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10-10-2007, 09:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | This is the "association" that I meant! Beechey Boys - 5 Lost sons WW1 These boys were in predominantly British Regiments. Beechey Boys; War took five of eight sons, another was crippled. War took five of eight sons, another was crippled. from the Sunday Times of WA With thanks to Sandra Playle of WA
__________________ 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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10-10-2007, 10:31 AM
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They wouldn't write home to their mothers because if the did, the mothers would know where there were and be able to claim them back, for being underage. | |
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10-10-2007, 10:37 AM
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One 15/16? year old was actually shot for cowardice in the face of the enemy.
__________________ 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; 10-10-2007 at 12:49 PM. | |
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10-10-2007, 10:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #16 | I visited the place where they were shot at dawn, and in the two cells, there is lots of writing on the walls, they wrote/scratched on before their deaths. The cells are full of poppy crosses, and little notes. The post is still there!!! Last edited by sgt petts; 10-10-2007 at 10:55 AM. Reason: spelling |
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11-10-2007, 12:28 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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11-10-2007, 12:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sullivans Current Arleigh Burke class DDG serving in the USN but not the first ship to be named after the brothers: http://www.sullivans.navy.mil/
__________________ 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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26-10-2007, 09:24 AM
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