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Old 09-10-2007, 02:13 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Andy in West Oz View Post
http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/d_day/dday04bios.htm

Excellent short biographies of some amazing men.
I have a great interview (written) with Bill Robertson. He was in my Dads battalion and got knocked on the same day.

He met Monty at a briefing after D-Day and was known to be Australian. Monty looked at his uniform and said:

"You weren't with the 9th division then" and proceeded to ignore him.
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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
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