Search results

Mr Walford, Go to: http://www.chapter-one.com/vc/default.asp The Victoria Cross Reference. If you cannot find the relevent information on the site, send them a message. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Ladies and Gentlemen, The programme is based very closely on the tour of 1st Battalion, The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment in Bosnia in 1992-93. The events shown are an amalgam of those which happened to various sub-units of the Cheshires, and all placed on one platoon with its four Warrior Infantry...

Ladies and Gentlemen, There was further connection with Canada, the Princess was the Colonel in Chief of the Bermuda Regiment. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was appointed Colonel in Chief of the Women‘s Royal Australian Army Corps on 1 June 1953 (QEII Coronation Day), until all ranks Corps were transferred into the various corps of the Australian Army, 6 December 1984. Whilst the WRAAC has been effectively...

Ladies and Gentlemen, You think Canada is bad, have a look at South Africa, the following are taken from African Notes of 6 February 2002 Editorial: The appointment of even more generals and admirals unwelcome news The announcement this week of a whole new slew of general and flags officers...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I deliberately have not said anything on this subject until it appear that everyone had said their fill. Bowden‘s book "Blackhawk Down" is described as being by the only person who pieced together the whole incident." Unfortunatly that is not so, there is much that has...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Two articles from the BBC world service. They have had surplus details removed. Wednesday, 23 January, 2002, 13:11 GMT Somalis cheer Black Hawk Down By the BBC‘s Hassan Barise in Mogadishu Thousands of Somalis have flocked to cinemas in Mogadishu for the opening night...

A realistic view of this "MOVIE" Black Hawk Down - good box office but bad history By Scott Peterson (Filed: 21/01/2002) The Daily Telegraph of London BRED on Rambo movies and looking the sinister part, American Delta Force commandos making their debut in Somalia in August 1993 launched a...

Ladies and Gentlemen, This abridged article from the London, Sunday Times, 20 Jan 2002, is of interest to this discussion. Yours, Jock in SYdney Victors‘ justice helps revive the beaten monster By John Simpson YOU can sense the growing unease. From the International Red Cross to the...

Just thought I would give an update. The majority of the fires in the state of New SOuth Wales are now out, the only ones remaining are those in totally inacessable country which are going to be left to totally burn the areas out. Altogether some 2.5million hectares of forest, National Parks...

http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/printer/printer.asp?f=/stories/20020112/1109785.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/020112/6/gz62.html Yours, Jock in Sydney

THE WASHINGTON POST http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A57403-2001Dec17 A couple of paragraphs from the article. WE DON‘T PEACEKEEP[ Why? Because the American military is the world‘s premier fighting force, and ought to husband its resources for just...

Mr Green, Thanks for this. I personally do not think that the increase of RF personnel with a reserve unit, assists in anyway. As you said there is a shortage of RF personnel anyway, so what do you get to Reserve units, the sick - lame and lazy, or high quality personnel. Personal experience...

Halifax Herald 7 Jan 2002 Proper hierarchy Dear Editor: I take serious issue with Brian A. Blaney‘s letter Dec. 26 lamenting the general staff of the Canadian Forces for their supposed inability to stand up to their political masters. In Mr. Blaney‘s opinion, it is a direct result of the...

Mr Vickers, ladies and Gentlemen, As Mr Bobbitt its was 1st Canadian Radar Battery. this was an ad hoc unit of the Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) raised in France on 22 Sep 1944 from personnel mainly drawn from the directional radar sections of the Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiments of the RCA. The...

Thanks for this, Things have been pretty bad over the past three weeks and look like getting worse. As of this Saturday well over one million hectares have been burn out around the Sydney area. In the incrediably rough terrain that spreads from the Blue Mountains National park across the Colo...

Mr Green, Ladies and Gentlemen, As I said the little dit I did on the : Airfield Defence Wing (AFDW) of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Role: To provide protection and security of RAAF installations, assets, facilities and personnel. One of its contingency tasks is one of proving...

Mr Green, Ladies and Gentlemen, I must apologise for not responding to this post sooner, but, things have been somewhat hectic over the past three weeks. To improve, enhance reserve training, well far better minds than mine have tried here in Australia, the UK, NZ and of course Canada. In...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Must apologise for not responding to this sooner, but, things have been somewhat hectic over the past three weeks. Mr Hollman wrote on 12 Dec 2001 "A Cpl. in my pl. joined the British Army and did 3 months of training before returning to Canada. The type of people...

"Rupert" From the childrens story, Rupert the Bear, the unworldly, simple, ungaintly little bear, who could never dress himself properly, good god that describes a Second Lieutenant! Back in the 1960‘s I heard it in the Canadian Guards and the Queens Own Rifles "Brick" - meaning a 4-man...