{"id":627737,"date":"2026-06-08T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627737\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:53:10","slug":"vandalism-of-forest-of-dean-war-memorial-heart-wrenching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627737\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism of Forest of Dean war memorial &#8216;heart-wrenching&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifteen men from the Forest of Dean fought in the battle in April 1951, which was credited with saving South Korea&#8217;s capital, Seoul, from capture by Communist forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 400 members of the Gloucestershire Regiment held out against 10,000 Chinese troops for three nights during the battle on hill 235, which was later renamed Gloster Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defacing of the plaque is believed to have happened over several days, and Gooch said the initial damage was done on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are horrified and this is not a true reflection of the Forest as a whole,&#8221; Gooch said of the vandalism to the memorial, which was erected after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c93q8xv7458o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a318,000 was raised in donations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[The arboretum] is a place of reflection, which was one of the reasons why that site was chosen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen men from the Forest of Dean fought in the battle in April 1951, which was credited with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}