| Who am I?
I was a lieutenant in September 1914, was under the eye of Sir John Monash and ended ww1 as a Lt. Colonel who was decorated and mentioned in despatches five times. The battalion that I formed in Australia fought with distinction.
If Germany had invaded the UK in 1940, another Battalion that I formed and trained would have met that German threat on the beaches.
I would not have to wait long to prove my ability against the German war machine.
__________________ 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:
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