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Ladies and Gentlemen, Since I posted the last message, I have received a email from a old friend, who still has a certain degree of input into the system. From he (totally unconfirmed of course) the actual descent, and the subsequent consolidation was text book, how actual training exercise...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Over the years on this discussion group, people have raved about airborne operations, how they are super, how they are obsolete. This operation by the infantry battalion group from the 173rd AIrborne Brigade is a prime example of the strategic reinforcement of the...

Thankyou for that. WIth the two L5 batteries concentrated at Gagetown, this makes sense in regard to school level training. Also the reduction in the AMF battery to four guns would allow a sensible depot level maintenance, by having two guns in reserve. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Thanks, It does not seem logical that there were only 12 L5‘s - equipping two batteries. What about the armourer in training, did they have to go to the batteries to learn about depot level maintenance, whilst the school would have had to have at least one gun for the officer courses to train...

Thanks for that Mr Monkhouse. When the L5 were bought for the Airborne Battery, it was established for eight guns. Since 12 guns were bought this proportionately links with a training pool and a maintenance pool of weapons - one or two guns in the School, one with the RCEME Centre, one or two...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I must apologise for the late response to this! The gentleman using the nom du plume of Harry wrote " Back in 89-90 I did some research on the CFE Cent‘s that never made it back to Canada, except one or two that became pedestal mounts." and "I had the opportunity to...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I must apologise for not placing a response to my own question so long ago, but, my time is finite and other demands are made upon it. When Canada, as one of the original signatories to the Allied Mobile Force Agreement in 1961, some major thinking had to occur at NDHQ...

From The Times (of London) 11 Nov 2002 November 11, 2002 Oldest holders and history of VC From Mr Russell Vallance Sir, In the Birthdays section of the Register (November 5) you noted the 88th birthday of Richard Annand, VC, and said that he was the now the oldest surviving holder of the...

No not navy ARMY!!! I always say that the more that I know, the more that I do not know. I actually came to Australia as a soldier in the Australian Regular Army, not a ten pound tourist. What is now the Australian Army Reserve (previously the Citizens Military Forces) has always been a very...

Actually "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" is the regimental march of the : Australian Army Aviation Corps, and the British Army‘s Army Air Corps (and until it‘s disbandment the New Zealand Army AIr Corps). Due in both cases to their armies forming the Australian Flying Corps and...

I persume by this you mean the music played on a ceremonial march past (not a song!). WHilst there are a number of set pieces of music played on RAAF ceremonial parades, a march past in line (which I have never seen carried out at any RAAF Base) is according to the Manual of Drill and...

Mr O‘Leary, the feeding of the troops by those placed over them (in the British Commonwealth context) actually goes back over a thousand years. It was the norm in pre-Norman Invasion of England (1066) that the chieftan of the tribal group (clan etc) on the great feast day of the year would...

My apologies, brain not working to well in the 37 degree C plus heat. The Canadian Army purchased 374 Mk III Cents in 1952-53, subsequently converted to Mk 5‘s. In the late 1960‘s, 3 regiments in Canada were equipped with Cents, as was the one in 4CMBG in BAOR. The British Army ordnance...

The 48 gun turrets of the Cents from 4CMBG were transferred by the Federal German Government (the Cents were part traded in for the Leopard C1 deal to Krauss Maffei) as part of a complex barter deal. The 1988 edition of WIENER Friedrich. Die Armeen der Neutralen und Blockfreien Staaten Europas...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Actually the Canadian Centurions still exist: Many of the gun turrets complete with gun and MG were supplied to the Austrian Army, these statically emplaced in various alpine passes facing east. A number still remain. While at least 41 of the vehicle hulls ended up in...

Secret medals for unsung heroes of the SAS and SBS By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 29/10/2002) The Telegraph Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS) troops hailed for their bravery in operations against al-Qa‘eda and Taliban fighters during the war in...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Whilst at dinner tonight we were talking about how the NATO Allied Mobile Force (Land) has been recently been disbanded. The conversation veered upon the 1960‘s and how only the British, German and Italian armies actually provided their infantry battalions with artillery...

Andrew, having just looked at the syntax in your last message (plus the appalling spelling) it would appear that you are either intellectually impaired or are a child of 11 or 12 years. In either case you should not be corresponding on such matters as these as they are totally beyond your...

"So my big question is, do any of you like it" No one in their right mind likes military parachuting, it is a different to sports parachuting as a nun is to a prostitute. Military parachuting is a means of travelling a long distance with a fair degree of speed, and putting soldiers accurately...

I do not believe it - a Canadian asking what is a cold stream!!!!!!!! Coldstream is a village and burgh in Scotland on the English border, the river Tweed, here in 1659 Monk‘s Regiment of Foot acquired the name. Yours, Jock in SYdney who has a soft spot for Coldstreamers - or ‘sheep sh_ggers‘...