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30-03-2008, 05:40 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | HMCS Cobalt HMCS Cobalt Call sign: CGQR A few links of interest to one of the ship's Richard's father sailed on during ww2. Good to see there are some full crew B&W photos available from one of the posters on U-Boat .com. HMCS Cobalt J - Royal Canadian Navy World War II Quote:
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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 Last edited by spidge; 30-03-2008 at 07:33 AM. | ||||
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30-03-2008, 05:49 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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30-03-2008, 07:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | K124 COBALT Became Dutch JOHANNA W. Vinke 1953 - 1961 Scrapped 15 Dec 1961 in South Africa.
__________________ 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; 30-03-2008 at 07:26 AM. |
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30-03-2008, 02:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #17  | Thanks for the links! The BEE was of great importance and my father had a a very detailed model of a Corvette in the den, so now I know which one it was, I remember the Bee and the Swastika. I have not found the crew pictures yet that are mentioned .... must be doing something wrong. Then I update the page for my father on the family tree web site and buggered that up as well. One of those days! |
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30-03-2008, 11:30 PM
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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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31-03-2008, 02:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #17 | Have I told you about how much I love Microsoft Vista and how if messes up all the web sites that were done with Front Page in XP? And now they do not even support Front Page anymore. I am going to have to delete the site and reload it from the archives. All to add the Cobalt link! I now have to go pull out some more hair. I will post the link one it is back in operation. |
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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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02-04-2008, 03:17 AM
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You're Top Poster: #17 | The COBALT pictures are over in the Atlantic Convoys, as I forgot Spidge started this post after: Canada - The Atlantic Convoys The fellow Rick who sent the pictures is listed in that topic. And yes, I have recovered from the catastrophic VISTA attack and the Laughton Family Genealogy is back in business. Not sure why anyone would have an interest in that but someone did: Laughton Family History 1771 Onwards We do find in our Canadian group that family genealogy and military history do cross many paths as you can't do one without the other. There are WWI web sites about my two grandfathers that are separate from that site: Great War - George Van Wyck Laughton, M.C. World War One - Josiah Chancellor Kennedy |
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