"Whilst we were on position at Kapyong, we were told that the entire division had collapsed, hotly pursued by Chinese. Now a size that big, which is about nine times bigger than our force, we had to plug that particular hole to stop the Chinese rush.

"So we thought, well this is some ask, this is. This is going to be - we had the Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry on our left flank, a bit further away, but we were widely dispersed, you know, widely, widely dispersed.

"And how we held on for so long, which enabled the Americans on our right flank to pull back, otherwise they would have been cut off completely.

"We were there sufficiently long enough to save the American division on our right flank. And that was the main effect of Kapyong for which I think the unit got the Presidential Citation awarded to it for that battle."

CORPORAL JOE VEZGOFF