboys had been slinging the dice
the Glosters.
British soldiers notice such behaviour,
..
That August he resumed his full exercise programme, even carrying it out in New York.
He pow added a column fer hot baths, and his dumbbell exerelses had mounted to 800, swings a morning.
And in 1888 the record closes, but only because the gigantic expansion of business limited his time for diary keeping
William Lever died in 1923, aged 73, as the first Lord Lever- hulme, head of Lever Brothers, the soap empite then
£50,000,000,
worth
The diaries have been ex- hibited in London to mark the centenary of his birth.
Sidney Rodin
the
NATHANIEL GUBBING centenarians they
for world
that this is asking starvation in practically no time. But in St Louis, where 800 out a scientists are working scheme 30 make everybody live to the age of 100, or more, they have been amort enough to Warn old folk that if they want to be
must
cat hardly
dly anything at all. and bashing the sherbet
They must cut down severely And wherever he went, how bottle about together on the cellophane before he retires for You might argue that, as the on bread, potatoes, and sugar in
the night, and, thanks to the President gave her the medals, It
get fatally hotted up "dicey" the
case they situation, Continent. Brodie looked hard at them, ever
The truth is that your Uncle concave, or ingrowing design of is unfair to say she gave them to with too much energy, say "no, then smiled, winked. shrugged "Shrimp" always carried in his
But any old married no, no, no" to meat, fish, CARA, and put
three-starred jeep his aquirin-turned down teetotaller Farouk's the thing, can use it as a small herself. his cap again, Ch
he store for caviar or other catables man who has given his wife and poultry in case excess pro- first because His men, without food or water ing, barking, long-haired dachs-invitation,
fur coat knows who thought of Icin knockts their aging kidneys three days, after three hand Ebbo."
doesn't like Farouk, end; second, in case of famine.
it Arst.
for six, and say take it away" sleepless nights, after most Wotcher, Ebbo, mate," our because he doesn't like sherbet.
a chaps shouted and then, "Good
when But
the persistent dreadful lighting, managed
have always very time they are offered fried shaky cheer.
monarch rent a second invitation morning, sir" to "Shrimp."
As Joc would be the last person thought affectionately of Eva in food because it contains a sub
stance which clogs their arteries "Shrimp" and "Ebbo" reseat to stay with him in Switzerland. to starve in a Russian famine, terms of the old English saller and Causes heart failure. ly moved to a higher command. your Uncle sent bacit a telegram: the question still remains, "What song, "A nice girl, a decent girl. The best wishes of the British "Only if a wal is built between does to keep there?"
*.*
This Uncle can't tell you, be- but one of the rakish kind." In other words, pret.y, good-hearted That is why you read in your cause he didn't go to Russia after and a bit el a jumboy. No more. newspaper:-
for:
You see, Brodie is a leader.
▸
went with them.
UR
0 humiliation
soldiers'
fury and
at their low
Fates
to
At the time I translated in-
D
including the stabilising gear.
nil.
t
Up till
now
to the news, the WHEN people give themscives Pass the plankton
nor
andpa
Over here, where, country people have lived to incredible NE sure way to pull the legs "In a Swiss hotel King Farouk But, if you are thinking of Now I shall see her In aagca on diels composed mainly of of pay came to a head
built to baby mice,
15
you are not only different light, but always re- boiled pork and pease pudding, carly In April when the Aus of the 8th Hussars is to ask had a wall specially
the leader of a membering that reatus is akin we are going to be kinder to the tralians all got a 25. Od. a day them about the performances of isolate himself and his party being rude to
Though he great nation. but believing, to madness.
old folk.when there are so many rise to be paid in a lump sum their 50-ton Centurion tanks from other guests.
of them that the pork and pud- at the end of their, Korean and, after their praise has died spent only one night there, he something which is not in ac
Whatever happens, I shall ding won't go round, even on a service,
down, to say casually! "Well, paid the bill for the unfinished cordance with the facts.
Although it has been reported always think of dear Eva as a ration. Especially so, as the Aussies of course, it should be a good partition."
Our selentisia seems that
simple thus Stalin is fond of animals, genius.
already have the pay no income-inx at all while tank--it's a copy of the German
If over I give myself medals, I, their eye on a food called plank- creature took the telegram scri- he is not that fond. serving in Korea,
Tiger, Isn't
hope she will be big enough to ton, a fauna and flora found And so it is in some features jously and gave orders for the
think the rame of me even if I on the surface of the "ocean," Sterling terms, the various plus a few secret additions, wall to be built. Then some- Medals
body told him it was a joke and
for Eva also belleva I'am Napoleon. which is moat arki brend to Commonwealth weekly pay
whales and sch
serpents and scales, taking at my index But the Centurion is a splen-he left next day in a huff.
According
may married soldier without chil- did tank, has well proved fis
worth,
which - medals for doing something dren..
in-wall coat him £1,200, in: close support of
makes
a better joke than it or other, like Merc Ix how the figures fautry. work out. They are inclusive Our lank men have only one seemed at first.
going round the bend. of all allowances applicable to joint suggestions or out
when they give themselves every day that the population of alime found on ponds of farms Korea service:
be found forward for a fifth
that necals for not doing something, the world was getting larger and ale vilages Privato Lieut. Brigadier crew member and he should
and the food supplies of fats, proteins and carbo- Campdian 413 00 £20 30 40000 nave a "free" machine-gun to Uncle Nat Gubbins hind gone to you may be forgiven for assum- older
hydrates, Zlan- 29130 213180 233180 deal with infantry at close quar-Russia to see. Uncle Joe S'all, ing that they are right round the shorter.
weeks later they are Two
"Another slice of pork?" ters...
It was based on this Uncle's bend and heading full speed for,
saying exactly the same thing! Thanks Why ain't granfer Right now, the big tank is well known curiosity about in the nut house.
en-I read the except tha; selentists in America Therefore, when t apt to be blind" when the growing mountaches and what
""Hồ mys it might kilf him, as Chinese get really close y they concepl.
foport from the Argentine that are doing their damnedest to eating his green slime?" Mys Joo Steile owns what is prob. President Peron has presented make the world population events full of fats proteins and Tably
the best specimen of this his wlio Eva with three modals older and therefore larger if the
carbohydrates" ULE War Omen, slipped up type of moustache in the world for her self-denial in refusing birth rate keeps up
to become a candidate for the Anybody but a scientist (that (or Vice-Presidancy this year," I felt is to say any normal person. kend would come to like, conòltanton" min a bit worried."
Almira-
17. Zen.
Tandre Fusion.
2448-61368.257100
(over 25 yrs, DI RIV).
(under 25) D Now.Zealanders, like the Aus- sles, pay 'no'Income-tax.."
Another rumour
Was
The Canadianaɔpay, cudnicomes P badly in sending Reservista today.ats M2 Tovarich : "exceeding £700,0.JORT.di to Karea who had been prianoro-2 Ho
there affee. Greeks of-war
capture Comrade), Incidentally, Tutks,
Wrapu
4
be just the
the thing for Inberatery. they are experimenting with Dwere telling reporters almost new delicacy; "the bright green
Coering, ke the late Hermann BEFORE I went away, experts Now, in a Berkshire laboratory,
They do get cunning at that
--=fLondon Kaparaka. Apretok)