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An Englishman, Roy Painter found himself in the Australia Regiment when he arrived in Korea in 1952. As a signalman he took a position with the Australian commanders behind the front lines. What Roy remembers most is the American jazz bands, the leave, and the time spent joking with other soldiers. It’s a choice to remember the levity. He diminishes the moments of gravity when Chinese soldiers fired on him at a river, or the lack of attention paid to veterans upon his return home.
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Painter, R. (2023). Private Roy Painter. In: Cullinane, M.P., Johnston-White, I. (eds) A Forgotten British War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10051-2_12
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