CHUNG KIN-WAH will never forget December 4, 1967.
He was just 19 when he left his police post near the old border to get his washing, without knowing he had hung it up in an unmarked British army minefield.
After taking a few steps he trod on a 'Dimbat' anti-personnel mine about the size of a shoe-polish tin. It blew off his lower right leg.
'It was a cold day - whether that had anything to do with it I don't know - but when I stepped on the mine I didn't feel pain initially.
'But when the dust settled I found my foot had disappeared. My mind went blank and I trembled, thinking I was going to die.
'I was just going out to collect my washing. We were never told mines were planted there,' said Mr Chung, now a father of five.
He was compensated, kept his job and was promoted to sergeant but there has never been an explanation from the British army.
