05-04-2007, 06:31 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cheshire
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 | Hi from a new boy Hi everyone - just to introduce myself as a new member. I'm Dave from Cheshire, UK and like many others my interest in World War Two relates to my Grandad. He was in the Second Batallion The Cheshire Regiment and as part of the 50th Infantry Division saw action pretty much everywhere!! Cyprus, Israel, North Africa, Sicilly, D-day to the start of Market Garden and then to India as part of the South Lancashire Regiment and from there to Java as an MP. I'm extremely proud and very determined that his, and everyone elses, work will not be forgotten. Moving onto my reason for joining. I managed to write down most of what Grandad (Pte then Lcpl George Frederick Kettle) could remember but soon after this he had a stroke and was paralysed and couldn't talk for three years dying recently. I have much work to do if I'm to record his movements 1939 to 1946 but hopefully you lot here may be able to help. I'll be posting questions soon in the relevant forums so please bear with me or if I become annoying please let me know. |
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05-04-2007, 06:36 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 | Welcome Dave, Good luck with your quest.
__________________ 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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05-04-2007, 07:02 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Welcome to the forums Dave.
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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05-04-2007, 07:45 PM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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| Div "Flashes" Hi Dave Just thought I'd point out that Div Flashes could also be worn on epaulettes as seen on this snap taken in Egypt in 1944. The Div insignia is that of the 78th British Infantry Div, sometimes referred to as the Battle Axe Div. Good luck in your research
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 |
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05-04-2007, 11:18 PM
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| Very Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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| welcome to the forum david
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05-04-2007, 11:52 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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 | Dave - welcome. Ron - great photo; am presuming it is of you?
__________________ 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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06-04-2007, 01:07 AM
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| WW2 Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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| Paul Who else ? Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 |
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