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24-03-2008, 01:43 PM
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You're Top Poster: #106   | Hi from Canberra man Hi Folks. I'm Ken. Done a bit! In a way I did all three services! When I left school at fourteen, I worked on the Grimsby naval base HMS Beaver as a naval messenger for two years. I wanted to do my NS in the RAF but they werent taking any so I ended up in the Royal Artillery. Being a glutton for punishment, I was in the Royal Air force with in five months after demob. I trained as electrical mechanic and was posted to 617 squadron at Binbrook on Lincolns. Within six months I was on my fitters course and came back in time to greet the first Canberra B2. in 1955 we went on detatchment to Butterworth in Malaya dropping 1,000 pounders on the terrs. Spent 27 years with Air Cadets. At 77 years young I am doing a bit at the Dumfries Aviation museum making cockpits look nicer. I also help my wife breeding dogs, at the moment we are rearing a beautiful litter of miniature poodles. They go to new homes very soon, we have two left. Thats my hstory, glad to be with you all. Ken |
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24-03-2008, 02:00 PM
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You're Top Poster: #22 | Welcome to the forum, Ken. I am a new boy too, but they have been very welcoming so far!! I think that your thread title will have our Ozzie's running; they will think that they have another of their own here. Best of luck at the museum! Roxy
__________________ Remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 RAF, killed on duty in Afghanistan 2 Sep 06.  |
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24-03-2008, 02:34 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Welcome Ken. Kitty will love your 617sq association. Glad to see you here and look forward to your posts. Please let us know how you found us.
__________________ 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; 24-03-2008 at 02:37 PM. |
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24-03-2008, 02:36 PM
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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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24-03-2008, 06:20 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | 617?! *Has a hyper attack*
__________________ "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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24-03-2008, 06:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #18 | Welcome and enjoy.!!!!!!
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24-03-2008, 06:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #12  | Welcome Ken, I'm also ex service and at the moment i'm serving with 2410 Squadron ATC. Any tips would be appreciated, lol. Welcome to the forum and i'm sure you'll really enjoy the guys and gals in here, they are pretty good in here, well i guess they are, haha. 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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24-03-2008, 10:48 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | A big welcome to you, Ken. I hope you enjoy it here. Very interested to see your Lincoln and Canberra experience. We have a fellow Canberra "veteran" in the form of mfg - he went on their last o/s deployment recently. We've got a toy poodle at home called Monty. He's a real character and we couldn't wish for a better dog.
__________________ 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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