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09-07-2008, 09:58 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK
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 | Just thought you would all like to know I am of on Holiday this saturday 12th with the wife on our own for the first time since we were married 23 years ago  Hope she don't want no nights of nostalgia I'm to old for that and need me beauty sleep for the exploring bunkers & tanks etc  We are of to St Pierre Sur Dives near Caen and we are taking a few pictures for spidge for his collection if there is anyone else that has a request for a photo of something specific say now and I will see what I can do with the itinerary and try to help you out If you want I will post the photos we take on here when we get back In the meantime heres a little snippet from 2 years ago Regards Lee
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10-07-2008, 11:22 AM
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Don't forget to have a great time, keep a diary and tell us all about the trip. Especially interested in the cemetery of your great uncle and would love to see a photo! It is coincidental that there are (3) RAAF boys in the same cemetery. Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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10-07-2008, 05:14 PM
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| St Pierre-sur-Dives was liberated 16th August 1944 by 5th Camerons. The Bridge over the river Dives had been blown and the town was shelled and mortared at intervals throughout the day. About 50 Prisoners were taken. It was at St Pierre, that 5th Camerons were first greeted as "Liberators". Would appreciate a pic of the Bridge and the Town sign if Possible, for use on my website.
__________________ 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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11-07-2008, 12:42 AM
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| 51 Highland, It will be a pleasure....... I would love an ariel photograph of the area in July of the town any ideas anyone? Lee
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20-07-2008, 11:53 PM
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| Hi guys back safe and sound and we have had the best holiday we have ever had... And I have some startling news not to mention downright creepy and loads of photos... as soon as I get my laptop sorted and link it to my desk pc I will upload the pics.... Spidge your going to be a happy bunny mate.... 51highland, got the pics you wanted as soon as I can I will post them  Lee
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21-07-2008, 06:13 AM
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| Many thanks, look forward to seeing all your photos !!!!
__________________ 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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21-07-2008, 08:19 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Have a great time and tell us all about it when you get back (the history part that is...)!!!!!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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21-07-2008, 09:56 AM
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| Welcome back Lee. Don't tell the kids you had the best ever time as they may get a complex. Look forward to the results and all the goss! Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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22-07-2008, 10:37 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK
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| Hi heres the first of many photos and an idea at what me and my lovely wife of 23 years Kimberley have been upto over the past week in France on holiday as promised I'll post as many as I can every evening but am really flat out at work at the moment so don't get in till late.... Well we started out from Coulsdon Surrey where we live and headed for the docks to one of them dilapidated piles they call luxury ferries at P&O for the 5.50am sailing and as per usual we left 15 minutes late so instead of a 60mph cruise I had to hustle the BMW down the M25-M26-M20 at naughty speeds good job the old girl is well looked after as the bavarian 528i SE barge hit its max fully loaded on the straight sections with no traffic around at 4 am which is a good job cos mr plod would have thrown the book at me  After a very smooth crossing and the wife still managing to feel ill we got into Calais at about 9am french time and headed to our normal first stop to stock up on groceries for the evening meal and out picnic at the lovely services at Bay de Somme ( a lesson here to be learned by our services ) we enjoyed our picnic sitting on the grass looking at the Carp and the ducks in this wonderful nature reserve looking out on the marshes...... We then headed south into Rouen and headed down the A roads to avoid the tolls and the motorway hubbub......and down to St Pierre Sur Dives Cue first photos for 51Highland More to follow later Bet spidge is getting flustered  It'll be worth mate I promise
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22-07-2008, 11:09 PM
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| Can we have some captions for the photos , please. Rgards your comments on P&O, I only cross the Channel with Norfolkline, I won't use anyone else now. Dover-Dunkerque maybe longer but it's a better voyage. We always sit on the end of the big curved settee looking out the huge window at the front. |
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