I would like to see him found and interred with proper respect Dave. I would also like to add it extends further than “Those who know me know how much I care about the people who served in our Air Forces” I have a couple of relatives with no known graves who are in the mud of Passchendaele. just simple “Brown Jobs” doing their bit for King and Country there are 140,000 of them. Dead nearly 100 years, never known by me but never forgotten either.

In Flanders Fields by John MacRae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

I believe you have the date wrong it first flew on 8 January 1944. Whatever I have always liked the looks of that aircraft.

Thats a strange beast. A right hand drive “woody” My recognition skills are letting me down is it a Ford?

I think you will find that at the end of the war most British Servicemen did not look further than hoping their loved ones were still alive, their home was still standing and they could find a job. Don’t forget for years many of them were living a minute at a time and hoping their number was not up! The myth “A land fit for heroes” was well and truely considered dead soon after WW1. I would think from talking to my family many years ago the idea of i want it now and instant credit and damn tomorrow would take a lot of getting used to, also people expecting respect without doing anything to earn it.

Great shot especialy from a phone. I love the line astern formation. I hope we have more weather like this in the comming months

Jim

The problem is indoor toilets – not having to trot down the garden at 2 o’clock on a cold January morning has bred a nation of wimps (using a chamber pot was cheating, by the way).

So were you poor and used squares of newspaper on a nail or have the luxury of Jeyes,Bronco or Izal toilet paper? I swear that stuff was created by a masochist!

Moggy, thankyou for you considered action or lack of it. I would very much like to hear your take on the topic if you have time to post it. Maybe it got me on a bad day and the two people who wound me up were not British born and bred so I ask the forum to excuse me that rant. I am certainly not racist and indeed a comrade of mine who was Fijian saved me from serious injury or death in a situation in NI at great risk to himself, (the details don’t matter apart from the fact I froze like a rabbit) If I say anymore I will either talk myself into further trouble or try and mitigate my previous post.