03-06-2008, 11:09 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2008
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 | Greetings Hello All, I was introduced to the Forum on a cracking trip to Monte Cassino with Owen & Paul Reed that we did a couple of weeks ago. My primary WWII interest is the activities of the South Wales Borderers - I recently re-traced their first 48 hours in Normandy with my wife. A great weekend. I am also interested in the African Pioneer Corps - if anyone comes across any references to them in contemporary histories I would be pleased to learn of them. But, above all I am student of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902. Regards Meurig |
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03-06-2008, 11:13 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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  | Hiya Meurig, Glad you made it here. If you look at the Pre-War section there are a few Boer War related topics that maybe you could help out on. Such as this one? Does AH Cook of the Wilts appear on the medal rolls you have access to? http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/prewar/...ers-bible.html |
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03-06-2008, 11:16 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!  Join Date: Apr 2004
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| welcome SWB and nice to meet you!
__________________ "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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03-06-2008, 11:35 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK
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| Welcome to the forum SWB.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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04-06-2008, 06:02 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich
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| Welcome and enjoy !!!!
__________________ 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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04-06-2008, 09:06 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Howdy SWB and welcome. 
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  |
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07-06-2008, 12:47 PM
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| Ubique  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Glad you made it here Meurig - here's to the next trip!
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