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17-09-2007, 11:28 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Strange But True Anything that you think is strange, out of the ordinary or just made you stop for a sec? Post it here.
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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17-09-2007, 11:36 AM
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| Άρης Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Name/Rank Going through the CWGC I've come across a number of names that made me wonder whether they raised a laugh during the persons service: 1) There are a number of Sergeant Sergeants listed 2) Captain Majors (3), Major Major (1), along with a lot of the other ranked Majors 3) Rifleman Gun (2) 4) Number of Flights (none in the Air Forces though) 5) Sergeant Air and Flying Officer Airs Any others?
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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17-09-2007, 01:29 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | This RAAF Sergeant. DEATH, ERNEST NORMAN Sergeant 424741 27 O T U 10/09/1943 19 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. A. Grave 415. CHESTER (BLACON) CEMETERY
__________________ 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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17-09-2007, 06:28 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Oh yes, i actually giggled in the middle of a war cemetery when I had to photo Sergeant Death
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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20-10-2007, 10:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Not strange as such but unusal: Name: ACLAND, ION HUGE Initials: I H Nationality: Canadian Rank: Pilot Officer (Air Obs.) Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force Age: 26 Date of Death: 18/03/1941 Service No: J/2827 Additional information: Son of John Bevill Acland and Marjorie Acland, of Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot H. Grave 10. Cemetery: ANDOVER CEMETERY
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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