KOREAN WAR veieran Dr. Don Copley displays his photographs from
the war and the American bayonet he kept at his side.

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Vet recalls horrors
of the Korean War

27,000 CANADIAN TROOPS

JUNE 25 marks the 40th
anniversary of the start of
the Korean War.

By SURS RATTAN
News Reporter

But, according to the Korean
Veteran’s Association of Canada
Inc. (KVA), not many Canadians
are aware of the role Canada
played in the three-year war, which
ended on July 27, 1953.

As part of United Nations’
troops, Canada sent approximately
27,000 Canadians to Korea, the
largest per capita force.

Qne of those was West Van-
couver doctor Don Copley. And
although it’s been nearly 40 years
since the outbreak of the Korean
War, Copley still remembers an
incident of the war...an incident he
wishes never would have happen-
ed.

Because of the bitter cold, the
Canadian troops wore three pairs
of gloves.

And Copley, who saw action in
Korea from Aug. 1950 to Feb.
1952 with the Second Battalion

SENT TO WAR

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
Infantry in the Canadian Army
Special Forces, was tending to a
wounded platoon mate when he
was fired upon.

“When you're fixing someone
up you get fired upon sometimes
and you get out of there as fast as
you can and I forgot my mitts, my
gloves, everything.”

‘*We were wailing to go in on an
assault and a fellow, he wasn’t
particularly a friend of mine, but
he was one of my platoon mates,
said ‘you don't have any gloves.’ I
said I had left them when I was
fixing up so and so and he said
‘you have to have gloves’ and he
gave me a pair of his gloves, which
was really something because he
needed them."’

“So he gave me a pair of his
gloves and then we went in on the
assault and he got killed...and I
couldn’t get to him. Every once in
a while | think about him and how

40 YEARS AGO

nice he was to give me his gioves,”’
Copley says with glazed eyes.

When the Korean War broke
out, Copley was working as a la-
borer in a Toronto warehouse and
was trying to complete his high
schoo! at night.

To this day Copley defends his
decision to go to Korea, saying ‘‘E
felt it was the right thing to do.”’

“This was an act of aggression
by North Korea against South
Korea, and 1 think everyone felt
the Soviet Union was behind it,”’
says the 6t-year old Workers’
Compensation Board general prac-
tictioner. ‘‘Plus the fact that I saw
these fellows, who were younger
than I was, enlisting, also Second
World War veterans were enlisting
and I felt it was more my duty to
go than theirs.*’

But Copley’s father didn’t share
his son's viewpoint and was devas-

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