Although
Canadian troops arrived in Korea
in December 1950, they initially underwent extensive training
and did not see action until February 1951.
The
following casualty lists were Department of National Defence press releases for
the media. It should be noted there
is a time lapse between the actual dates of casualties and the dates indicated
in the press releases. For example,
Casualty List No. 1 is dated 2 March 1951 . However,
Privates Andersen, Brown, Colbourne, MacKay and O'Brien were killed in action
on 23 February 1951 .
Deaths from
accidents and other causes were not listed in Official Casualty Lists prior to
2 March 1951 , although they
were after that date.
Categories
in the following lists include:
Killed in Action
Wounded
Died
of Wounds
Killed in Accidents
Injured in Action
Accidentally Wounded
Missing in Action
Dangerously Ill
Prisoner of War
Returned From Prisoner of War
Initially,
personnel unit affiliation was not included in the lists; it commenced with Casualty
List No. 46, although some were identified by corps, such as the Royal Canadian
Infantry Corps (RC IC), rather than by battalion and regiment.
A few of the lists are missing numerically.
Hopefully, further research will fill the gaps.
Casualties in the Royal Canadian Navy are listed following the Canadian Army casualty
lists.