Here is the list of the 50! Great Escape Murdered Escapees There were actually 5 Aussies and I always thought there was only 3. These are the...
My lad Hake has his death listed on CWGC as the 31st of March yet the AWM has his death as the 25th and cremation as the 30th Albert Horace Hake...
Thanks for that info Annie. I omitted to look at the date of the RAAF Poznan burials and see that there are three for the 31/3/1944. I will have to...
28 September 1939 The first Australian to be killed in action was probably Wing Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron, who was serving with Britain's Royal...
William Howard Stovall senior and junior!
Probably the first Australian casualties after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 were serving members of the Royal Australian Air Force...
I posted this on another site a couple of days ago - embarassing! Two great minds............. First RAN craft and first US Ship sunk in WW2...
Fantastic Info Annie. Thank you. Geoff
Found this on the Dambusters site. This seems to be the five aircaft but from a different cause.
My "deaths only" 1939-1945 amount to 10,835 with another 200 that were killed in the RAF and registered as UK deaths on the CWGC database. They...
For instance, there were 147 Aussie lads killed in Canada. Only a handful were from action and another small percentage crashed on return from an...
Percival Landon Bazeley was the reason Penicillin was available to New Guinea troops etc by Christmas 1943, The CSIRO through Bazeley (A...
It still amazes me what danger these lads placed themselves in.
They are making it look good for the G20. They do not want to look too affluent!
Tarzan and Jane joke Tarzan flies through the trees to his tree top house and says to Jane - What is for dinner Jane? Jane replies, Some Birds and...
Love the last one Nana - made me smile.
I sent the one about the Holocaust to Kyt for confirmation when I received it as I could not believe it to be true. Once proved to be a lot of Tosh...
Now let's not get into minerals!
Churchill fought cat and dog not to lose any of the Australian divisions so I will have to go for him.
Great shots Kyt. Must have been a proud day for the lads that returned. For many it would have also been a heavy burden to carry through the years.
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