Scottish Korean War Memorial

Scottish Korean war memorial 14th Feb 2019

The Scottish Korean War Memorial was opened on 27 June 2000, to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the war. The pagoda, which now forms such a focal point for the memorial, was dedicated on 27 July 2013, to mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice. Within the pagoda are lists of the names of those who fell.
The memorial was created by the Lothians and West of Scotland branch of the now defunct British Korean Veterans Association as a tribute to the memory of their fallen comrades.
The shrine is built in the traditional style of a Korean shrine and contains name boards listing all the 1,114 men who died.

It is the only memorial in the UK dedicated to the Korean War that does this. The mounds have 110 Korean firs on them; one for every ten men who died.
It sits in the Bathgate hills, not far from Linlithgow and only 1 mile East of Torphichen

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Scene from area where two Polish troops were injured

1. Various of US soldiers by road
2. Helicopter flying overhead
3. Wide shot of helicopter, pan to soldier on ground
4. Polish ambulance driving by
5. Tracking shot of trucks and soldiers on road
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Ne'ma, Iraqi soldier:
We were driving on that side of the road escorting the Polish troops at 10:30 this morning (0730 GMT) when they hit us with a rocket.
(Question: How many casualties?)
Two.
7. US soldiers standing on road
8. Military vehicles on road
9. Polish APC (armoured personal carrier) parked
10. Military vehicles and soldiers

STORYLINE:

Two Polish soldiers serving with the United States (US) led coalition forces were injured on Friday when a bomb exploded near their patrol on the outskirts of the southern city of Mahawil, the coalition said.

A military spokesman for the coalition said the soldiers' injuries were not life-threatening and that an investigation was ongoing.

The incident occurred near Mahawil, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

On Wednesday a Polish parliamentary panel overwhelmingly rejected a motion calling for the withdrawal of the country's peacekeeping troops from Iraq.

The foreign policy committee voted by a 15-3 margin, with three abstentions, to recommend that parliament's lower house reject the proposal.

No date has yet been set for the parliament vote.

Poland was a staunch US ally in the war to oust former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and has sent 2,400 soldiers to lead a multinational force of 9,500 in south-central Iraq.

The Poles took command of the zone in September and the contingent suffered its first combat death on November 6, when an army major was shot in an ambush north of Karbala.


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