Thanks for your interesting post ..!
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Thanks for your interesting post ..!
I’m wondering if your dad and his unit were issued the new No.4 rifles that were being mass produced by this time
Hi x westie. I always had the impression that guns were issued in England but would remain at camp as many Canadians were billeted in English homes. Thus strong bonds were made, especially with the young soldiers. Unfortunately he couldn't remember if they were Long Branch or not. My Dad as corporal of his small 6 or 7 man squad always carried a Sten. The biggest man carried the Bren. All others No.4s. There is a photo of Dad with his company in combat on top of a dyke in Holland Mar/44 in a Time Life book. He identified himself as he was carrying a rifle and a sten at that time as he had to remove it from a dead soldier in his squad. The Sten was also used to eliminate certain types of german soldiers that would surrender (SS and Paras) as unwritten policy dictated. I asked Dad where the officer was in this line of Canadians in combat. He said at the rear always. Why I asked? He said it was the officers job to shoot anyone who turned and ran. John
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Chief Skipper A E Berry DSC commander of British Flotilla, Dover Patrol.
Lost many of the ships under his command with heavy casualties on 15 February 1918.
Admiral Reginald Bacon, Commander of Dover Patrol until he was replaced later in the war, before the controversial Zeebrugge Raid.
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Chief Skipper A E Berry DSC commander of British Flotilla, Dover Patrol.
Lost many of the ships under his command with heavy casualties on 15 February 1918.
Admiral Reginald Bacon, Commander of Dover Patrol until he was replaced later in the war, before the controversial Zeebrugge Raid.
Thanks for that, Tony. I had no idea this had happened, or that the RN operated trawlers or drifters in a naval capacity. That sent me down quite the rabbit hole.
It's a damn poor day when you don't learn anything new.
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Bacon sounded like quite an outstanding officer. Therefore an outsider in the wardroom.
Oh.
The Bayer's Lake 'mystery walls.'
Everybody seems to want them to be either a crofter's cabin or a livestock enclosure. Much credibility has been given to 'a lichenologist' who claimed the characteristics of the lichen growth on the cut stones dates the structure at around the last decade of the Eighteenth Century. There is a problem. Nobody seems to have a copy of this individual's report readily accessible.
In addition, the original owner of this plot of land abandoned Nova Scotia to open a butcher shop in Philadelphia. None of the land in the Bayer's Lake area is remotely fit for even subsistence farming. It has been described as very like the ideal of the perfect moose pasture.
Where would livestock be grazing in this scrubby land with next to no topsoil or quality vegetation for grazing?
It is a fact that the 63rd Regiment of The Halifax Rifles was called up on August 6th, 1914 for local protective duty. For some strange reason nobody is interested in researching the possible WWI connection to this complex.
I would love to read up on the activities of the 63rd Regiment, Halifax Rifles during WWI. This info does not seem to be online, although I swear I was on a website which had some uploaded text files on that subject, it does not seem to exist today.
I read there was WWI military activity in the Long Lake area.
Incidentally, I also heard there was WWI military activity in the Rocky Lake area. I believe this was mainly a military camp for personnel awaiting their sea voyages to Britain and the front.
Here is what botanists are dealing with when estimating the age of lichen growing on rocks.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topic...obtained,by historical records or radiocarbon).
That one news article referred to the technician as a lichenologist rather than a botanist seems a bit odd to me. It sounds like someone placed a premium on honourifics.
Here is a typical article about the structure.
You notice no elevated levels of phosphorus were found in the soil survey, yet the archaeologist still thinks this was a livestock enclosure. Another thing: he said he found no records indicating the government ordered the building of the structure, yet he says something to indicate he was looking at records from colonial times. Are these folks not looking in the right archives?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4853424
quote of the researcher - archaeologist:
To speak of rabbit holes, I happened on this website detailing the history of British Army fortifications in Northern Ireland in the 1970's through the early 21st century.
Pics of British Army sangars from WWI are extremely rare it seems.
https://frontlineulster.co.uk/fortifications-of-operation-banner/
Pic of sangars from the Eritrean - Ethiopian War.
Sangars come in an immense variety.
from:
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1023621
There are fortifications in the Sambro area which are just there and rotting away in the harsh near shore climate. I last visited them long ago. WWI vintage? Does anyone know?
The one fortification I visited lies (or was located?) as I said in the Sambro area. It sure was a forlorn and secretive location. The site was clearly picked by a professional.
Yes, you’re correct. Should have noticed the logo but they are very similar vehicles.
You are right but either one beat the heck out of sticking the family in an open side car with mom or the eldest riding pillion during a heavy rainI would not want to be on a busy highway in either.
… Father (and our family) was stationed in Germany in the mid ‘50’s and these little ‘cars’ were fairly popular … . In those days lots of folks just had bicycles … Canadian military personnel typically bought a used car from a departing family … we had an Opel Rekord iirc. (With an ‘AA’ badge on the front grill). I dont remember seeing these little cars on the autobahn …. I certainly remember the police in their small white Porsche cabriolets and the full length over coats they wore.
