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23-09-2007, 09:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11   | Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project Hi All, In view of the cost of a photograph from the private websites such as the Maple Leaf Legacy and the BWMP i have decided to start a new Project, the aims of the project are set out below. I am already working with The Veterans Affairs Canada team and have been working with them for the last year or so. I'm hoping to also be working with a New Zealand and South African goverments who i have been in contact with for the last few weeks. The Project is called The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project and here are the aims. The aim of this project is to work in conjunction with the governments or similar bodies in each Commonwealth Country to develop or contribute to a source of FREE online information of their war casualties. Our hope is to include all the information we can, including attestation papers, service records, medal records, war diaries, photographs of headstones and memorials and any other information available. If you are interested in helping with such a project or you are looking for a relative and would like our help please join our group and become a part of the Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. COMMONWEALTH ROLL OF HONOUR PROJECTS Please email me or PM me should you wish to help or if you have any questions. I hope that you will be able to join the Project and look forward to working with anyone who wishes to help. A proper website will hopefully be up and running within the next couple of months. Best wishes Mike (Sniper) 
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23-09-2007, 09:59 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | You should get in contact with Spidge, he has a lot of Roll of honour stuff regarding the RAAF in WW2
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23-09-2007, 10:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Hi Mike, A very worthwhile project . Are you speaking with anyone in Australia about this? Good luck with your trip to Canada.
__________________ 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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23-09-2007, 10:04 PM
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Spidge and i have been working together for a few months now providing each other with photos. Hoping that Spidge will hold the RAAF database where people will be able to get free photos and information. Cheers Mike
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23-09-2007, 10:05 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Hi Spidge, I've been talking to the Australian goverment about it and have recieved a reply but awaiting another from their photographic department. Mike
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23-09-2007, 10:15 PM
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I am chasing something up for you however it is early days. Sadly I can't be more help being isolated in this tiny island.
__________________ 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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23-09-2007, 10:23 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Good luck with the project Sniper. Keep us informed. And I think this thread deserves to be stickied for easy reference
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23-09-2007, 10:35 PM
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You're Top Poster: #11 | Thankyou Quote:
I have been talking to as i said the Australian Goverment and also to the Auckland War Museum. Not yet had a reply from the South Africans and i'm in talks with the Royal British Legion about them hosting the British War Casualties. Hoping to have more talks with them in the very near future. If anyone has any requests i'll do my best to fulfill them if i can. Many thanks again Mike
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13-10-2007, 06:40 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Hi Mike Can't believe I haven't said good luck on this thread so...good luck with this project (probably said it elsewhere but to be sure...). Came back to this thread because I was just going through some pics a friend sent through from Tripoli War Cememtery, Libya. I'm not sure I sent everything I had through to Spidge. However, in going back through the pics, I came across an RNZAF headstone and several RAF ones. I will email them to you but also post them here for use by members or people researching. Won't be many, maybe three or four.
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13-10-2007, 11:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #18 | Sounds a real worthwhile project. Here's to its future and hopefully complete success. Good luck !!!!!
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