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06-09-2006, 05:24 AM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- 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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08-09-2006, 06:14 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich
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| Re: The thigs people throw away !!! Received this e-mail, Yes! Yes! Yes! Richard, you have just made an old man happy. I served aboard Mauritius from her first commissioning in December '41 until April '44. I received the book at that time but over the years of much (not very careful) handling of it by my four boys it was lost. Thank you so very much for the offer to send 'The Book' to me when you have finished with it. My address is:- ########### Leslie Fife ###### Many Kind regards Jack Wilde Also found out that the book originally belonged to a Mick "Dixie" Dean, he may have been a Marine, Further investigations, me thinks.
__________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever) |
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08-09-2006, 10:15 AM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Re: The thigs people throw away !!! Well done - that is a great.
__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm |
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09-09-2006, 08:37 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Re: The thigs people throw away !!! Good work fella! Is there any chance you could find my instructions for my TV, Like a T**T, I think I may of left them in the box when I dumped it at the local tip!!  Your's, in wishful thinking
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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09-09-2006, 10:25 AM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: The thigs people throw away !!! Well done. Made an old vet very happy and has enforced in his mind at least that there are people who still care!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- 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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25-09-2006, 07:23 AM
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| Re: The thigs people throw away !!! Sent the book, Jack Wilde sounds a happy man !!! received these 2 e-mails. Hi Richard, Thank you so very, very much. If there is any thing I can do for you in return I most willingly will do so. May I offer you the cost of postage? Regards Jack -------Original Message------- From: keep_em_moving Date: 09/20/06 16:51:00 To: jackwilde*at*blueyonder.co.uk Subject: book Hi Jack, look out for the post man. Posted HMS Mauritius book to-day, 20/09/06 regards Richard Sands Hi Richard, I received the 'Book' this morning. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate your thoughtfulness and quick wit in rescuing it from oblivion. Reading it again brought back so many memories. My most kind regards Jack
__________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever) |
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