HUGH JONES - KOREA & MIDDLE EAST 1953
Hugh Jones, now living in BC Canada, sent these photos of his time in Korea and the Middle East in 1953.
Korean War 1953
APO and sign over the door way from which the POWs were released. Hugh writes: Our OC had the job of taking the mail for the British POWs in Korea. He took the mail to Pamunjom and with precise timing entered a tent at the same time as a North Korean officer, to meet face to face at the table. Both saluted each other, then exchanged mail bags.
Bill Miloy and Pals outside APO Bank building Seoul. Hugh writes: In Korea during the war the airmail would arrive at Kimpo (K9) in the mid morning, from Tokyo I think...From Kimpo it was taken into Seoul to the Army Post Office located in a bank in the Forward Maintenance area. The Commonwealth Division was located 20 miles north of Seoul on the Imjim river where it cuts across the 38 parallel.
Bill Miloy and Jake ? in the yard behind the bank Seoul APO.
Bak Hung-Woo and Sgt Barnard NCOi/c Seoul APO, in the yard behind the bank.
Bak Hung-Woo and his younger brother
See George Cleasby's Korean War pictures
Middle East 1953
After his tour in Korea Hugh was posted to the Middle East - his first place of work was Gordon Barracks, Moascar, near Ismailia and the Sweet Water Canal.
Mail sorting at the L of C PU RE Fanara, Egypt 1953
Posties and RAF crew at RAF Fayid, Egypt,1953 - Hugh is the one wearing the hat.
Hugh and Bill West at Aqaba, Jordan.