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21-10-2007, 06:33 AM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
Posts: 837
 | Be warned...there's another Veteran on the site !  It's good to see that Tom Canning is on the loose again. What some may not realise is that Tom & I have a long standing relationship (in its original meaning !) due entirely to the fact that we were both helpers on the BBC WW2 Peoples War site. In the course of us both making postings, it soon emerged that a remarkable set of coincidences had marked both our military careers, as demonstrated below. Despite the fact that we both served in different Regiments and never (to the best of our knowledge) actually met during wartime we equally seem to have been in lots of the same places at the same time, as follows. 1. Bury St.Edmunds, Infantry Training Rgt. Oct. 1942 2. Troopship S.S.Franconia en route to North Africa Apr 1943 3. Transit Camp Matifou outside Algiers 4. Caserta, Cassino Feb 1944 5. Rieti, Armoured Corps Training Depot Nov 1944 6. Villach, Austria Aug 1945 7. Barnard Castle, Transit camp Jan 1947 8. York , Demob Centre Mar 1947 The full story can be seen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/48/a7270148.shtml but for those that can't be bothered I attach a picture below
__________________ 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 Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 21-10-2007 at 01:02 PM. |
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21-10-2007, 10:28 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
Posts: 9,456
 | I've just made him purple. Welcome Tom. Just been checking your stories out on BBC People's war website. BBC - WW2 People's War - Autobiog: This is a sad one. BBC - WW2 People's War - Two Great Men Last edited by Owen; 21-10-2007 at 10:33 AM. |
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21-10-2007, 12:28 PM
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| I Like Tanks  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
Posts: 8,471
| Seems odd to say 'welcome' as you've technically been a member so long but it's very good to see you posting Tom C. I've read some interesting stuff from you elsewhere on the web and look forward to more! Cheers, Adam.
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22-10-2007, 01:09 AM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
Posts: 848
| A very warm welcome Tom. Ron is absolutely correct - now there are two Churchill wallahs to deal with! Here's one of yours on the prowl.  Best wishes to you and yours, Gerry |
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22-10-2007, 07:46 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 8,044
| A very warm welcome 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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