Bill Griffiths

Served in the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry for four decades he joined in 1946 and retired in 1984, his story and humorous memoirs can be viewed from the Korea 1951 menu "Bill Griffiths story"
Bill has been a great help to me in putting parts of the Korea site together and in doing so has become a great friend and for his assistance I will always be eternally grateful.
Bill was serving in Korea at the same time as  George Yapp he was in the adjacent platoon to George [L/Cpl Yapp] when he was mortally wounded and L/Cpl Hanlon was killed along with eleven others that were wounded on this day one of which was Bills  brother Cpl Bob Griffiths. This was in the first major battle that the KSLI regiment fought in Korea 20th May 1951 it was on hill 416.

Sadly Bob passed away this year 2011 he will be dearly missed.
Bob seriously wounded in the action lay on the next stretcher to my father [George Yapp] whilst awaiting evacuation to the mobile army service hospital [MASH] unfortunately George died in the helicopter on route.

  left) Brother Cpl Bob Griffiths this picture was  taken  in 1946 when Bob was the Co's Bugler. at Khartoum, in the Sudan

Bill Griffiths and an Infantry bugler in Korea at hill 416. This picture taken on his revisit of Korea 2002

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