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Post by ozneil on May 19, 2015 21:12:13 GMT -1
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 18:07:23 GMT -1
22 years of age. FFS.
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Post by ozneil on May 20, 2015 19:54:49 GMT -1
Yes they were young..... bloody politians. Mind you for once it wasnt UK's fault My Mother's Brother joined up at 16... He was killed on the Somme
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 20:35:38 GMT -1
Bejasus. Utterly brutal.
My late father joined the RAF at 17, that would be 1942. Stationed in the Azores until 1945. My mum as a young teen was evacuated out of Clydebank about that time and went to school in the relative safety of Inverness.
Her siblings, all 6 of them, and my granpa, worked at Singer and John Browns: all survived through the Blitz while many neighbours and friends didn't. So utterly random when you think about it.
Houses on either side of theirs took direct hits. Granny tried to tell us kids about it once in the early 60s but one of our uncles changed the subject and put the radio on for Saturday night country dancing instead.
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Post by ozneil on May 20, 2015 21:42:24 GMT -1
The first Commonwealth action in WW1 was in Port Philip Bay (Melbourne) when the coastal batteries fired warning shots to stop a German freighter escaping.
Scottish Uncle was RAF stationed in Takoradi (Ghana), Hudsons and Nutts Corner (Belfast), Catalinas
Main job in Takoradi was shepherding planes from Takoradi where they were assembled over Africa to Wadi Halfa in the Sudan so that they wouldnt get lost
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