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January 21, 2013 at 11:52 am in reply to: DH4 Survivors and Replicas #953337

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David.
Replica or otherwise, that is a pretty aeroplane.
Thanks for posting.
Andy

January 21, 2013 at 9:15 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #953502

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John.
Looking good as ever.
Andy

January 20, 2013 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Dogfight Gaza 1917 #954635

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Work then I guess.
I do like Alsace–nice part of the World.

January 20, 2013 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Dogfight Gaza 1917 #954789

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Brian.
Good luck with the trip.
Going anywhere nice..?

By 1917, units were so mixed that being in a yeomanry unit didn’t necessarily mean a horsey background. Especially as they were a dismounted unit.
I thought it was worth asking though.

Andy

January 20, 2013 at 5:38 pm in reply to: Dogfight Gaza 1917 #954799

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Brian.
I just realised that the book I want is stored elsewhere at present. So as soon as this blinkin snow melts I’ll get over to where they are and have a look about your original question.

However, I very quickly found this:-

12th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Battalion

Formed at Ismailia in Egypt on 4 January 1917 from dismounted yeomanry regiment.
January 1917 : came under orders of 229th Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division.
30 April 1918 : embarked at Alexandria for Marseilles, landing 7 May.

Do you know if Private James Benjamin was involved with horses before the war?

Andy.

January 20, 2013 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Dogfight Gaza 1917 #954814

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Brian.
Fascinating stuff.
Would you mind telling me firstly what unit your wife’s great Grandfather belonged to..?

I’ll look up losses etc and report back.
Andy

January 19, 2013 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #955952

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Thanks John.
Looking forward to it.
A.

January 19, 2013 at 8:08 am in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #956501

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Thanks chaps.
As a kid I remember seeing I think three of those tall steel masts–I don’t remember the wooden CH towers as they went before I arrived.
One of those steel towers was shorter than the others and my Dad always told me that it was the one hit.

It was only a couple of miles away from there at Colney, that on a foggy morning in I would think 1940, my Dad was out shooting and a Heinkel 111 flew over him so low that he reckons it went under a line of power cables that ran across the fields there in the direction of the old A11 road.
He said he could see the face of a crew member in the under fuselage gondola windows.

January 18, 2013 at 10:15 pm in reply to: Biplane ID #956899

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Certainly AVRO Tutor.

January 18, 2013 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Hawker Hurricane Book? #957071

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Lord Hiscock of Southsea wrote this one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hawker-Hurricane-Inside-Melvyn-Hiscock/dp/1861266308/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358537303&sr=1-3

I don’t know if it’s the one you saw but it ain’t bad.
My cat didn’t like it but as Melv loves cats–I don’t think he minded.

A.

January 18, 2013 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #957425

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Bob.
Yes please.

Drop me a PM.
A.

January 18, 2013 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Crated Spitfire #957534

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You mean we can’t make fun of art nor literature? I’m devastated.

T J

TJ, I take nothing seriously–least of all me.

January 18, 2013 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #957559

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Bob.
The book says ‘Slotman’ too, but I just thought this was a mis-print.
It’s certainly Newton Flotman.
Thanks for the further info though.
Keith Deyell apparently landed by a railway line.
The main Norwich-Ipswich-London mainline is close by, so I kind of guessed it would that railway line–of course it could be one of many others.

Andy.

January 18, 2013 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Crated Spitfire #957753

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Could we put all the ‘spam’ contributions in General Discussion or somewhere, and try to restore the content/quality on the main board?

Quality, oh come on.
Where was that..?
Why does this have to be so serious..?
It’s an internet forum about aeroplanes–it isn’t art or literature.

January 18, 2013 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Stirling Crash, Norfolk, July 1941 #957758

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Thanks John.
Looking forward to it.
A.
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