Interesting Ebay find with a forgotten history
- Thread starter steve1973
- Start date
- Location
- Atascadero, California USA
Bravo. Well found! Joe
- Location
- land of f-cktards
Good find!
This prompt me to see If any of my extended family died in WW2. I found a couple of "Malan's" keep in mind only one went to the Cape of good hope in 1779. So we are all related but it steretches over 300years
This is what I found.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchRe...1945&force=&nationality=5&send.x=32&send.y=15
This prompt me to see If any of my extended family died in WW2. I found a couple of "Malan's" keep in mind only one went to the Cape of good hope in 1779. So we are all related but it steretches over 300years
This is what I found.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchRe...1945&force=&nationality=5&send.x=32&send.y=15
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetary
Great story about the helmet. I noted that Gill is in Groesbeek CWC.
Went there last year to visit a relative from Regina Rifles and place flowers.
This cemetery was set up as a final resting place for the Canadians KIA in the area and many of the fellows were reburied there from battle graves and other local cemeteries.
Quite out of the way and in rolling farm country but I am sure the boys there like it that way.
Second time I visited the place; if you go there make sure you have your cab wait for you or plan a hike back towards Nijmegan like we did.
RIP
Great story about the helmet. I noted that Gill is in Groesbeek CWC.
Went there last year to visit a relative from Regina Rifles and place flowers.
This cemetery was set up as a final resting place for the Canadians KIA in the area and many of the fellows were reburied there from battle graves and other local cemeteries.
Quite out of the way and in rolling farm country but I am sure the boys there like it that way.
Second time I visited the place; if you go there make sure you have your cab wait for you or plan a hike back towards Nijmegan like we did.
RIP
NavyShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- XMU Local .303
I was at Groesbeek on VE day in 2005.
What a beautiful, quiet, peaceful spot.
NS
What a beautiful, quiet, peaceful spot.
NS
Cocked&Locked
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- S. Ontario
NavyShooter said:
No matter what happens here, if your ever in Stratford, look me up, you get free beer just for making that offer
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
I should think that the helmet, like other usable kit would have been salvaged and reissued or probably sent back with quartermaster stores and eventualy returned.
