A PERMANENT memorial is to be established to honour the 1,078 British servicemen who died during the Korean War. The British Korean Veterans Association has agreed to participate in the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal by sponsoring a plot within the new National Forest, currently being created at Croxall in Staffordshire.

The central feature will be an avenue lined with trees representing the United Nations - in whose name the Korean War was fought - at the end of which will be a circular site of about six acres. Within this area the BKVA will have one acre plot in which trees of Korean origin will be planted.

The association intends that the memorial should be completed in time to be dedicated before the year 2000, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. In order to finance the project, we have launched an appeal for donations. It is estimated that more than £10,000 will be needed..

Contributions to the appeal, 'BKVA Project 2000,' can be sent to Alex Walker, Project Co-ordinator, 14 Gateford Avenue, Worksop, Notts, S81 7BL.

COLONEL (Retd) G M GADD, National Chairman, British Korean Veterans Association.

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