In South Korea, the „MPs“ even went to the bathroom with us.
Stáhnout obrázek
František Ambrož was born on 8 July 1932 in Poněšice in South Bohemia into a family of a village blacksmith. He trained as a glove maker. In 1951 he married and their daughter Věra was born. František Ambrož had to complete basic military service and in 1952 he joined the garrison in Bohnice, Prague. He underwent radiotelegraphic training and was sent as a radio operator with the second Czechoslovak group to Korea in April 1954. Czechoslovakia was one of the members of the Supervisory Commission of Neutral States (SCNS), which was to supervise compliance with the peace treaties after the end of the three-year war between the Democratic People‘s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea. Due to the fact that František Ambrož had family obligations in Czechoslovakia, and the risk of his emigration was minimal, he was sent to the southern part of Korea, which was controlled by the American army. However, the originally planned six-month mission was extended to a year, and František Ambrož did not return until April 1955. He remained in the army as a radio telegrapher. The marriage did not last a year and the Ambrožs divorced. He remarried again and with Zdeňka Shánělova their son Zdeněk was born in 1956. František Ambrož served in the military garrison in Mimoň, but after the arrival of the Soviet occupation troops, he and his unit had to move to Hradec Králové. He retired from there in 1991. In 2024 he lived with his son in Skalice, near Hradec Králové.
