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Old 08-10-2007, 10:14 AM   #1 (permalink)
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A nice little tribute to a member of Bomber Command from Ceylon who flew 52 Operations:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tcosgrove/rohan.html
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Old 08-10-2007, 10:17 AM   #2 (permalink)
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And from the same site (The Halifax Appreciation Society), another Ceylonese member of BC:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tcosgrove/ananda.html
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Old 08-10-2007, 01:33 PM   #3 (permalink)
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What an excellent website. Amazed it's Australian based.
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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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well, even the Aussies do something right every so often It is a fantastic site - I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.
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My thoughts exactly.
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well, even the Aussies do something right every so often It is a fantastic site - I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.
You must admit that most of the government sites are done extremely well!
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"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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You must admit that most of the government sites are done extremely well!
Definately agree on that Spidge. Australia has the best WW2 information made available by any Commonwealth government. Just the number of databases to check on service personnel is amazing.

Why can't the UK get its act together E.g the Australian Roll Of Honour has a much better search engine than the CWGC
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Why can't the UK get its act together E.g the Australian Roll Of Honour has a much better search engine than the CWGC
Not perfect as I found out with the RAAF search however cross referencing them with the Nominal roll, I only have five question marks out of 10,835 deaths.

Speaking of the CWGC, I found three errors while doing the cataloguing (cemetery details) and the CWGC here have passed them on to HQ in London.

Will have to check to see if they have been corrected.
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Will have to check to see if they have been corrected.
Good luck - they can be a bit slow, as I found when noticing wrong squadron details. However, the IWM is great for correcting captions on their photos (provided the right evidence is given)
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