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23-03-2008, 11:06 AM
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You're Top Poster: #11   | The Sniper is Back Hi All, Sorry for my absense over the last couple of months but i had some difficulties which i had to sort out, mainly my job. But now The Sniper is back, bigger and better than before. The Commonwealth Roll of Honour is also back on track so keep those photos of Commonwealth headstones coming and they will be put up onto FREE databases as soon as i can get them up. As most of you know i have been collecting these for sometime now and have a number of relationships with private and Goverment websites where these photos can be obtained FREE of charge and in any amount. I have two websites in Canada which i use, 'The Canadian Great War Project and The Canadian Virtual Memorial. I'm also in talks with 'International Forces', here in the UK and also The Auckland War Museum in New Zealand. If anyone has any suggestions on websites i can contact in South Africa, India and Australia i'd love to hear from you. Its great to be back and hope to talk to you all soon. Mike (Sniper) 
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23-03-2008, 11:14 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Woohoo, welcome back Mike. Good to see you again, and glad to hear that you are keeping well. And good to hear that the project is going well.
__________________ _________________  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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23-03-2008, 11:14 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Welcome back mate! I have been a bit scarce due to work commitments myself. Glad everything is back on track. Speak soon.
__________________ 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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23-03-2008, 02:18 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Welcme back, Spidge and Sniper, hope you stay around for a bit!
__________________ 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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23-03-2008, 02:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #17 | I answered your PM about the local grave stones where I live in Ontario Canada. The main site for the Canadian headstones is the Maple Leaf Legacy Project: index The fellow that runs that is Steve Douglas and it is all volunteer. The Virtual War Museum is run by Veteran's Affairs Canada and contains the CWGC record of the soldiers death (so if not on CWGC not on VWM) along with additional information sent in by family or researchers. That site is located here: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada The Canadian Great War Project is a private project of Marc Leroux and Chris Wight of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group. Many of us who are researching soldiers complete the service record data sheet for that soldier and then upload it onto Marc's site. He also has a number of other databases, such as Grandson Michael's war diary summaries and the town memorials. Marc's site is also the home to two very important utility programs that you can download for free. One searches the Soldiers Records (with wild cards allowed) and the other searches the War Diaries. Both of these data bases are at Library and Archives Canada. Marc's programs allow you to extract complete sections (such as a whole battalion of soldiers) or a complete war diary (set the time specifications). You will find Marc's site here: Canadian Great War Project You can also save you own sub-searches on that site, such as I have done when I am researching the battalion that my grandfather served with in Canada, prior to joining the BEF. Any other questions about Canada sites, just ask and I will respond as best I can. Like any good government, records are spread all over the place! Last week I finally took the step to fill in the forms and send them in for my parents to get their WWII records (they are deceased or you need their permission). I have never done a WWII record request before so we will see how it works out and I will report back, probably at the end of the month. There are no restrictions if the person has been dead for more than 20 years. You do need a death certificate, photo of a grave stone, newspaper announcement or some other form of document to prove the person is dead. For me the tough part was proving I was in fact their son, as all our family records were lost in a fire in 1967 so I don't have my original birth certificate. Richard |
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23-03-2008, 04:21 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Quote:
I've answered your PM Richard. Many thanks Mike (Sniper)
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23-03-2008, 06:00 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | welcome back Mike, we missed you 
__________________ "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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23-03-2008, 06:42 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Thanks all, its good to be back and i can't wait to get back into the swing of things again. Mike (Sniper)
__________________ For those that served, fought and died. We will remember them. Lest we forget The Sunderland is from 422 RCAF Squadron whom my dear Father in law served at Pembroke in Wales. |
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23-03-2008, 07:13 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | And i really must get those photos to you
__________________ "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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23-03-2008, 07:21 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Quote:
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