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27-11-2007, 01:51 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Goulburn NSW Australia
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You're Top Poster: #26   | Also new After posting a few things thought it time I introduced myself. my name's Rod 58y.o, did 4 years High School cadets as a bren gunner and left as a Sgt then did a bit with 3 Bn RNSWR; 2 years as Hon Sec local RSL sub branch and lately as a committeeman. Responsible for getting a War Memorial built to commemorate WW2-Vietnam vets as they didn't have one. Researched 3101 names by myself, raised the money and organised the Unveiling and Dedication myself then was pressganged into performing the Unveiling. I'm also chief researcher/Tour Guide for local War Memorial Museum. Grew up in a houseful of returned men with my maternal grandfather WW1 veteran and foundation/Life Member of his town's RSL mum's brother WW2 RAAF in New Guinea as an Airfield Guard with 323 Radar Sqdn, dad was RN another uncle captured Singapore with 2/12 Field Co. WW2 and survived the Burma Railway. Dad's father was WW1 with Lovat's Scouts also had a brother in Argylle & Sutherland Highlanders WW2 and was one of the last to escape from Singapore by hiding under a jetty until Japs left and then swimming out to sea before being picked up by an Allied ship. Another uncle was in Bomber Command as a Flight Engineer then went to BOAC post war and retired an Instructor with British Airways. A cousin was RAF helicopter fitter saw service in the Falklands, was on the Sir Galahad when sunk and also in Gulf War 1. Hence my interest in all military history. Rod |
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27-11-2007, 05:26 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Welcome to the forum Rod. Thank you for the introduction. I hope you enjoy visiting the forum, and look forward to many interesting posts. That is a very impressive list of relatives, and their service to their country. I don't know if you've seen this thread? RAAF Radar Vets Organisation And very well done on the War Memorial. That sounds like it was a lot of hard work but wholly worthwhile.
__________________ _________________  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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27-11-2007, 06:10 PM
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| Kneel before Mod   Join Date: Sep 2007
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You're Top Poster: #4  | welcome to the forum digger, hope you enjoy your stay. Now educate us on your family';s history!
__________________ "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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27-11-2007, 07:49 PM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome aboard Rod. Great work on keeping the history and remembrance alive.
__________________ 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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27-11-2007, 09:00 PM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Welcome to the forum Rod, hope you enjoy your time with us!
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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27-11-2007, 10:02 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Welcome Rod and thanks for introducing yourself. I hope you're enjoying it here. It would seem your family's commitment to service is alive and well in you. Well done with the memorial and the research. Feel free to post away about your family!
__________________ 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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