This year, we will see the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. To mark this, I am writing a piece for a magazine on the #KoreanWar. I am determined to continue to raise general awareness of the history of this conflict.

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#OnThisDay (3 December 1854) The Battle of the #Eureka Stockade takes place in Victoria, Australia, killing 27. The clash was the culmination of a gold miners rebellion in #Ballarat against British colonial authority, protesting against taxation and lack of representation.

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Men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the #KoreanWar. On the night of 4/5 Nov 1951 the KOSB were attacked by a Chinese division of 6,000 in Kowang-San. Their forward positions were overrun but the battalion held, suffering 31 killed, 90 wounded, and 20 made prisoners of war.

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A platoon of #TheBlackWatch late during the #KoreanWar. The platoon commander is 2nd Lieutenant A.T. Baillie (extreme right). Although uniform and equipment had changed somewhat since the Second World War, weapons still included No.4 rifles and Stens etc.

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A U.S. Army Bell H-13 Sioux and Commonwealth troops during the #KoreanWar. Entering service in 1946, it was the first helicopter to be operated by the U.S. military in large numbers. It was widely used for reconnaissance, search and rescue, and medevac.

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March 1951: A wounded soldier is prepared for transport to a #MASH unit at Chechon, Korea. The revolutionary use of helicopters to evacuate battlefield wounded greatly helped increase survival rates during the #KoreanWar.

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Norway deployed a #MASH unit during the #KoreanWar based on the U.S. model. Although it's core personnel were Norwegian, the unit comprised of staff of many nationalities. #NORMASH, as it was known, treated over 90,000 patients during its time of operation.

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Aerial view of the 8055th #MASH in #Korea. According to Samuel Gelfand's memoirs, who served with the unit as a surgeon, the 8055th was established on a minefield. Part of it was cleared to make way for the MASH but many mines remained just outside its boundaries.

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