J T Gray Posted 1 August , 2006 Share Posted 1 August , 2006 Roland - you could have got this thread to 11 pages all on your own if you posted once each time you changed avatars! Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Mine is "goodbye old man" from a sketch published in a newspaper after ww1. i was so saddened by it when i saw it hanging in TOC house in flanders last year. there have been several drawings of it over the years, but this one is the most poignant i have seen. says it all. I read somewhere about a CO who had been summoned to drag a young boy away from his horse after they had been shelled and the horse lay dying. the young chap would not or could not bring himself to leave his horse and was endangering the rest of his co. by not moving. the story went that instead of being court marshalled the CO said to him "if there were more people like you on this earth with feelings for animals, there would not be the dreadful wars we have seen". I have probably got the words wrong (as per) but that was the gist of the story (read in one of the many factual war books I have had my head stuck in)........ no comments you rude lot!! susan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gumbirsingpun Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 my ane is known as the lion rampant, which was adopted in 1165 by William the Lyon to replace the previous symbol o scots sovereignty. tuna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Mine is "goodbye old man" from a sketch published in a newspaper after ww1. susan Susan - it was painted, circa 1915, by Fortunio Matania, to raise funds for The Blue Cross Fund, run by Our Dumb Friends League for the relief of suffering of horses caught up in the war. The Blue Cross (as the charity is now known) still owns the original. Trust me - I work for them Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSoldier Posted 10 August , 2006 Share Posted 10 August , 2006 Mine is 30864 Private Edwin Tidey 7th (Service) Battalion (The Shiney 7th) Bedfordshire Regt. Killed in action 10th August 1917 at Glencorse Wood, Near Ypres, Belgium. A member of Kitcheners 2nd Army. My Great Uncle. Terry W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ressmex Posted 11 August , 2006 Share Posted 11 August , 2006 Mine is the 5 Div badge / flag in memory of 28705 Pte James W Rolland 2 KOSB formally 3578 FFYeo died 08. 05. 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 11 August , 2006 Share Posted 11 August , 2006 Roland - you could have got this thread to 11 pages all on your own if you posted once each time you changed avatars! Adrian forum fillys section perhaps ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willywombat Posted 11 August , 2006 Share Posted 11 August , 2006 Mine's pretty self-explanatory. Family regiment going back generations and the cap badge I currently proudly wear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Hazell_Great_Grandson Posted 12 August , 2006 Share Posted 12 August , 2006 forum fillys section perhaps ? Oh i say ! Roland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 15 August , 2006 Share Posted 15 August , 2006 Susan - it was painted, circa 1915, by Fortunio Matania, to raise funds for The Blue Cross Fund, run by Our Dumb Friends League for the relief of suffering of horses caught up in the war. The Blue Cross (as the charity is now known) still owns the original. Trust me - I work for them Steven Steven, yes I remember now. I sent a donation to the Blue Cross Fund following one of your many amusing replies to some statement or another (think it was something to do with the Christmas santa on the chimney stack that was eventually withdrawn - shussshhhh). Susan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geoff501 Posted 17 August , 2006 Share Posted 17 August , 2006 mine....... is a secret. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADFGX and the English version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADFGX which has come interesting comments in the Cryptanalysis section on the 1918 spring offensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 20 August , 2006 Share Posted 20 August , 2006 Steven, yes I remember now. I sent a donation to the Blue Cross Fund following one of your many amusing replies to some statement or another (think it was something to do with the Christmas santa on the chimney stack that was eventually withdrawn - shussshhhh). Susan. Thanks - keeps me in a job for a bit longer..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 20 August , 2006 Share Posted 20 August , 2006 to the three Gleed brothers who never returned, they leave a mark in stone, one still missing and one (my grandfather) no grateful record , the price for returning alive!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take on me Posted 23 August , 2006 Share Posted 23 August , 2006 Mine is a Short Stirling RAF bomber of the Second World War. