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15-05-2008, 06:40 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Arnos Vale (Bristol) Cemetery Restoration Good to see that the project is finally starting. Amongst those buried are 510 WW1 and WW2 casualties: BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Work starts to restore cemetery Quote:
__________________ _________________  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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16-05-2008, 07:50 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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16-05-2008, 09:07 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | We have one Aussie (RAAF) there however I do not have a photo of the grave yet. There are also a few AIF. In Memory of Sergeant WILFRED SHAPCOTT 419503, Royal Australian Air Force who died age 22 on 06 September 1943 Son of Thomas Coomb Shapcott and Daisy May Shapcott, of Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Remembered with honour BRISTOL (ARNOS VALE) CEMETERY 
__________________ 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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16-05-2008, 09:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I'm going to see what the disruption will be. If it's OK I'll try to pop down for a photo.
__________________ _________________ 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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