MAURICE A. BRETTELL

Born: 1932.
Died: 14th September 1952; age 20; – Korea.
Rank: Lance Bombardier.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 61 Light Regiment. (mortar) – attached to the Australian Light Infantry.
Grave Reference:
United Nations Memorial Cemetery,
Daeyon-ong,
Pusan,
South Korea.
Two other men were also killed from the 61 Light Regiment on the 14th September 1952.
Sergeant R.H. Broadbent, aged 24.
Warrant Officer 2nd Class/Battery Sergeant Major Charles Robert Woosnam, aged 31 – of Colwyn Bay, Wales.
In April 2013, Charles Woosnam’s nephew Brian Woosnam was presented with his late Uncle’s Queen Elizabeth Cross and memorial scroll, at a ceremony in Llandudno, North Wales.
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