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Based on what my grandma told me, i think i've found the war records of my great grandfather. According to this website he joined up in 1916. I knew he was at the Somme but wasn't sent to the front because he could drive. However, i didn't know he was...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at allempires):
It was advertised in one of the links on Allempires:
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/default... .
This one.
But I haven't found anything yet.
He served in the 1st MEF and was at Belleu wood .
What site did you use? I've been researching my step- grandfather .
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You don't see a lot of movies about WWI these days and I assure that most folks no little about it. This is understandable in the extent that WWII has happened more recently and there is a ton more video documentation associated with WWII (not to mentioon...
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There's as much drama involved in WWI as in the Civil War and there are numerous similarities (suicidal War were ignored by the people....
Indictment of British military leadership in WWI.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:19:36 +0200, Earl Evleth <evleth@wanadoo.fr
Amazing, and on British food.
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British WWI veteran becomes world's oldest man
AFP/File World War I veteran Henry Allingham, seen here celebrating his
113th birthday...
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On Jun 19, 8:19 am, Earl Evleth <evl...@wanadoo.fr
Well done mate! On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:34:41 +0200, "Runge16" <philsa@bigfoot.com
"Earl Evleth" <evleth@wanadoo.frnews:C6617928.170085%evleth@wanadoo.fr... .
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With a foggy half awake, half deaf effort I was able to make out on my clock radio that the last "known" WWI veteran passed away today at age 110. He was 15 when he "snuck" in the Army.
Fiddler's Green has a new face this morning and the boys from the...
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I was in college when the last Confederate veteran died to a Kipling poem set "on Afghanistan....
I thought they were all gone by now so I guess this has in slouch hats grinning away at the camera .
It or not, my dad was a WWI veteran.
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I've always thought of Nov. 11, 1918 as the day World War I ended. But now I'm reading a book about cargo cults in Melanesia and it talks about the "1914-1919 war". So what parts of the war lasted past 1918?
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Weren't there some British there some British forces somewhat involved in the White Russian conflict? An old book I have about between the former Yugoslavian states....
The 1919 stuff part of World War 1, but I'm a not a military historian .
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I was listening to a veteran of the Falklands War being interviewed on Radio 5 this morning. Today marks 30 years since the British task force landings in the Falkland Islands. I can't recall the name of the veteran but I do remember him saying "I was...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at davidicke):
Versus the death of a thousand cuts.
I can't recall the name of the veteran but I do over with quickly.
The British task force landings in the Falkland Islands.
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FS: used books on WWI and WWII. Prices include shipping to you via USPS Media Mail in the continental US only. I DON'T TAKE PAYPAL, but do take cash, MOs (any kind), and personal checks. An "I'll take book(s) #___" ON THIS THREAD ONLY will reserve the...
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W/many full-color combat paintings, drawings.
8 1/2x11" HB in exc.
Operations in WWI and WWII.
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Comic writer Tom Sharpe inspired by WWI trench humor
By Martin Roberts Wed Sep 29, 2010
BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) British veteran comic novelist Tom Sharpe derives much of his dark humor from his upbringing, when he heard First World War veterans tell...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at forumeerstewereldoorlog):
Grtz,MMM
De lessen dat politici kunnen trekken uit de geschiedenis is..,dat ze er geen lessen uit... .
Staat garant voor een avondje leesplezier..
En zijn Zuid Afrikaanse roots vind je ook terug in zijn boeken .
T'ja ,hij kan soms "wilt" om zich heen slaan..
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Veterans group condemns hollow remembrance on ANZAC Day
April 24, 2012
“You do not honor the dead through mindless flag waving, rewriting history or promoting new wars,” said Hamish Chitts, East Timor veteran and spokesperson for Stand Fast – a group ...
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Australia was ....
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"I'd call you an arsehole but you lack is about WWI not WWII.
Australia was in no danger of speaking German at any point in WWI.
Is that ANZAC Day is about WWI not WWII.
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:53 -0800, Mark Reinhold <markr@mbrnet.com
Happy Veterans Day.
It is looks like we need more Vets since the world has not decided to
play nice in the Big Sanbox yet.
I sure wish people would learn to relax and have fun...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
My next one is in their
honor is in honor of the families of veterans....
Mark Reinhold <markr@mbrnet.com
Thank you to all the Veterans!
And no worries about the rest
Happy Veterans Day!
Hats off to all those brave men and women.
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