Gnr Murray - In memory of my dear old grandad, who served with "C" Battery, 112th Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 25th Div in WWI (survived). He was lucky and copped for a 'Blighty One' at the Battle of Messines in June 1917 and was invalided back to Blighty away from the horrors of France & Flanders ...

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES IN IRAQ

With Coalition forces and the media now moving freely in Iraq, there have been a number of items in the press about the 'discovery' of Commonwealth war cemeteries from previous conflicts.

Given the poor condition of some of these sites, the understandable assumption ...

The Royal British Legion has welcomed news that a lost graveyard for World War I dead has been found in central Iraq.
The cemetery at Al Amara, built for those on the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, has been discovered by the banks of the Tigris river.

It was found by the Royal Irish Regiment ...

The Gurkhas keep being mentioned in this thread, below is a Brief History of The Brigade of Gurkhas.

Following a number of boundary disputes and repeated raids by the Nepalese into Bengal and Bahir, the Honourable East India Company declared war on Nepal in 1814. During the war a deep feeling of ...

Good on the USMC - Semper Fidelis (Ever Faithfull).

I'm grateful for what the U.S. Marines are doing - A relative was killed at the 'Siege of Kut' in 1916, he was serving with the 6th Bn South Lancs Rgt. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Basrah Memorial.

KUT, Iraq - For a day, U.S ...

IT has now come, I knew it would, and at 11am today I got it. That disgusting stench of the English has now seeped up here. May God have mercy on our souls. :fist:

Rabby,

You really love us Sassenachs - come on, admit it!

I'm getting the fragrant smell of 'Red Roses' wafting up from across the ...

British Dance Bands of 30's 'n' 40's + British Singers of that era.

George Formby, Inkspots, Mills Brothers, Dick Haymes (Better than Crosby (don't rate him)) Ella, Peggy Lee, Sinatra, Dino, Como , Vaughan Monroe... Far too many to mention.

Wear your Red Roses with pride tomorrow.

"Cry God! for Harry, England and St George"

Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Green & Peter Hart
ISBN 0-333-62952-3

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!

'Nuff said!

John Harrison

Anodrog wrote:I have just completed the erection of a flagpole in my garden
The flags have been ordered( St George/White Ensign) and woe-be-tide
Any Bast**d who tells me to take em down

Good on ya Anodog.