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12-03-2008, 01:58 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Irish Guards 15/3/17 Ger, This is from The Guards Division In The Great War by Headlam. Volume 1, page 206. Quote:
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12-03-2008, 02:04 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!  Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Many thanks for that Owen. I'm going to check this out further. Much appreciated (as ever) for all the help!
__________________ "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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12-03-2008, 03:39 PM
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| Vejovis   Join Date: Feb 2004
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| I don't know what's being sought here, but this clip from the 2nd Bn I.G.'s history (Kipling) covering the same period as in Owen's post might be of some assistance? Dave.
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk |
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12-03-2008, 03:47 PM
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| Croonaert, I've discovered a relative of mine who was killed in the Great War serving with the Irish Guards. Here are a link to his details: CWGC :: Casualty Details Found it on the CWG website and Owen was filling me in on some of the details about the Irish Guards movements at the time of his death.
__________________ "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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12-03-2008, 04:17 PM
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| Vejovis Join Date: Feb 2004
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| OK. You'll possibly be wanting the page covering that date from the history of the 1st Battalion then?...
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk |
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12-03-2008, 04:28 PM
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| ...and a trenchmap extract of the area? (Jan 1917)...
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk |
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12-03-2008, 04:33 PM
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| let's chuck in a German one for good measure... 
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk |
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12-03-2008, 04:42 PM
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| have you got his Medal Index Card?... You'll note that his arrival date (13/8/14) indicates that he was in the first draft of irish guardsmen to arrive in France (arrived at Le Havre at 6am on the SS Novara). He'd certainly have seen a fair bit of action before his death!!!!
__________________ In memory of 1440313 Gnr.Michael O'Mara, 155th Bty, 52nd (East Lancs) L.A.A.Regt (TA) R.A. - severely wounded near Arras in May 1940 and who took nearly 21 years to eventually die of his injuries. website: http://pathsofglory.co.uk Last edited by CROONAERT; 12-03-2008 at 04:46 PM. |
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12-03-2008, 04:55 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Dave, Thank you very much. I'd normally do that privately but since you have taken the trouble to post this I want to express it publicly!!!
__________________ "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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