Major Bill Close MC*, Tank Commander RIP

adrian roberts · 02-06-2006, 01:42 AM

Owen · 02-06-2006, 08:54 AM

Another Great man gone.
Remember first reading of him a few years ago.
Having 11 of your tanks shot up, wonder if that's a record?

spidge · 02-06-2006, 09:28 AM

He definitely wouldn't have liked the joke about the "Ronson"!

A right gutsy b*****d he must have been.

R.I.P.

Kiwiwriter · 02-06-2006, 07:32 PM

RIP, Major Close

Panzer Bait and A View From the Turret...must get them.

Thank you for your service.

02-06-2006, 01:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
adrian roberts Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NW Kent, England Posts: 763	*Major Bill Close MC, Tank Commander RIP** http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../01/db0101.xml Adrian __________________ for heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding, calls not thee to guard thy mercy on thy people, Lord (Kipling)

02-06-2006, 09:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,960	He definitely wouldn't have liked the joke about the "Ronson"! A right gutsy b***d he must have been. R.I.P. __________________ 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** Last edited by spidge; 02-06-2006 at 09:36 AM.

02-06-2006, 07:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,443	Another loss RIP, Major Close Panzer Bait and A View From the Turret...must get them. Thank you for your service. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

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Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,698	Another Great man gone. Remember first reading of him a few years ago. Having 11 of your tanks shot up, wonder if that's a record?

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