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05-11-2007, 09:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | The Poppy Thread Post your pics of poppies here. Whether you've taken pics of poppies at cemeteries, memorials, during parades or worn by friends, families or veterans, please share!
__________________ 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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05-11-2007, 11:41 PM
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You're Top Poster: #8  | Hi Andy There are some beautiful photos here http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/d...tCatID=&camID= CTNana p.s. I don't know how you make a link to the www.bbc.co.uk but in the story of Harry Patch, one of 5 surviving WW1 veterans, there are also some lovely shots. p.p.s. best wishes to your sister and her husband Last edited by CTNana; 05-11-2007 at 11:42 PM. Reason: looks like I've done it!!!! Made the link that is! |
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05-11-2007, 11:52 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Thanks CT. Will hopefully post my Gallipoli poppy shots tonight.
__________________ 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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06-11-2007, 07:59 PM
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You're Top Poster: #16 | Dad and I are going tomorrow, to pay our respects, we have a poppy cross each we brought back from Flanders. I'll take some pic's of all the poppies and poppy wreaths. Then we will go to the IWM to see the new exhibition. |
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07-11-2007, 12:40 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | I have sort of "adopted" a local Memorial that stands in the front of a church about 10 minutes from me. Unlike the other two memorials within 10 minutes walking distance, this one doesn't get a lot of attention. The attached pictures are of the Pembroke Road Memorial, but not taken on Rembrance Day (I always feel odd taking pictures on the day). I have all the names listed but haven't had a chance to get their details off the CWGC. The other two memorials are: The Main One in the Centre, which is the main centre for the day: http://markamis-views.fotopic.net/p30763050.html and the Memorial about 2 mins from me on the Triangle, which is originally a Boer war Memorial (as can be seen by this 1907 postcard - it is virtually identical to now except around the Memorial there is grass, and the road around is very busy) http://legadz.free.fr/england/pages/war_mem.htm
__________________ _________________  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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07-11-2007, 12:52 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | "Your" one could do with a spruce up!
__________________ 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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07-11-2007, 12:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Yes, that's why I've adopted it. Pretty forgotten about. Had a chat with the vicar about a year ago but it's a question of money/time/volunteers. But structurally sound.
__________________ _________________ 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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07-11-2007, 01:01 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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07-11-2007, 01:23 AM
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Incidentally does anyone know why all early postcards were watermarked or stamped with the French "Carte de Poste"? I know it is the translation but were they a French idea or was the company who printed them located in France?
__________________ Regards CTNana  Last edited by CTNana; 07-11-2007 at 01:39 AM. Reason: typos!!!! | |
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07-11-2007, 01:35 AM
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However, maybe worth checking the history of postcards on google.
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