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Perhaps the goat's handler should not have been of the same rank (L/Cpl) as the goat.  There may have been some confusion as to who was senior. Certainly the demotion of the goat makes the matter clear. Perhaps the mess hall laying in a supply of mint jelly might act as a deterent.

Coates was in Tiffany's.  Those who were there would know it.  (It's still there...)

I didn't group Kim Campbell with the Liberal party, I merely pointed out that as a red tory, she was more a liberal that a conservative.  It is interesting to note that the liberal government made her the Canadian Consul in California after her huge electoral loss.  That's the election she and...

From where I am sitting, out west and up north (and I have letters from all of the recent ones), the liberal Ministers of National Defence and Ms. Campbell (who as a Red Tory was really a liberal) for the past several decades have been empty suits.  If I have to choose a liberal, I'd probably go...

Ja, Larry waffenrock is rechts.  Mein deutsch ist nicht sehr gut. And, it is one of Rommel's field tunics, not a dress one. Thanks for the correction!  My German wife gave me a bit of "flak" over the mistake.  :)

Some educated guesses; worthy of the answer. The Commander of the German Battlecruisers at Jutland was Admiral Franz von Hipper (Admiral Reinhard Scheer was C-in-C), and the architect of the German Navy before WW I was, as correctly answered by mcchartman, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Geo's nod...

It is a bit weird, but not that scary.  I'm just a little surprised that a) Bob Marley appears to have enjoyed some of the same reading material as me, and that b) Marley could read in German.    ;D Here are two easy questions:  Who commanded the German battlecruisers at Jutland, and who is...

I didn't even realize that Moltke wrote for Marely...

Helmuth Von Moltke is correct, good work Geo.

BernDawg and mcchartman have provided good information regarding the frizzen.  It is indeed that part of a flintlock that is struck to produce a spark.  It also covers the priming powder in the flash pan until the flint strikes the frizzen to spark and thus ignite the priming powder. Who said...

Of course Tom!  ;D

mcchartman is correct, the Fairsea was the vessel that delivered those elements of the 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade. What is a frizzen?

Geo, that's a great answer from the same reference that I am using, but what ship did they arrive on?

it says literally "4th Canadian Separate Brigade" Yes, that's true, but I would translate "separate" (in that context) as independent.

Jawohl, Oberst-general Heinz Guderian's waffen frock is quite appropriately on display in the German Armour Museum, next to Rommel's waffen frock.  Such history is contained in those walls. What was the name of the transport vessel that delivered the first combat elements of 27 Canadian...

Purchase Russian equipment?  Makes me wonder if us trigger happy 'mericans might mistake Canadians for the bad guys. That's certainly happened before, regardless of equipment employed.  It is certainly a valid point -years of IFF and vehicle recognition training wouldn't support buying that stuff.

No, it's not Goering.  A further clue might be the museum itself!

Damn! That was a fast response Anti-Royal and correct it is - Rommel's death mask (and one of his Afrika Corps Waffen frocks) is in the Deutches Panzer Museum of Munster. What other German notable has a trade specific (clue) jacket on display in that museum?

Well I'm far from being a kid, but I wear camo for hunting.  US and Canadian whites for goat hunting, Old West German Pine tree whites  for winter deer and elk, and a nifty old Denison smock in the fall.  Sometimes my wife throws on one of my old workdress jackets (insignia removed) because she...