Remembrance via Milsurps...

[cyclone]

At The Toronto Star they are soliciting pictures of and stories about wartime/peacetime artifacts for a Remembrance Day story. To quote, they are looking for "objects that hold special meaning for a veteran or his or her loved ones".....

I think perhaps a few stories about pieces of shootable milsurp ought to be contributed to the living@thestar.ca address ?....

Thoughts are welcome.....

 

[mg4201]

I have a knife my grandfather took from a dead german soldier. Probably not what they are after aye?

 

[cyclone]

I have a knife my grandfather took from a dead german soldier. Probably not what they are after aye?

I think it'd make for a fine story....

 

[Nabs]

What about battle damaged milsurps that were brought back by Canadian soldiers from WW1 ?

Hmm, knowing the Toronto Star, they might put a blurb in at the end to melt them down...

 

[TheTooner]

There are Browning HiPowers made in Toronto during WWII for Canadian and allied forces, and some of them are still in service with Canadian forces, in Afghanistan. That would make a nice then and now sequence of pictures.

 

[cyclone]

There are Browning HiPowers made in Toronto during WWII for Canadian and allied forces, and some of them are still in service with Canadian forces, in Afghanistan. That would make a nice then and now sequence of pictures.

As well as a highly topical one !....

 

[ChefBoyOhBoy]

I have a few really nice trench art vases made from artillery shells. Maybe I'll send a few photos in.

 

[John Sukey]

There are Browning HiPowers made in Toronto during WWII for Canadian and allied forces, and some of them are still in service with Canadian forces, in Afghanistan. That would make a nice then and now sequence of pictures.

Have heard that Canada still has lots of "unissued" Hi-Powers and since you folks have adopted a new sidearm, there was talk of sending those NEW IN THE BOX PISTOLS to the SMELTER!

 

[cyclone]

Have heard that Canada still has lots of "unissued" Hi-Powers and since you folks have adopted a new sidearm, there was talk of sending those NEW IN THE BOX PISTOLS to the SMELTER!

Luckily there was little follow-through on that initiative....

 

[Bazzoka_Joe]

I have a knife my grandfather took from a dead german soldier. Probably not what they are after aye?

mine brought back a Hitlerjugend knife , i have no idea how he got it, he die before telling me ...