Samuel thank you for your comment! ❤️ The UK lost 1100+ men. Lest we forget

@@Remember727 This was a citation given to The 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and C Troop 170th Independent Mortar Battery. HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH UNITED STATES ARMY KOREA (EUSAK) Office of the Commanding General KPO 301 GENERAL ORDERS NUMBER 286 8 May 1951 BATTLE HONOURS - CITATION OF UNITS BATTLE HONOURS - By direction of the President, under the provisions of Executive Order 9396 (Sec 1, WD Bul. 22.1943), superseding Executive Order 9075 (Sec.III, WD Bul.II, 1942) and pursuant in authority in AR 260-15, the following units are cited as public evidence of deserved honor and distinction. The citation reads as follows: The 1ST BATTALION GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT, BRITISH ARMY and TROOP C, 170TH INDEPENDENT MORTAR BATTERY, ROYAL ARTILLERY, attached, are cited for exceptionally outstanding performance of duty and extraordinary heroism in action against the armed enemy near Solma-ri, Korea on 23, 24 and 25 April 1951. The 1st BATTALION and TROOP C were defending a very critical sector of the battle front during a determined attack by the enemy. The defending units were overwhelmingly outnumbered. The 83rd Chinese Communist Army drove the full force of its savage assault at the positions held by the 1st BATTALION, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT and attached unit. The route of supply ran Southeast from the battalion between two hills. The hills dominated the surrounding terrain northwest to the Imjin River. Enemy pressure built up on the battalion front during the day 23 April. On 24 April the weight of the attack had driven the right flank of the battalion back. The pressure grew heavier and heavier and the battalion and attached unit were forced into a perimeter defence on Hill 235. During the night, heavy enemy forces had by-passed the staunch defenders and closed all avenues of escape. The courageous soldiers of the battalion and attached unit were holding the critical route selected by the enemy for one column of the general offensive designed to encircle and destroy 1st Corps . These gallant soldiers would not retreat. As they were compressed tighter and tighter in their perimeter defence, they called for close-in air strikes to assist in holding firm. Completely surrounded by tremendous numbers, these indomitable, resolute, and tenacious soldiers fought back with unsurpassed fortitude and courage. As ammunition ran low and the advancing hordes moved closer and closer, these splendid soldiers fought back viciously to prevent the enemy from overrunning the position and moving rapidly to the south. Their heroic stand provided the critically needed time to regroup other 1st Corps units and block the southern advance of the enemy. Time and again efforts were made to reach the battalion, but the enemy strength blocked each effort. Without thought of defeat or surrender, this heroic force demonstrated superb battlefield courage and discipline. Every yard of ground they surrendered was covered with enemy dead until the last gallant soldier of the fighting battalion was over-powered by the final surge of the enemy masses. The 1st BATTALION, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT and TROOP C, 170th INDEPENDENT MORTAR BATTERY displayed such gallantry, determination, and esprit de corps in accomplishing their mission under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions as to set them apart and above other units participating in the same battle. Their sustained brilliance in battle, their resoluteness, and extraordinary heroism are in keeping with the finest traditions of the renowned military forces of the British Commonwealth, and reflect unsurpassed credit on these courageous soldiers and their homeland. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL VAN FLEET. OFFICIAL LEVEN C ALLEN Major General US Army. Chief of Staff. L. W. STANLEY. Colonel AGC. Adjutant General

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There's no need for chest pounding the Americans have fought and bled beside us for years it wasn't just the Americans who retreated that entire flank retreated.

@@samuel10125 no it was just the Americans ran all the way back to Seoul.

My father was in the Ox and Bucks light infantry and met one of the survivors of the Glorious Gloucesters. His recount of it was apparently.. quite harrowing... But the history books show that the reason the British remained in place was nothing to do with cowardice on the part of the Americans or other UN forces, but merely of serious miscomunication. A nice video though giving a respectful commemoration of these men to which I thank you Hannah