Aussie Korean war MIA's

**Cobber** · 10-13-2010, 10:58 PM

In this post I am just attempting to get to the bottom of any SAS in Korea 1950 to 1953. As it is my main area of interest and previous posts in this thread got my interest level raised to a high level.

Spider what country did your father serve for in Korea? Can you post some of the photos you have it would be great if you can. As I have said Korean War is my main interest and any photos and other information is very welcome as it could broaden my horizons some more.
Are you saying your father spent three (3) years in combat during 1950 to 1953 or are you including the years of peace enforcement, 1953 to 1956.
Are you sure he spent time with SAS? Have you confused the SAS with Brit Commandos?

There appears to be zero evidence that any SAS Troops or Squadrons were in Korea. The SAS was fully occupied in Malaya from late 1950 onwards 21 SAS (Artists Rifles) went straight to Malaya from Britain and again there is no evidence that they deployed to Korea at anytime. Naturally it is a possibility that fully trained SAS individuals from Britain were deployed to Korea and could have spent time with the Brit Commandos, Marines or Infantry for the experience.
(See link given by John which is the only mention of a SAS trooper (individual or troop) I have seen for the entire Korean war and I have found zero information to back up what this link states, 'that the dead man was SAS')
I have had contact with several people including britian small wars .co Many sites state (IMHO they Guess and just assume) that 21 SAS was deployed to Korea late 1950. They only mention it, they do not have any detail which is a contrast from every other SAS deployment these site's mention. However these sites also mention 21 SAS deploying to
Malya in late 1950 as a Squadron. 22 SAS created in 1952 and deployed to Malaya some time later.
21 SAS spent three (3) months training for Korea however remember that Britian did not announce that British troops would be sent to Korea untill late July 1950 and before 21's deployment to Korea apparently they were re tasked and re trained for operations in Malaya. LRRP (I'm told they were not a part of SAS) trained for ops in Korea however since such ops were nigh on impossible in Korea ( even during the mobile stage of war) they were not deployed as a LRRP.

Was your father in British army before Korean war? Was he part of the Brit army during Korean war? I have found no evidence of any Aussie soldiers spending the full 3 combat years in Korea.

Any information from anyone regarding SAS or anything else about Korea would be appreciated.