WITH reference to the BBC coverage of Bill Speakman, ‘VC medals to the Korean people’ broadcast on April 21. For your readers’ information, it should be known that Bill Speakman VC is the president of the British Korean War Veterans’ Association of which I am the chairman.
The Korean War was an event that has had little publicity and is known by veterans as the Forgotten War. In fact the total killed in action is recorded as 1,068, more than the total of the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts combined, with many more wounded in action. The majority of British servicemen who served in the conflict were National Servicemen and many bodies were not recovered for burial.
Among these was the editor of the Northwich Guardian at that time, Vic Dunlop, a reservist with the Kings Liverpool Regiment who was recalled for the conflict, and killed on April 25, 1951.
Frank Fallows Chairman British Korean War Veterans’ Association
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