Owen D Posted 6 May , 2007 Share Posted 6 May , 2007 Good on yer Ian. See some real soldiers again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen D Posted 6 May , 2007 Share Posted 6 May , 2007 Estonia? That's blue black white. I thought it was similar to Lithunaia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 6 May , 2007 Share Posted 6 May , 2007 That's blue black white. I thought it was similar to Lithunaia. OK - you win. Lithuania it is...though there are a few S American states similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 6 May , 2007 Share Posted 6 May , 2007 Mine is the top of the Canadian Memorial at Vancouver Corner....my favourite memorial. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Hollington Posted 9 May , 2007 Share Posted 9 May , 2007 Estonia? Hmm! I thought it was similar to Lithunaia. Double Hmm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejcmartin Posted 9 May , 2007 Share Posted 9 May , 2007 That is me in my Avatar, "in costume" during the filming of the CBC documentary "The Great War". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 10 May , 2007 Share Posted 10 May , 2007 Hmm! Double Hmm! Ali...."tonhgue in cheek" emoticon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike13 Posted 11 May , 2007 Share Posted 11 May , 2007 Mine is in respect to my grandfather who died when I was 2 years old,and I never had a chance to know him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womo Posted 18 May , 2007 Share Posted 18 May , 2007 Mine is the crest of Swansea City. Yeah yeah, I know it says im from Yorkshire but I am a 'Jack' at heart Womo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loganshort Posted 19 May , 2007 Share Posted 19 May , 2007 Mine is my Grandfather, Pvt Jack Short when he was enlisted in the Scottish Horse. photo taken at Dunkeld, Scotland 1916 while in training there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnLyons Posted 19 May , 2007 Share Posted 19 May , 2007 Mine is of the ship Oxfordshire, which carried my grandfather Private F D Stowell, away to war. It was from a postcard he sent to his then girlfriend, my grandmother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjohnson1@blueyonder Posted 19 May , 2007 Share Posted 19 May , 2007 Mine currently is the 41st Division Memorial at Flers. I will be staying at Dinnaken House in Flers next week and this memorial is the first thing You see in the morning when you wake up and look out the bedroom window. Ian. **Thanks to Ken Lees who originally sent me the picture when I requested on his last visit to Flers** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Brown Posted 19 May , 2007 Share Posted 19 May , 2007 Hi At the moment mine is Pte Robert Hamilton, 2nd battalion Seaforth Highlanders, someone who I have tried to find for the best part of 5-6 years. Commemorated on the Rankinston War Memorial. Served as William Shanley, same number, same Regiment, same date of death, same cemetery, same, same, frustrating search. But unable to officially connect the 2. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullivan Posted 19 May , 2007 Share Posted 19 May , 2007 Mine is the Memorial at Doiran, perched atop "Colonial Hill" looking north to the Bulgarian trenches and the Devil's Eye. On one side of the column is inscribed: IN GLORIOUS MEMORY OF 418 OFFICERS AND 10282 OTHER RANKS OF THE BRITISH SALONIKA FORCE WHO DIED IN MACEDONIA AND SERBIA 1915-1918 AND TO COMMEMORATE 1979 OF ALL RANKS WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE BUT WHOSE NAMES ARE ON THE PANELS THEY DID THEIR DUTY The four sides of each of the four plinths, and two walls in between, are densely graven with the names of the fallen... Regards, Adrian Adrian, Did you notice any Royal Munster Fusiliers soldiers names on the memorial panels for period 1915-18. Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinnethmont Posted 26 May , 2007 Share Posted 26 May , 2007 Mine alternates between the logo I created for my website ( a K superimposed over the outline of the Rannes Public Hall) and the emblem of the 51st Highland Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geoff501 Posted 27 May , 2007 Share Posted 27 May , 2007 Well for the month of May and June it's got to be George Leigh Mallory and Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine, who 83 years ago were attempting to climb Everest. They went missing on 8th June 1924 close to the sumit. The body of Gerge Mallory was found in 1999, that of Sandy Irvine was never 'officially' found. Two very brave men And one remaining question - did they make it? For as long as I've known the story, I like to think Yes. In Goodbye To All That, it is mentioned that George went through the war as a gunner lieutenant, "but kept his nerve- by rock climbing on leave" (p62). What unit did he serve with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebriggs Posted 27 May , 2007 Share Posted 27 May , 2007 For as long as I've known the story, I like to think Yes. In Goodbye To All That, it is mentioned that George went through the war as a gunner lieutenant, "but kept his nerve- by rock climbing on leave" (p62). What unit did he serve with? Well of course they made it - but them I'm biased (living in Cheshire and 2 miles from where he was born) He served with the RGA and went to France on the 4th May 1916 and reported for duty with the 40th Siege Battery that was just North or Armentieres ...........can't find his MIC though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 27 May , 2007 Share Posted 27 May , 2007 Mine is now a young Coldstream officer posted as missing whose mother wouldnt except that he was killed H H C Williamson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 27 May , 2007 Share Posted 27 May , 2007 Same as it's always been, the headstone of Brigadier-General Sir John Gough, V.C., K.C.B., C.M.G., Chief of Staff First Army, 22-2-15. Buried in Estaires. To my mind, one of the great 'What if's' of the war. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 27 May , 2007 Share Posted 27 May , 2007 didnt know that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 28 May , 2007 Share Posted 28 May , 2007 Funnily enough, Tom and I took photos of that self-same headstone last weekend. Visiting for a Forum pal's relative photo, and there was Gough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Blonde Posted 28 May , 2007 Share Posted 28 May , 2007 Mine is simply scanned from my Irish Defence Forces pension cheque receipt Connaught Stranger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric e Posted 28 May , 2007 Share Posted 28 May , 2007 Mine is my Grandfather Private John Richard Evans, joined 2/1st Shropshire Yeomanry 22nd October 1914 "after the harvest". Served in Egypt and then France with the 10th KSLI. Captured at the Lys Canal on the 22nd August ,he almost starved whilst working as a prisoner of war. Suffered with his health for the rest of his life dying in 1946 aged 52. Eric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 28 May , 2007 Share Posted 28 May , 2007 Yesterdays avatar was our male,Souri,whom I have deposed in honour of Micks cat. This one isnt a poilu,its a french sgt.from the prussian wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 28 May , 2007 Share Posted 28 May , 2007 This one isnt a poilu,its a french sgt.from the prussian wars. He actually is a Poilu then. (That term was also used 1870-71 too, though Grognard was also (probably more) popular). Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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