28-12-2006, 09:43 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Moscow
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 |  Celebrating of a New Year on frontline.... On one of our forums I found interecting photo of celebrating of a new (1942?) year by soldiers of the 113rd Rifle Regiment (photo presented by Ye. Drig)  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Alex Last edited by AMVAS; 28-12-2006 at 09:57 PM. |
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29-12-2006, 08:17 AM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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| New Years Eve December 31st 1946  The photo shows the Fair at Monfalcone, December 31st 1946 December 31st 1946 was our (the 4th Queen's Own Hussars) first post-war New Year’s Eve and the Squadron spent it at Monfalcone, a small town some 14 miles from Trieste. To coincide with the Xmas and New Year festivities, a small fair blew into town and parked itself on what was usually the open-air roller skating rink. Seven of the lads, including yours truly, went out for a meal and a drink, with which to see the New Year in. After the meal we drifted over to a shooting booth. The prize, if you managed to hit the tiny bulls-eye, was a magnesium flash photograph, taken automatically, and the result is shown above. On the same page of my Army Album is the restaurant bill. I see it was the Trattoria Zeno, the cost was 270 lira for drinks and 920 lira for the grub. I can’t remember what the rate of exchange was in those days but the bill was split seven ways and I don’t remember having any problems paying up. ps. Problem with the photo? pay a visit to <br>Ron Goldstein's <b><i>Actual</i></b> Army Album</br> and scroll down to Page 44 Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 29-12-2006 at 08:28 AM. |
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29-12-2006, 09:41 AM
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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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