Talking about the 14-18 war.
How many people born in your town or village served in the Australian Army?

Kev, just for you 83 were born in Walsall.
Go here.

http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/map.aspx?d=vic

click on overseas then England and pick your area.
Then pick your man and you can read his Army record.

Its absolutly fasinating reading.

Jim just for you.

Confides had to be spelt, Expects was already there, so it was
England expects

But wether it was Kiss me or Miss me no one really nows. ;):D

Didn’t a one armed, one eyed old Norfolk boy,have something to do with it?

What do you make of this then?

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/woman_who_met_jimmy_savile_in_dereham_tells_of_dirty_old_man_1_1660518

My thoughts on this.

Army
Rank Oberfeldwebel = UK/US Master Sergeant/Quartermaster Sergeant.

Luftwaffe = USAAF Master Sergeant UK. Flight Sergeant.

Div. W.M. Schonberger. Schonberger is not a named Division.
Div is not a rank that I know. could it mean Driver?

Schonberger is a popular name in germany and the US.

We do not know when or where this clock and stand was assembled.
Was it done in N Africa as the date on the base?

Or was it done in a POW camp later and the date is when the two men were captured, as this would be the time the axis would be retreating?

I was half expecting a thread about rain…….

Yes but they are equal then, both making you wet.

Yes it is BD.

(Yesterday, Mr Beckett’s daughter Gill Bradley, 54, a dental nurse who lives in Beaumaris on the Island of Anglesley, said: “I can’t believe how my dad was treated. He lost his house and his savings to pay for his care and it’s not right. “Of course I’m glad he was in a good home where he was treated with such respect, dignity and love. It’s a shame that he didn’t get the same treatment from the government.”)

No he did not lose his house and savings. SHE lost it.

(“It’s too late for my family but I hope this helps other families to safe guard their inheritance. ‘We all want to help out children and grandchildren and pass money down the line but there is little to show for what an amazing life my dad had.)

Thats all this story is about she lost out on receiving an inheritance.

One stranded on suffolk coast.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/whale_washed_up_on_suffolk_coast_1_1538215