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13-06-2008, 04:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | My first VC Saw my first VC (that I can remember, but safe to say my first) today at the Shrine of Rememberance here in Melbourne. It was this chap's: Grieve VC Which VCs have forum members been in the presence of?
__________________ 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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13-06-2008, 05:04 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13  | These are the VC's that I have seen in person; (Air Force Museum, Christchurch) *Jimmy Ward *Leonard Trent *Lloyd Trigg I also saw all of the VC's awarded to every Australian during WW1/WW2 at the AWM when I went to see "G" George. Beat that! ^^
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" Last edited by Pathfinder; 13-06-2008 at 05:08 AM. |
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13-06-2008, 05:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Quote:
They're not quite all there but it's the biggest collection of Australian VCs.
__________________ 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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13-06-2008, 05:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | True  I watched a documentary on YouTube about the VC, presented by Jeremy Clarkson. He said there are six VC's at Hancocks in London, un-engraved, waiting to be awarded. He also talked about what it took to win Britain's highest medal for valour.
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" Last edited by Pathfinder; 13-06-2008 at 08:21 AM. |
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13-06-2008, 06:17 AM
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You're Top Poster: #9 | Hi All, I've been very fortunate. I've been to the Museum at Christchusrch about 18 months ago on a cricket tour, the VCs at the AWM and a special display of VCs and George Crosses at the IWM in London. The latter was the first time that I had ever seen a VC with a blue ribbon. I was also privileged to meet Sir Leonard Cheshire VC many years ago. As I said, I've been very fortunate. Cheers Owen Last edited by Nostalgair; 13-06-2008 at 06:24 AM. |
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13-06-2008, 06:20 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13 | You're very lucky indeed to have met Leonard Cheshire, Owen
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13-06-2008, 08:19 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | I don't think I've ever seen a VC up close  I certainly don't remember seeing any at the IWM in my visits (but then again it has been many years since I've been)Quote:
Jeremy Clarkson - VC Prog
__________________ _________________  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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13-06-2008, 08:48 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Didn't Prince Charles do a documentary on the awarding of the VC?
__________________ 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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13-06-2008, 08:51 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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14-06-2008, 01:35 AM
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Naval VCs had blue ribbons until about 1917. I have seen some VCs in "Firepower", the Royal Artillery Museum in the old Woolwich Arsenal. One that I remember is that of Major (later Group Captain) Lionel Rees, CO of 32 squadron RFC; he was originally an Artilleryman. As to Grieve having a great uncle who was awarded a VC in the Crimean War: Eugene Esmonde also had a great uncle who was awarded a VC in the Crimean War. | ||
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