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Just heard St John ? Nick

Yup and say's lot's for our history and culture. By the swipe of a pen we lose all sence of history and tradition. Nick. UBIQUE P_.S. I are still a F.E . !!

Ah I'm still waiting for some one to come out with a joke for UBIQUE? :salute: :cdn: Nick

"MedTechs, Supply Techs, MatTechs, Int Ops, Int Os... list goes on..." Are not a CORPS! We Sappers are !! I'm not going into a shit pump parade but there is quite a diff. between our coleclevtive task's

I have heard a new version of Chimo has come out of the School. C ## Hurts In My Orifice. Laughed my old arse off when I was told . ;D Recruite's will alway's come up with some thing  new  :salute:    :cdn: I still remember Mj Crow shouting out CHIMO us rank's shouting out Beanio's ! In...

What I would like to see instead of the Brigade patch is our colours on our left shoulder. Why? We are the Corps Of Canadian Military Engineers, we belong to no one,we are always attached,.never mentioned by Unit when we have performed the impossible just the "Engineers" were there. UBIQUE

My heart sank when I read Flash's obit. But I did not know that he served with the forgotten army in Burma . :salute: :cdn: Nick

Er our tasking has just started,we are baby's in this part of the world. Try reading some history about over 100 yrs ago when Britain and Russia were trying to employ their Imperial power in Afg. There is only one man who came an conquered Afghanistan and that was Alexnader the Great and he did...

We Sappers don't need a " Tab" our badge is our "Tab" . The only other tab's we wear are Diver,E.O.D., Jumper,do we need any more?

Bubbles ( Duncan) is still a live and well and living in the Wac as a Commissioner on the gate for the A.S.U. (west gate in the old day's). Brian is living in the Valley from the last I heard.

I was digging and found some old photo's but alas could not post? Wain Con 77 ,late night movie at about 23:00 we used bed sheet's for the screen,yes folk's 16 mm movies,4 reel's to a movie with a progector for you young'ns These photo's are of the road move back to the Wack. Nick

I will always be a Field Engineer,I dislike the nomenclature "Combat Engineer" ,it make us distructive instead of consctructive and it also removes our sence history ,what is next? The loss of Sapper? Nick

I started reading Harry's letters about a week ago at work the amazing thing is his grand son has coincided the dates of Harry's letter's to what we are living now in 2008 and Harry posted a letter today from Italy Monday 14 Jan 1918. http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ Nick UBIQUE

MCG,all who have come in have gone gotten their ticket punched once or twice with in a year. But there is the other side of our the task. We do post attack damage and uxo Recce.'s for post attack recovery and that is/was the main aim of 47 EOD Flight. Can you see them coming off the flight...

YUp but those road moves!!!!!!!!

Sir ,you miss my point !!! All those who have been posted to 47 (REG FORCE) !!!!!!!!! Got all of thier E.O.D. cources quicker than being with in a Regiment!

Er SIR,re read what I POSTED ! I have served with 47 since 97 ,all got their courses quicker with 47 than with say  staying with in 1CER ,2 CER etc.

Hey  we all get old timers. But thanks for the photo. Now the old City Hall and Gaol is the Presentation House now which contains a art gallery and our local live theater. When the building was the city hall it all so contained the gaol. I used to stand under cover under the balconey at the...

Yup I was there. After the local's finished in the hall Danny Hartford got on stage and gave us a good session with his git box and gob irons. We all ended up in one of the locals house continuing the party. Nick

He and his wife are running a B@B over on the Island.