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We should remember them! Robert Butler

Even in Lockdown We stood at the gate and remembered them.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

… complete with macrons too (coincidentally been learning about those somewhere else recently).

I remember the ANZAC clubs in the Pacific Islands above Australia from my Merchant Navy days. It was from the days of tramp ships voyages of between 7 to 10 months were the norm it was a good life for a single bloke. We use to pick up copra from round the islands the ship was then full of black copra bugs.

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We should all pay tribute to those who gave so much to defend things that we now tend to take for granted.

Howard

Oldvelo asks earlier in the Trump thread what one on Trump has to do with model engineering. I suggest that it’s a lot more relevant than this thread that follows it, about ANZAC Day, which, incidentally, I found most moving. Remembering Gallipoli is unlikely to get the world involved in a major military conflict, whereas having an unstable ignoramus in charge of a nation with probably the most potential to destroy us all, model engineers included, needs our attention. If focussing our attention on this via a spot of humour upsets the religious offenderati then I suggest listening to some of Christopher Hitchens or Bill Maher’s pieces on YouTube might change their perspectives.

The UK owes much to Commonwealth armed forces in both World Wars and in other emergencies. I remember reading immediately after Dunkirk that the only trained, organised and fully equipped ground forces in England were a small British Brigade and a full Canadian Division. The rest of the British Army were either raw recruits or had lost all their heavy equipment at Dunkirk. Most of the army was at least a year from becoming effective again, scary.

Having the Canadians present in good fighting order stiffened British resolve to carry on. And I'm sure the Nazi's would have had a tough time with them had they managed to get past the RN and RAF and on to the beaches. Chilling to think of South East England being a high-intensity battleground, but a Canadian victory there might have ended WW2 in 1940. A failed invasion of England would have pricked the myth that Hitler was invincible, which is why he chose not to risk it.

Dave

Thanks Bruce and all the other considerate people who remembered ANZAC Day.

It is strange to think that us people down-under remember a military disaster (Gallipoli) but it was a bonding moment for the people of the new nations in the southern seas.

My late uncle-in-law Maurice Jessop landed at ANZAC Cove aged 15 with the 4th Bn. I was quite honoured to be his mate after I married. After Gallipoli Maurice served on the Western front and the only thing he told me was that it was a bit scary to go 'back-packing across no-mans-land behind the German lines to grab a prisoner or just to creat a bit of merry hell'.

Myself joined the Australian Army when the Vietnam War was winding down and the recruiters made me count cogs and gear ratios and decided to make me into an electronics techo.

Many happy hours were then spent machining basics. I loved the lathework but filing a steel cube with 1" sides soon got a bit tedious.

I managed to pass this phase and once I got into a unit life just got better. The mates I made back then are the best blokes that I ever worked with, Ended up doing 30 years with a bit of Emergency Reserve duty.

If I had my time again I would probably do the same again.

Here is a great rendition of The Last Post by a talented young lady Last Post

Lest We Forget

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The Trump thread had political and religious content, two items that are not allowed under the T&Cs. This thread is neither.

The fact that Neil has also participated would also seem to suggest he is happy with the subject.

My grandfather fought at Gallipoli, he was in the British Army and was lucky he survived the First World War. He left the Army in 1920 and went on to have a very productive life passing away in his eighties, he never spoke of his experiences like so many veterans of the First World War.
Dave W