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 23 August , 2006 Share Posted 23 August , 2006 Thanks - keeps me in a job for a bit longer..... Couldn't let the side down and have you at home all day now could I? Us women have to stick together (no rude comments??!!) ps; have changed my Avatar to my beloved spike who sadly died last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 23 August , 2006 Share Posted 23 August , 2006 Mine is a Short Stirling RAF bomber of the Second World War. Jon Have you seen Michale J F Bowyer's book on the Stirling? Really good ps; have changed my Avatar to my beloved spike who sadly died last week. Nice looking chap - you must miss him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie Posted 23 August , 2006 Share Posted 23 August , 2006 The list of Forsters on the Thiepval memorial that are were in the Northumberland Fusiliers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldstreamer Posted 26 August , 2006 Share Posted 26 August , 2006 mine is now my cat just for a change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhubthaigh Posted 29 August , 2006 Share Posted 29 August , 2006 Dedication/Unveiling Blairgowrie & Rattray War Memorial Sunday 21st June 1921, address by the Duke of Atholl; "Sometimes when you feel that things are becoming very ‘dreich’, and life is hardly worth living, look at this monument, remember what these men endured and the sacrifices they so willingly made, and you will see that your troubles in proportion are small. Those that died that we might live have left us a very precious heritage - not only the great legacy of liberty but our own country. The glory is to those who fell, the honour surely is to us and we owe it not only to them but to those who are yet unborn". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 12 September , 2006 Share Posted 12 September , 2006 Well, I have to say that I have been most flattered by the amount of interest my latest change has brought about. A true hero to all of us over ** years.....a great star with Eric & Hattie (and Corky the copper). The great, the one and only, the quintessential Englishman....Richard Wattis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott henderson Posted 13 September , 2006 Share Posted 13 September , 2006 Cap badge of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Bailey Posted 14 September , 2006 Share Posted 14 September , 2006 The fuse for an 18Pdr Shrapnal shell needs little introduction on this forum. My grandad probably fired thousands of them. Gunner Bailey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta Posted 15 September , 2006 Share Posted 15 September , 2006 For one week only - tank C6 (Cordon Rouge) returning from her objective at Courcellette Sugar Factory, on 15th September 1916, in support of an attack by 2 Cdn Div. Her crew were • 2Lt John Allan. Initially a Pte soldier (1427) in King Edwards Horse, date of commission unknown but transferred to Hy Sect MGC. Awarded the MC for conspicuous gallantry in action on 15th Septmeber 1916. "He manoeuvred his Tank with great skill under heavy shell fire over difficult and unknown ground, and brought it into a good position for enfilading the enemy trenches, which he succeeded in doing with good effect. A/Capt 12 Apr 1917, employed as an instructor, then served in F Bn and commanded a section of Whippet tanks, in support of the US forces, during the advances in Autumn 1918. Injured whilst serving with B Coy on 8 Oct 1918. No CWGC record. Assumed to have survived • 2749 Cpl FG Vyvyan later fought with C Bn at Arras, April 1917 anwarded DCM. "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During the opening of the offensive on April 9 1917, when the officer had been killed, he took charge of his tank and continued to fight it with the greatest boldness and skill. When he could not reach the enemy with his Lewis gun inside the tank, although under heavy fire, he fixed up a Lewis gun on top of the tank, and fired it from there. He thereby greatly assisted the infantry to advance." 2 x MIC but no CWGC record - assumed to have survived • 2668 Gnr HJ Bedford • 2633 Gnr EA Hunt • 2772 Gnr Arthur F Jakins; later 205450 A/Cpl Tank Corps? • 2640 Gnr William Jones; then 201270 Pte Jones Tank Corps then 2Lt Tank Corps (MIC card confirms) • 2751 Gnr C Kilminster, probably 206136 Pte Clarence Kilminster KIA/Dow aged 24 on 3 May 1917. Son of George Kilminster 10 Hardinge Ave, Allerton Liverpool. Buried in IVB11 at Duisens Mil Cemetery (location of 8th CCS) near Arras. • 2636 Gnr VC Newby • T4/141180 Pte Joseph Barton ASC who rebadged to MGC and Tank Corps. (77478) survived The Wyvern will reappear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnr.ktrha Posted 15 September , 2006 Share Posted 15 September , 2006 Hello, At the moment it is me, in my Full No.1 Dress as a piper in the Blairgowrie Pipe band, standing next to the Blairgowrie War memorial in the Wellmeadow, Blairgowrie. Regards, Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 15 September , 2006 Share Posted 15 September , 2006 Stewart, It looks a cracking pic, but it's rather small. Could you post a bigger copy. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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