{"id":50,"date":"2013-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/28\/post-43-tea-time-at-gloster-hill\/"},"modified":"2013-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:00:00","slug":"post-43-tea-time-at-gloster-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/28\/post-43-tea-time-at-gloster-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-43: Tea-Time at Gloster Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
In post-40, I wrote about what General Paik Sun-Yup<\/strong><\/span> [\ubc31\uc120\uc5fd] had to say about the British serving in Korea in the Korean War. In his war-memoir<\/a> (chapter five), I found this:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 T<\/strong>he British [in the Korean War] were absolutely devoted to the ritual observance of tea-time<\/strong>. <\/span>
<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They dropped <\/span>everything at 4 P.M. to consume tea and cookies, even during combat<\/strong>. British <\/span>
<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 artillery <\/span><\/span>ceased firing for tea-time and then picked up the tempo afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n

He made those comments shortly after mentioning the battle at Gloster Hill<\/a>, in which an entire British battalion (800 men) was encircled for three days and compelled to surrender in April of 1951. This led me to wonder if the Gloucester Battalion also<\/em> found a way to stop everything for tea, at the appointed times, on those three days of encirclement. Gen. Paik implies that they would have.\n<\/div>\n

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\"Picture\"<\/a> <\/p>\n
\nCaption:<\/b> Soldiers of the English Gloucestershire Regiment battalion
stop for afternoon tea. In April, 1951, this battalion was overrun
by a massive Chinese attack and only a few of its members
reached UN lines. (Defense Department photo.) [Source<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A short-story or movie (or short-film), based around this surreal premise, really yells out to be created. I’d entitle it:\n<\/div>\n
Tea-Time at Gloster Hill<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n
I imagine it to be a dark-comedy, set in the British positions at Gloster Hill, April 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 1951. <\/p>\n

<\/span>Maybe the story would have three acts, each act depicting tea-time on one of above-mentioned each days. <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act I:<\/strong><\/font> Day-1 Tea-Time — High Spirits<\/span> — Maybe they can repulse the attack?
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Act II:<\/strong><\/font> Day-2 Tea-Time — Defeat Looming<\/span> — No escape
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Act III:<\/font><\/strong> POW Tea-Time<\/span> [As I understand it, the Englishmen all surrendered before noon on the 25th.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Maybe the third act we have them on the march north, bound for POW camps. Maybe the Chinese
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>commander would have allowed them drink tea on that first afternoon as POWs, as a show of good-will].\n<\/div>\n

I like this premise. Why not? \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In post-40, I wrote about what General Paik Sun-Yup [\ubc31\uc120\uc5fd] had to say about the British serving in Korea in the Korean War. In his war-memoir (chapter five), I found this: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The British [in the Korean War] were absolutely devoted to the ritual observance of tea-time. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They dropped everything at 4 P.M. to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}