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Old 17-08-2007, 03:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Fantastic Dave,

Thank you for those and the one from Adagem. Hope you had a great time and someone to massage your clicking finger as you have been quite busy.

The cemeteries can be quite interesting. I have been doing the general cemeteries in Melbourne where I live and came across this one at the St Kilda cemetery from the great war. I knew all about Captain Albert Jacka (VC) (MC & Bar) and his history however I never would have known where he was buried.

Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC & bar

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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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