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01-06-2008, 09:34 AM
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Thank you for you interest and offer of assistance. I have listed all remaining Lincolnshire requirements and any you can supply will be fantastic. (7) Binbrook (St Mary) Churchyard (5) Brigg (5) Coningsby (4) Cranwell (3) Grantham (1) Grimsby (Scartho Road) (1) Harlaxton (SS Mary & Peter) Churchyard (3) Kirton-in-Lindsay (5) Lincoln Newport (1) Manby (St. Mary) (3) North Cotes (St. Nicholas) (1) Scopwick Church (2) Skegness (St. Clement) (1) Sutton Bridge (St. Matthew) Churchyard (4) Thurlby (St Germain) Churchyard Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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These are the only ones I have in Drenthe.
Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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11-06-2008, 06:01 PM
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| Thanks Philip, Really appreciate the hard work in getting these photos. How is the bicycle riding going? Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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11-06-2008, 07:04 PM
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| Dear Spidge an others friends of Forum: A friend of WW2F (Operation Felix) sent me months ago of Memorial in Gibraltar.          I hope that these photos you help in your research. All are miniatures. Clic for enlarge. Jan.
__________________ 73 y buenos DX de Jan7 La llave de la libertad es la sabiduría. El cerrojo de la esclavitud la ignorancia http://www.u-historia.com History of U-Bootwaffe in Spanish http://www.tradiweb.com/ta.htm Translator online Last edited by Jan7; 11-06-2008 at 08:20 PM. Reason: speelling |
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11-06-2008, 07:45 PM
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| In accord to CWGC :: Cemetery Reports these persons of the RAAF are honoured in this Memorial: No Name Rank Service Regiment Date Of Death Age Grave/Memorial Ref. 2 ATHERTON, WILLIAM SAMUEL CHARLES, W S C Sergeant 404322 Royal Australian Air Force 09/01/1942 22 11 FOX, WILLIAM JOHN, W J Flight Sergeant 428682 Royal Australian Air Force 12/02/1945 30 13 FREW, HAROLD GEORGE, H G Pilot Officer 409826 Royal Australian Air Force 19/04/1944 25 1 MACKIE, JOHN STEWART, J S Flight Sergeant 403673 Royal Australian Air Force 24/04/1943 22 15 OAKLEY, FREDERICK JOHN, F J Flight Sergeant 416883 Royal Australian Air Force 30/11/1943 21 2 POLSON, BRIAN WALLIS, B W Flying Officer 411641 Royal Australian Air Force 12/03/1943 21 3 RICKETT, RONALD CHARLES GRANVILLE, R C G Sergeant 412698 Royal Australian Air Force 12/03/1943 20 Jan.
__________________ 73 y buenos DX de Jan7 La llave de la libertad es la sabiduría. El cerrojo de la esclavitud la ignorancia http://www.u-historia.com History of U-Bootwaffe in Spanish http://www.tradiweb.com/ta.htm Translator online |
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11-06-2008, 11:39 PM
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| Thanks for the photos Jan, I have 6 on the memorial and now only one to go there who is buried in the Northern Cemetery. Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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