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Korea and South East Asia commemorative service
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Creator : Clarken, Robbie (photographer)
Source : South Austaliana database
Place Of Creation : South Australia
Date of creation : 2002
Format : Photograph
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Description :

View of the Korea and South East Asia War memorial on Port Road Median, Hindmarsh, with an honour guard, at the commemorative service for the 51st anniversary of the battle at Kapyong, Korea (24th - 25th April 1951) and the battle of Maryang San Eary (October 1951).

Further views show Veterans with the Korea and SE Asia Forces Association banner; with the Australian, battalion and United Nations flags; a general view of the commemorative service and a Bugler who performed at the commemorative service.


A pamphlet issued at the commemorative service by the Korea & South East Asia Forces Association of Australia, South Australian Branch, can be found in the published collection.

Subjects
Coverage year : 2002
Period : 2001-
Place : Hindmarsh
Region : Adelaide metropolitan area
Further reading :

Cochrane, Peter. Australians at War, Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001

Evans, Ben. Out in the cold : Australia's involvement in the Korean War 1950-53, Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian War Memorial and Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2000

Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002

Odgers, George. Remembering Korea : Australians in the war of 1950-1953, Sydney : Lansdowne Publishing, 2000

O'Dowd, Ben. In valiant company, St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2000

Smith, Neil C. Home by Christmas: the Australian Army in Korea 1950-56: being a record of the Australian Army's involvement in the Korean War and listing those who served in Korea 1950-56, Gardenvale, Vic.: Mostly Unsung, 1990

Internet links :

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: Korea

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]: See: The Great Search Stories: Korea

Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: Korean War 1950-1953

BBC History - The Cold War - The Korean War overview

Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index: The War in Korea 1950-53

Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War [Department of Veterans' Affairs: includes Nominal Roll and History]

Sea Power Centre - Australia: See: History: Feature Articles: RAN in the Korean War

South Australian war memorials [The Returned Services League of Australia (South Australia Branch)]

Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria]: See: Overview: Korea


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