The horrors of the Korean War have been brought back to life and laid bare in a series of digitally colourised pictures.
The vivid colour images show many different sides of the war between North and South Korea, which started in 1950 and ended with an armistice in 1953.
One striking photo shows a Korean girl with her baby brother on her back tiredly trudging past a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju Fortress in Goyang, South Korea.
A Korean girl with her brother on her back tiredly trudging past a stalled M-26 tank, used by the US Army, at Haengju Fortress in Goyang, South Korea in June 1951 in the midst of the conflict that killed nearly 5million people. It would be another two years after this photo was taken until the war ended with an armistice in 1953
American Marines run past the body of an enemy soldier partially buried in the marshland on the Korean Peninsula, September 1950. They're carrying semi-automatic rifles and have been soaked up to their chests after running through bogs
Young captured North Koreans put their hands up and surrender as a US Marine (right) points a pistol at them following an ambush on September 20, 1950. In the background is one of the tanks which came ashore in the assault at Inchon, a South Korean city bordering the capital of Seoul
US Marines carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher through grassland in the large port city of Pusan in South Korea between August and September 1950 during the Battle of Pusan Perimeter. It was one of the first major battles that saw US troops pushed to the brink of defeat by the invading North Korean army
Another shows US Marines carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher through grassland in the large port city of Pusan in South Korea.
A third image shows a Marine ordering captured North Koreans to keep their hands up and a weapons squad leader pointing out a North Korean position to his machine gun crew.
The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised by electrician Royston Leonard, 55, from Cardiff, Wales, with each snap taking between four and five hours to complete.
'Adding colour brings to life the horror of war, of the trenches and not just
