El Alamein

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  1. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    ANNIVERSARY

    To-day 23rd October is the 68th anniversary of the start of the third and last Battle of El Alamein- and we should pause to remember the 13,000 Commonwealth troops who are still there after giving their lives in this the turning point battle of WW2.


    we will remember them
     
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  2. 17thDYRCH

    17thDYRCH Senior Member

    Tom

    :poppy: Lest We Forget :poppy:
     
  3. WhiskeyGolf

    WhiskeyGolf Senior Member

    :poppy: We will remember them :poppy:
     
  4. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    :poppy: Lest We Forget :poppy:

    Paul
     
  5. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    :poppy: In memory of 6 Field Squadron Royal Engineers who stay at El Alamein:poppy:


    We will remember them
     
  6. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    As Churchill so aptly put it:

    "Before Alamein we never had a victory, after Alamein we never had a defeat."



    Lest we forget the cost of that victory !

    Ron
     
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  7. Jaeger

    Jaeger Senior Member

    I got a bull calf today, and I'm calling him Lightfoot.
     
  8. Combover

    Combover Guest

    Lest we forget.
     
  9. leemorph

    leemorph Junior Member

    :poppy: Lest We Forget :poppy:

    Paul
    My great Uncle Trooper Kenneth Murray Moffat was in 3rd Recce Battalion 1st Division and was killed in action during Operation Crusader 23/11/1941. I have only found this out a month ago. My Grandfather escaped during the battle of Tobruk 1942 have only received a photo of him and his crowd that escaped from the Germans. To me they were all heroes!!!!
    Lest we forget!!!
     
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  10. Smudger Jnr

    Smudger Jnr Our Man in Berlin

    :poppy: We will remember them :poppy:

    Tom
     
  11. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Jaeger
    hopefully - your bull calf will be re-named "supercharge"
    Cheers
     
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  12. Jaeger

    Jaeger Senior Member

    Well I am expecting three more calves before November 4th, so there is bound to be a Supercharge in there somewhere.
     
  13. Some Chicken

    Some Chicken Member

    To the memory of the Desert Army!
     
  14. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    75th Anniversary of this incredibly important turning point during WW2.
     
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  15. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    Posted an interview with Wilf Shaw about El Alamein here Steve, post 27
    El Alamein

    Lesley
     
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  16. gmyles

    gmyles Senior Member

    :poppy: We will remember them :poppy:

    On this day, 75 years ago, my fathers unit, the 94th HAA Regiment, were moving from RAF Amirya, where they had been since August, to El Kanabish, some 35 miles east of El Alamein.

    His unit crossed the 'start line' at El Alamein on 5th November 1942, heading for El Daba.

    Gus
     
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  17. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Thanks Lesley, great minds, with yours slightly speedier than mine. Hope all is well. :)
     

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