Pictures can often say more than a thousand words
A Canadian UN soldier in Korea with a U.S. made M-1 Carbine and British Mills bomb grenades. Private Heath Matthews of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, awaiting medical aid after night patrol near Hill 166
When the Second Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry set sail for Asia on Nov. 25, 1950 the war in Korea seemed about to end. However, by the time the Princess Patricia’s arrive in Japan on Dec. 14, the tide of the war has turned dramatically with China’s intervention.
In all some 26,000 Canadians served in Korea, with over 500 never leaving there alive.