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Edgar Green arrived in Korea at the start of the war, in 1950. He was among the first British deployed. Unlike those that came later, Edgar’s war was extremely mobile. With his regiment he marched north on the offensive and retreated south when the communists pushed back. The parkas they wore and guns they carried were insufficient for the battles they fought. In one of the most expansive accounts, Edgar also explains how the war has been received over the last seventy years.
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Feltham Marshalling Yard.
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Green clarified in later correspondence some of the chronology around these events. “After only a couple of days when we were just below the Nakdong River we were ordered to take over from the Americans. It was here that I was one of four who took over a OP post from the Americans, this is where it poured with rain and we were up to our waist in water.”
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In correspondence, Green informed us this event occurred a few weeks after the breakout of the Pusan perimeter. This story was relayed to Green during a revisit to Korea around 2006, by a veteran of the Argylls who had suffered burns from the napalm all down his back.
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Edgar added further context to this later, noting that he thought the reason the men hadn’t had food was because of the speed at which they took different positions.
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“Civvy street” is an informal British Army term for civilian life.
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Green, E. (2023). Private Edgar Green. 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_8
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