Did the Manchesters send national servicemen to Korea in 1950-53?

[Mark Garnham]

Hello everyone,
A privilege and a pleasure to meet you all, across cyberspace anyway.

I am trying to find records regarding my stepfather Ronald McDonald, of the famous clan that is! Ronald has recently left us but told me stories of his time fighting in the above war.

Now Ronald was how can you say, a character. I wanted to find records to speak about him at his funeral on Wednesday however it is possible he was, shall we say, bending the truth. So I am not here to make fools out of anyone obvs.

I have two nephews currently serving in the Royal Marines.

Ronald did have he says a major operation after a head injury from shrapnel. The US army flew him to Tokyo for this.

Any information about Ronald's war record would be hugely appreciatrd by his widowed wife, my mother.

Ronald's dob is 9/7/31. June 1950 would be 18 years on cons ription of maybe later.

I sincerely hope he had not watched too many war films!

Very kind regards

Mark Garnham

[sphinx]

Mark,

Short answer is NO.

However, many men were transferred to 1 Kings to serve with them in Korea.

regards

[Mark Garnham]

Thank you

[themonsstar]

Hi Mark

Welcome to the site,  Do you have anymore details for the soldier name,rank & number.

[Mark Garnham]

Hi thank you the welcome, glad to be here.

Name:
Ronald McDonald (Ron had a brother Billy (William) who fought in WW2 and was also injured on active service). So a military family which is why personally I am sure he was in Korea. Ron wanted to follow his brother into full service but for some reason did not. This caused a bit of strife between them.
However, Ron was conscripted, not sure which year. I guess 1950/51 when he was 19/20. Dob 9/7/31.
I have a strong hunch Ron volunteered for Korea. As part of only 1,150 conscripts who were moved to 1st Kings as the gent above helped me with.
No service number as yet. He would have been a private.
Regards

[charlie]

Hello Mark,
I would think your best course of action would be to apply for his service record. The forms can be found here
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

Charlie