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Dark Alley Dan
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Much weirdness here:
That shows the Pipers on a LST. The runway is short, but with the LST at 10 knots into a 20 knot wind, the runway is plenty long enough to launch the plane with a single person on board.
It would be an excellent way to get a bunch of planes to the battle area. Unless the LST had decent speed in reverse, i can't see the planes landing back on the LST. So it would be a delivery ship - not a mini-carrier.
I knew a fellow who actually SAW Allenby enter Jerusalem that day.
His name was Angus Kellie and he was with the Siege Train along with his Holt tractor and his 6-inch Howitzer. He had joined up as a Gunner when the War broke out, served 6 years beginning in France and Flanders, then to Suez and actions at Gaza, Be'ersheba, Jerusalem (where he was happy not to fire a single round), Armageddon and then the dash chasing Johnny Turk all the way to Damascus and Aleppo.
Sgt. Kellie's medals were donated in his memory to the XII Manitoba Dragoons/26th Field Museum in Brandon, Manitoba, 2 years ago.
I met Sgt. Kellie when he was with the Corps of Commissionaires, working night-guard at Brandon University. I was a bit taken aback at seeing medal ribbons from the Great War being worn by a working man and we got to talking. After that, I went to bed awfully late and we would talk half the night away; I learned a LOT. Sgt. Kellie actually had considerable sympathy with the ill-equipped Turkish troops he was fighting against but he had NO respect at all for the British companies which were selling medical supplies to Turkey. In this world, he hated only three things: Camels, Fray Bentos corned beef (which he was issued every day for 6 years)..... and Field-Marshal Haig. For General Allenby he had great respect but was not sure about this "crazy little Englishman with the big nose, dressed half in uniform and half in Arab clothes", the one who was "living out in the desert with the Arabs" and "telling Allenby how to run the war". He only made the discovery that he had been close enough to touch Lawrence of Arabia after he got back to Glasgow and saw the movie.... in 1921! In addition, he was a FINE piper!
All honour to Sgt. Angus Kellie, 520 Siege Bty, R.A.
His name was Angus Kellie and he was with the Siege Train along with his Holt tractor and his 6-inch Howitzer. He had joined up as a Gunner when the War broke out, served 6 years beginning in France and Flanders, then to Suez and actions at Gaza, Be'ersheba, Jerusalem (where he was happy not to fire a single round), Armageddon and then the dash chasing Johnny Turk all the way to Damascus and Aleppo.
Sgt. Kellie's medals were donated in his memory to the XII Manitoba Dragoons/26th Field Museum in Brandon, Manitoba, 2 years ago.
I met Sgt. Kellie when he was with the Corps of Commissionaires, working night-guard at Brandon University. I was a bit taken aback at seeing medal ribbons from the Great War being worn by a working man and we got to talking. After that, I went to bed awfully late and we would talk half the night away; I learned a LOT. Sgt. Kellie actually had considerable sympathy with the ill-equipped Turkish troops he was fighting against but he had NO respect at all for the British companies which were selling medical supplies to Turkey. In this world, he hated only three things: Camels, Fray Bentos corned beef (which he was issued every day for 6 years)..... and Field-Marshal Haig. For General Allenby he had great respect but was not sure about this "crazy little Englishman with the big nose, dressed half in uniform and half in Arab clothes", the one who was "living out in the desert with the Arabs" and "telling Allenby how to run the war". He only made the discovery that he had been close enough to touch Lawrence of Arabia after he got back to Glasgow and saw the movie.... in 1921! In addition, he was a FINE piper!
All honour to Sgt. Angus Kellie, 520 Siege Bty, R.A.
Fixed gear?? What is it?
Allenby entersJerusalem on foot with his staff.
I suppose the guy on the horse is an MP.
Allenby entered Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate on foot, rather than by vehicle or on horseback, as a sign of respect.
Dark Alley Dan
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Good stuff, Smellie.
Sgt. Kellie could tell people he fought at Armageddon. Not everyone could say that.
Not yet, anyhow.
I like the big smile! That's one happy Stuka.
my dad told me about his experiences , of been under attack by the Stuka dive bomber, first at the Hook Of Holland, in May, 1940, when his battalion covered the evacuation of the Dutch Royal family, and at Boulogne, France, later that month, he said it was pretty hard on the nerves for a 20 year old, along with many other young guys in his unit, the screaming siren , and howling engine noise when the Stukas began their dive, whistling sound of the bombs dropping , the anti air craft guns on the British destroyers, in the harbor, hammering away, the sounds of bombs detonating,and the feeling the shock of the bomb blast, even in his slit trench, he admitted he said his prayers, smoked more than a few cigarettes, and knew his entenching tool was his best friend
There are a number of Commonwealth War Cemeteries in present day Israel and Syria where the dead from the WW1 and WW2 campaigns are buried. I've been to the ones in Damascus and Aleppo and found them to be a real oasis in a pretty miserable setting. We used to hold our annual Remembrance Day ceremony in the one in Damascus. I wonder how these have been affected by the Syrian Civil War. The cemetery in Basra, Iraq was totally vandalized in the mess after 2003.
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Supermarine Nighthawk
The P.B.31E Nighthawk, the first project of the Pemberton-Billing operation after it became Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd., was a prototype anti-Zeppelin fighter with a crew of three to five and an intended endurance of 9–18 hours. It was first flown in February 1917 with Clifford Prodger at the controls
Never made it into service.......
The P.B.31E Nighthawk, the first project of the Pemberton-Billing operation after it became Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd., was a prototype anti-Zeppelin fighter with a crew of three to five and an intended endurance of 9–18 hours. It was first flown in February 1917 with Clifford Prodger at the controls
Never made it into service.......
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