17-07-2008, 08:07 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canterbury, Kent
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 | New member Hello all. I must confess that I am really a genealogist who has become interested in WW2 material - not least since my late father-in-law was in the 4th Ox & Bucks LI at Cassel, after which he was a POW in Laufen, Posen, Biberach, Warburg, Eichstätt and Moosburg. He took part in the Biberach tunnelling operation - see Michael Duncan, Underground from Posen (1954). Regards Tom |
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17-07-2008, 09:18 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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|  to the forum Tom. It certainly was an outstanding rearguard action by the Ox & Bucks and Gloucesters. On a clear day the view from the top of Mont Cassel is brilliant, you certainly get a good view of the 1940 battlefield. Here's some photos I took on a visit to Cassel earlier this year. IMG_0467.JPGIMG_0468.JPGIMG_0470.JPG
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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17-07-2008, 05:29 PM
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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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19-07-2008, 12:15 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Welcome to the forum Tom!
__________________ 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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19-07-2008, 05:05 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Welcome indeed! I was at Cassel last month; very interesting location.
__________________ 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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20-07-2008, 09:33 AM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Hi Tom. Welcome. Enjoy.
__________________ '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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