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That coin is awesome!  I have bumped into a few brothers here at the PRT but I wonder how many of us thee are here.  I don't get a chance to get to KAF enough to attend lodge but I would certainly like to try.  PM me with meeting times please.

You guys keep talking like that and he'll be impossible to work with over here. ;D

To comment on the title of this thread... I was an ordinary member for a few years but here in Windsor, Ontario I was never really made to feel welcome in Legion branches.  I was "only a peacekeeping vet".  I saw associates treated better than serving members of the military so why would any of...

Here's a good place to start.  http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhr-ddhr/eng/app_home_e.asp

I agree but our family is so spread out across Canada.  My parents and their generation were close in the 30s and 40s but after the war they seemed to move on and ties were broken.  I know my first cousins but very little from any others.  Now that my Mom has passed on, there is no living link...

I know that tis threat is old but ... it's a good thing that people can sell medals because it gave me the chance to buy my uncles medals from an auction house.  I'm trying to get a photo and the medals of all my reletives who served.  Most are WW1 and WW2 vets but are all gone now. 

Haven't seen him in a while.  He did ok, god on him.

While the Korea War medal is of British/Commonwealth design, it is unique in that it has the word "Canada" on the reverse bottom of the medal.  I think we need someone to take a look at the medals in Canada and come up something a little more consistant with our history. 

Canada hasn't really been consistant with the medals.  Take the rule that you only get one medal per tour/duty/war yet the WW2 and Korea vets have more for the same war.  I know, I know, they are war vets but what do you think is going on in Afghanistan.  The point being that the WW2 guys get a...

Ah, those were the days. I remember the medic Phil Beach (no idea where he's at),  WO Skelding (out now living in St John Nfld), Ken Willett (he's out now), Frank Demaine (saw him in Toronto in the spring, he's still in), Dan Hummel (out now). Looking forward to seeing those pics from Vern.

Boy, this thread got awful quiet.  ;D

I figured that it was you.  How many ex sea cadets from Agamemnon were on the first tour in Namibia. I have a group photo of the advance party in the photo album at home.  I think that I wrote most of the names on the back of it.  Maybe if everyone who has posted on this thread can write a few...

I won't be available to help until March/April time frame, too bad because March 09 is the 20th anniversary of the advance party going over.  Boy, 20 years already.  I guess the first question would be, who would go to a reunion and where would we hold it?  Toronto might be a good place...

Gee, I don't know, OLD935SGT, know anyone who is retired with a little time on his hands?  ::)

Oh no, rumours of a reunion in the air!  Seriously, it would be great to see some of those folks again.  On the range today we were talking and I mentioned Namibia, the person across form me says "Oh, you were there?  I work with Phil Nicoles, he was there too."  Small world.

Great photos!!!  Sure brings back a bunch of memories.  The first pic of us waiting for the plane, I recognize a bunch of people (but at my age, not their names  ::)). I remember the Canada Day celebration.  I work guard duty at the front gate and laughed as we watched the Polish guys stumble...

During our tour a bunch of us joined the parachute club in Windhoek.  There were a lot of ex SADF and SWATF guys there but generally, we were accepted and made to feel welcome.  I can understand their feels toward the UN.  Here we were perceived to be giving the country over to the enemy. Any...

I got to Namibia in the middle of March, 1989.  We just walked off the airplane and were we met by a tall blonde female SAP officer who smiled at us and directed us to the military terminal at Strijom (SP?) Airport.  We seemed to get along with with the SADF and SAP guys. I remember the 1st of...

I'd go back tomorrow (if I wasn't in Pet getting ready to go somewhere else  ;D)

I'm looking for a photo of Major Fredrick Tilson VC with all medals on.  He was also a Knight of the Order of St John and I'd like to put his picture up in our Headquarters and Training Facility here in Windsor.  If anybody can help out, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks