Memories of Service 5 - Ray Green

Like many of his generation in the United Kingdom, Ray Green was called up for National Service. But it wasn’t until he and his mates were almost on the troopship heading to Korea in 1951, that they realised they were going to fight. Green’s Welsh regiment spent a full year in the combat zone. Danger was ever-present as they patrolled on pitch black nights with the enemy just two thousand metres away, or over the next hill. As he recounts in this interview, Green escaped death or injury on several occasions. He relives it every night, but says it was an adventure he wouldn’t have missed.

Seventy two hours after arriving we were in the front line.

– Ray Green

Key Cast & Crew

David Blyth

Interviewer, Producer, Director

Patricia Stroud

Producer, Research

Stephen Latty

Camera, Sound

Edward Larsen

Editor

Jed Town

Composer