I find that getting a Cleaning Tuna in the back seat does wonders for getting an airplane neat and tidy.

What???? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
Patty, have you been sniffing the Lagavulin again?

However, Dave,
my dad who’s an Eighth Army Veteran tells me everything was washed down in petrol in North Africa because water was always so short and petrol wasn’t.
This included clothes, not only did it bleach War Office standard issue uniforms to a much lighter shade but killed any unwanted visitors that lived in the seams! Cooking was also done over petrol fires too. To make a fire you took one large empty ‘Bully Beef’ tin, filled it with sand and then soaked the sand with several gallons of petrol. Once alight it would last several hours. Once when a young officer was first out from England he said to my Dad ‘Jones, get a couple of men to go and gather wood for a fire’. Dad had to tactfully explain that there wasn’t a tree for about 150 miles so the likelyhood of firewood was low!
Also to give you some idea what a British soldier on active service in North Africa looked like in WW2, Dad had a pair of German jack boots for a while (his real ones disintegrated–and the German didn’t need them anymore–if you know what I mean) a pair of shorts cut down from trousers (plus one pair of trousers left intact–plus a battledress tunic bleached very light by petrol.
He wore a 9mm Beretta on the hip cowboy style (borrowed from an Italian POW)–not much use for killing the enemy but very useful for dispatching rabid dogs at a safe distance. Not exactly parade ground style but practical. The Desert Air Force looked exactly the same too apparently.
Cheers
Andy

Is there a Legends o4 DVD that will play here in the USA? If so, where can I get one?
Thanks,
Lynn

Lynn
drop Steve Patterson a PM. He recently picked up a multi-region DVD player in the States for $100.00 that plays everything.
He’s now happily watching his way through the mountain of Brit DVD’s people here have sent him.
I think it was someone on E-bay that supplies them.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Andy

My Great Grandfather was in the BEF as a Lancer.

Snapper
Is that rather fine fine wedding portrait in colour as a result of your photoshopping skills?
It doesn’t look like one of those tinted B&W pictures that were sometimes done back then.
I have a tinted portrait of my Grandfather wearing hospital blue taken while he was convalescing from the western front.
Cheers
Andy

Well a sensible question deserves a sensible answer.

Britain in 1914 had a very small contribution to make to the land war on the continent.
The British Expeditionary force consisted of only six divisions (five of Infantry and one of cavalry).
So they only made up a very small part of the allied forces on land.
I suspect the Germans probably wouldn’t have prevailed in 1914 whether the British were fighting or not, however the Imperial German Army would have remained in being and without that army being defeated a negotiated peace would have been the only option for the French. So it could have been like 1871 again.

Later in the war, the British (and Commonwealth) forces were vital to final allied victory but the huge citizen armies of 1917/18 didn’t exist in 1914.
Well it’s a start.
Cheers
Andy
PS To stop Moggy, Mark and the other moderators saying we’re off topic.
The Royal Flying Corps went to France in August 1914 with four squadrons, No’s 2,3,4 and 5.

The Great War….

Anna, sorry Mark 9.
Before I embark on a long and detailed answer to that, why are you asking??
Last Friday night we had Pearl Harbo(u)r and now we’ve got The Schlieffen Plan.
Are you studying twentieth century history for an A level or something??
Cheers
Andy
PS Take an umbrella to East Kirkby tomorrow.

Great shots–really great.
Thanks for posting.
Cheers
Andy

The Burberry Vulcan, I reckon she’d look good in fighting tartan and blue neons 🙂

Will she over all ‘fightin tartan’ in a wrap-round scheme or top surface only with white undersides?
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