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05-10-2007, 01:47 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Aussie tribute truck - well done! I got sent this by a cousin of mine. Don't know anything else about the truck other than it's a fine effort. Can't make out the number plate on the first pic so don't even know where in Oz she is!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 05-10-2007 at 01:52 AM.. |
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05-10-2007, 01:48 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Kitty (and the rest of us) will like the right-hand side of the trailer.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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05-10-2007, 01:53 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Just been checking on the names Andy: Jack Locket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lockett Lionel Charles Mance http://www.holroyd.nsw.gov.au/html/l...arlesmance.htm Edward Smout enlisted in 1916 in the Australian Army Medical Corps, serving at Armentieres and later at Messines and Ypres in Belgium. Between March and April 1918 he served on the Amiens front and during the advance to Peronne and the Hindenburg line. Discharged in 1919, he rose to reach a top executive position in the Australian Prudential Insurance Company and contributed to numerous charities. Jack Lockett was 25 when he left the farm in March 1916 and joined the AIF. Rising to the rank of sergeant, he fought in the battles of Marrett Wood, Dernancourt, Morlancourt, Proyart, Bray, Suzanne, Vaux and Clary. After discharge, he returned to farming and eventually owned his own property. Eric Abraham, born in 1898, left the post office and joined the AIF in November 1915 and found himself in November that year with the 5th Division Signals Company as a sapper. He fought in the battles of Villers-Bretonneux, Morlancourt and Amiens and the advance to Peronne. On being discharged he returned to the post office and, after a career in the Public Service, retired as executive officer of the Commonwealth Department of Health. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/...544074757.html
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05-10-2007, 01:57 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Beat me to it!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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05-10-2007, 02:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Looks magnificent. Is that an error where the poppy is situated behind the Drivers cabin. ATT CALL?
__________________ 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-10-2007, 02:12 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | He's got the same thing on his mudflaps under the bumper, Geoff, so must be his business? Well spotted, might be able to track him down that way!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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05-10-2007, 02:24 AM
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__________________ 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-10-2007, 02:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Found it however I did not join up to view the images. http://www.indmowing.com.au/forum/sh...1018#post11018 FWD: G'day Col, my name is Bill Anderson - i had the truck designed and built through Kenworth for my customer (Attcall Plant HIre) based in Narellan. The customers name is Clint Mckinnon. The T904 Kenworth is in high demand for Anzac Day, and it will be either in the Campbelltown March or the one at Merrylands. hope this helps. Bill
__________________ 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: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 05-10-2007 at 02:36 AM.. |
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05-10-2007, 02:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I may just have to do a story on that truck and its owner!
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