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>> Your full name.
>> My name?
>> Thomas Perkins.
>> Thomas Perkins and your date of birth and where you were born?
>> I didn't hear that.
>> Your date of birth and where you were born?
>> Oh, I was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales in a place called St Davids, the smallest city in Europe.
>> Okay. When did you serve in Korea?
>> When did I serve in Korea? 1951 to '53.
>> Can you share what you brought with us? You brought something.
>> I've got something?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Yeah, just a photograph of me in Korea. I was 19 years of age.
>> What do you remember about your buddies? What do you remember there?
>> I was in the Tank Corps. I was a tank driver.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah, and this is ... That is actually the tank that I drove when I was Korea.
>> Oh.
>> That one there.
>> Can you show it like this?
>> Sorry?
>> Can you show the picture like this? Yes. Wow. It's the real one?
>> Oh, yes.
>> Did you know any of the 32 that died in the war?
>> Did I?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Did I know any?
>> Who died, yes.
>> Who died?
>> Yes.
>> I ... We only a couple of men in Korea.
>> Thirty-two.
>> That one ...
>> Were you part of the Welsh Regiment or the King's Regiment.
>> No, no, I was Tank Regiment.
>> Was the tank part of the King's or Welsh?
>> I was a Tank Regiment.
>> It's a separate?
>> Not in Korea, no. Welsh Regiment Infantry.
>> May I take a picture of that one too?
>> Yeah, that's ... This is the crew of that tank.
>> Oh.
>> That is me. I was the tank driver with [INAUDIBLE] gunner, and that's a radio operator.
>> What was ... What's your one story?
>> That was during the actual war. We were on the battle of the Hook. Also ...
>> What's the battle of the Hook.
>> It's an area within the Commonwealth division in Korea.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> And we had a place called the Hook, which is the hook, and then we had other positions, which are relevant to the area, 355, 159, 210, 10, and they all had names, [INAUDIBLE], Little Gibraltar.
>> Wow. Do you remember ... Have you been back to Korea?
>> No, I have no wish to go back?
>> Why not?
>> When I went there, it was a lovely ... When I went there it was a nice, quiet country. There was no skyscrapers. It was very, very basic.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> The people were very basic.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> And there was this war going on, which wasn't very nice, and it was very cold.
>> Very cold.
>> Everybody talks about how cold it was.
>> You could have a cup of tea and put it down, and 5 minutes it was frozen.
>> I'm glad you made it back very safely.
>> No, I've not been back. I've not ... I've no wish to go back there.
>> Oh, no, I mean back home.
>> Sorry?
>> Back home.
>> Back home?
>> Yeah.
>> When did I get back home?
>> I went to Korea '51. I didn't come back home to this country because I went to other places.
>> You were in the military.
>> I was in a long time. I went from Korea to Malaya. That's in Malaya.
>> Yeah, from very cold to warm.
>> That's Malaya, further down, and I served in Malaya. These are letters I had from your ...