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19-05-2008, 10:51 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Headstones/Memorials of Aussies in the AFC/RFC/RNAS/RAF WW1 I have decided to collect all Great War Flying Corps deaths to compliment my RAAF list. Inclusive of Aussies in British Corps, I am looking for 312 photos. The "Pals" on GWF have been most helpful. I will put together a list of what is still outstanding an hope someone may have some or be able to assist. One chap has just put his hand up to photograph the Arras Flying Services Memorial at Pas-de-Calais which is great. Many have gone out specially on Saturdays to photograph most of their County. The assistance is quite remarkable as it has been with those assisting with my WW2 project. Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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; 19-05-2008 at 10:53 PM. |
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20-05-2008, 08:29 AM
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__________________ _________________  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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20-05-2008, 08:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | The above forum have a picture of the Arras Flying Services Memorial with 28 Australians who served in one of the air branches: Richard Watson Howard's Headstone - The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
__________________ _________________ 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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20-05-2008, 01:26 PM
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I did not know that Sir Arthur Coningham was Australian. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand. Nor that his middle name was "Mary".
__________________ 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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01-06-2008, 08:51 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13  | Hi Spidge, Thought you might go down this line, can you send me a list of outstanding ones as i may have them. I'm just about to email you one from Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Canada. Just found it amongst some i was naming. These are his details Name: LORD, DOUGLAS MERVYN Initials: D M Nationality: Australian Rank: Leading Aircraftman Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force Age: 22 Date of Death: 06/05/1941 Service No: 400721 Additional information: Son of George Walter and Eliza Ellen Lord, of Essendon, Victoria, Australia. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 29. Lot 1. Grave 105. Cemetery: OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY I'll be emailing it straight away for you. 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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02-06-2008, 03:17 AM
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I assume you mean outstanding WW1! Please let me know. Thanks for the Canadian photo! I have 32 on the Ottawa Memorial and one other at Beechwood (Long) Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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07-06-2008, 01:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | Do you have the list for the Ottawa memorial. I'll get them sorted tonight and i'll email the photos to you. 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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09-06-2008, 06:43 PM
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Thanks for your help. Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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12-06-2008, 10:20 PM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | Hi Spidge, I think that the 1941 plaques are on my other camera which i don't have right now. I'll get it back from the person i loaned it out to and check it. Not sure if i have the one from Beechwood but i will check. They maybe on my other computer as i took them in 2006. Sniper
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