16-07-2008, 06:25 PM
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 | Hello John, Have you been to the IWM on-line Photographs archive and entered 78th Division ? Welcome the Imperial War Museum's Collections Home Page Rich
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16-07-2008, 09:16 PM
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 Seriously, any photos or documents are always of interest. Rich
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17-07-2008, 07:51 PM
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| 78th div.photos http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...vision/dad.jpg http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...n/78div005.jpg Here is a picture of my father and his 78 div.insignia and RASC badge, regards,John. Last edited by jwp59; 17-07-2008 at 08:05 PM. Reason: problems loading pics |
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19-07-2008, 12:12 PM
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| Welcome John, from the other colony!
__________________ 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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20-07-2008, 09:34 AM
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| Hello John. 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 agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944.  |
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21-07-2008, 08:24 AM
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| Morning John and welcome to our humble abode. Hope you like it!! 
__________________ "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, 10:08 AM
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| Many thanks all for the welcomes, great forum, just getting ready for my trip to Arras next week,mainly to visit WW1 sites where my grandfather fought, any suggestions for ww2 sites in the area ?, regards, John. |
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21-07-2008, 10:19 AM
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http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-bat...amage-ww2.html Have a search on the forum for "arras 1940" a few interesting posts about it. Thought you moght like to read this webpage on 2 Wilts at Roeux. Defence of Arras If you're going to Vimy Ridge, think of it in May 1940, units of both 50th Div and 5th Div had at different times taken up postions on Vimy Ridge in the old trenches of the Memorial Park. On the Memorial itself the 92nd Field Regiment RA had established an OP in support of 50 Div. | |
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