Part of the problem was the usual British sense of superiority and infallibility, for which they paid dearly.
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Part of the problem was the usual British sense of superiority and infallibility, for which they paid dearly.
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Dark Alley Dan
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A Batallion of the Cameron Highlanders, 1914 and 1918:
Lest we forget.
Lest we forget.
A Batallion of the Cameron Highlanders, 1914 and 1918:
Lest we forget.
Battalion strength before and after WW1? That wouldn't surprise me. Lest we forget...
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Australian Matilda II CS with 3" howitzer. A nightmare for the enemy. If you look closely you might see enemy hamburger clogging up the skirts. Lest we forget.
The Australians obtained 400 Matilda II tanks, a large # the CS variant. They knew what fit the bill.
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I see pics!
Yup, those "internment camps" were death traps and the basis of later day CONCENTRATION CAMP technology. Many thousands of Boer women and children died in those hell holes from all sorts of nasty illnesses that were more prolific because of the poor rations and filthy water combined with filthy conditions.
Mind you, a lot of the soldiers sent to South Africa died from similar afflictions.
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That's what the original caption said. I'm guessing the twenty seven men and one officer were all that remained from the first group. Replacements would have come and gone.
Just seems appropriate for today - a few of the pictures I took on a bus tour to Juno Beach and area in August:
German Battery at Longues sur Mer:
Canadian War Cemetery at Beny sur Mer, mostly causalities from D Day and shortly thereafter:
I found this headstone interesting in that the deceased soldier was from the Rocky Mountain Rangers but was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment:
German Battery at Longues sur Mer:
Canadian War Cemetery at Beny sur Mer, mostly causalities from D Day and shortly thereafter:
I found this headstone interesting in that the deceased soldier was from the Rocky Mountain Rangers but was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment:
Forgot that I had promised to post a picture of the Churchill AVRE tank from an earlier thread:
Just seems appropriate for today - a few of the pictures I took on a bus tour to Juno Beach and area in August:
German Battery at Longues sur Mer:
Canadian War Cemetery at Beny sur Mer, mostly causalities from D Day and shortly thereafter:
I found this headstone interesting in that the deceased soldier was from the Rocky Mountain Rangers but was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment:
Probably part of Operation Canloan where Cdn officers were posted to Brit units to make up shortages.
A Batallion of the Cameron Highlanders, 1914 and 1918:
Lest we forget.
Speaking of Edinburgh Castle and highlanders, some pictures of a Black Watch friend of mine.
Bob-Duplessis-March-1944-in-Front-of-Edinburgh-Castle
Bob-Duplessis-April-2008-in-Front-of-Edinburgh-Castle
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CANLOAN Program. 1000s of Canadian officers were loaned to the British Army to lead them at the platoon and company level. By 44 British manpower was lacking and good leaders were impossible to find as British society was class stratified.
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A Batallion of the Cameron Highlanders, 1914 and 1918:
Lest we forget.
The tree line looks too similar for pictures taken 4 years apart.
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Yeah, and the car hasn't moved in four years.
It's a composite photo, but representative of the losses suffered by the Camerons.
It's a composite photo, but representative of the losses suffered by the Camerons.
Somewhere in one of my books on British Snipers there is a photograph taken of about 25 men with their scoped rifles just before they shipped out to the Western Front in 1915. They were a group of South African volunteers on their way to fight for the British Empire.
When the war ended another picture was taken of the same group but showing only the nine men that had survived. They had the same scoped rifles but the forward wood had been cut down on all of them.
I know that was done with Ross sniper rifles but I think those were Lee Enfields. I haven't seen the picture in years so I can't be certain.
When the war ended another picture was taken of the same group but showing only the nine men that had survived. They had the same scoped rifles but the forward wood had been cut down on all of them.
I know that was done with Ross sniper rifles but I think those were Lee Enfields. I haven't seen the picture in years so I can't be certain.
