Description
He was wounded in action in support of the U.S. Marines fighting the First Battle of the Hook in October 1952.
The Chinese made their first concentrated attack to capture the Hook position from 2 – 28 October 1952. In spite of unparalleled artillery and mortar shelling and successive waves of determined Chinese infantry attacks, the 7th Marine Regiment held their ground although they suffered 70 killed and 386 wounded. In close support of the U.S. Marines were the 4.2-inch mortars of 61st Light Regiment, Royal Artillery who also came under severe mortar and shell fire – one of the casualties was Gunner C. T. Bradley.
Sold with a copied extract from The Times, 8 November 1952 and a casualty list excerpt from “Casualties Sustained by the British Army in the Korean way 1950 – 1953”.
