Korean War Memorial

This memorial at Victoria Embankment commemorates the Korean War.
North Face
"The Korean War was the first UN action against aggression. The UN forces that fought the North Korean invasion were drawn from 21 counties. Although exhausted and impoverished after the Second World War, Britain responded immediately by providing strong naval, army and air forces and became the second largest contributor after the United States. A distant obligation honourably discharged."
South Face
" In this fierce and brutal conflict those who fought included many Second World War veterans reinforced by reservists and young national servicemen. The land battle was fought against numerically superior communist forces, the terrain was mountainous and the weather extreme. 81,084 British servicemen served in the theatre of operation. 1,106 were killed in action, thousands were wounded and 1060 suffered as prisoners of war"

The memorial was unveiled by HRH the Duke of Gloucester in front of 500 guests, including 320 veterans, on 3 December 2014.
Most of the British dead are buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery, Busan, Korea or commemorated on the Memorial Missing of the Commonwealth Countries.

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