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13-12-2007, 12:41 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10   | Professor John Hudson GM* John Hudson who has died aged 96 was an eminent Professor of Horticulture, and it would seem a man of many interests. He was a Bomb Disposal officer during the war and was awarded the George Medal and Bar. Professor John Hudson - Telegraph |
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13-12-2007, 12:51 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Nerves of steel. His sons appear to have made a name for themselves as well.
__________________ 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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13-12-2007, 09:47 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Nerves of steel indeed.
__________________ 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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14-12-2007, 12:53 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | Thinking more about John Hudson today, his story underlines the fact that the two world wars were very much citizens wars. Ordinary people, who would normally have had no thought of joining the armed forces, volunteering and being placed into situations requiring incredible courage and fortitude. "The salt of the earth.." |
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