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Nourishing Obscurity has a good piece. ANZAC day Gallipoli - april 25th, 1915
Friday 25 April 2008
ANZAC Day......
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Had the good fortune to be at the Fernleaf Centre in Singers in '95 for ANZAC Day. Great party!!
I hail from BURY, LANCASHIRE, Regimental Town of the Lancs Fusiliers,(VCs before breakfast).
Bwaaaa...
Redgum are a defunct band of "comrades"....Mao was their hero back then.
They also never saw anyone they wouldn't pre-emptively surrender to.
Leftist handwringers.
Anon: If you have a better vid bung it over. Tried a quick look but short of time.
Try the TV series on Monash.
Jesus Theo, had a look at Nourishing Obscurity...you get judged by the company you keep, what a load of leftist shit.
Anzac Day has always had massive public support and participation, no-one in Aust. has ever heard of the touchy feely play for the angst ridden left Nour Obs spends time quivering over...
What's going on over there?
Have to laugh - Anon's come over here as well. I'm wondering how a patriotic conservative who supports the troops and was one of them and whose blog hits leftists every chance it can get - I'm wondering how that blogger who the Maoists hate and get apoplectic over - how does Anonymous turn him into a Maoist sympathiser?
Need a bit of logic here, Anonymous and maybe some patriotism too.
Errr...reasoning a bit garbled there sema.
Is that an "English as a second language" prob?
Try again and concentrate on the cogent concept.
Anon - I asked that question at my place - do you know English at all? Is it your 2nd or 3rd language. Try the how English are you test or the how Aussie and see how ya go me old matie. :)
The statements made at Nourishing by James in his figures are correct, I done research myself, go check this site , its an official Australian government site, are you all going to dispute that?
The landing scheme was a simple one, in outline at least. The 3rd Brigade's 4000 men would land as a covering force to secure a beachhead for two Australasian divisions made up of six brigades. Those 4000 would go in two waves. The first, consisting of 1500 men, were to start from three battleships – Queen, Prince of Wales and London – then be distributed between twelve tows, each made up of a steamboat, a cutter (30 men), a lifeboat (28 men) and either a launch (98 men) or a pinnace (60 men). The remaining 2500, the second wave, were to land from seven destroyers shortly afterwards. Those destroyers would wait near the island of Imbros and join the battleships, one and a half miles (about 2 km) from the mainland, at 4.15 am. The first wave was scheduled to land a few minutes earlier, and the destroyers would then sail in, full speed ahead, adding a number of lifeboats borrowed from transport vessels to the tows that had been used by the first wave. Once the whole 3rd Brigade was ashore, the rest of the 1st Division would arrive on transports, grouped in fours and coming in at regular intervals.
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/1landing/bgrnd.html
Getting back to the point. Read this page about a Colorado radio show which has taken some U.S. vets to Australia for ANZAC Day.
http://www.850koa.com/pages/Tubbs_In_Australia.html
From Tubbs report downunder:
The day started with a sunrise memorial service at the Shrine near downtown Melbourne. There, an eternal flame much like President Kennedy's at Arlington, burns consistently. It was moving and attended by at least 25,000 people.
Yeah, I used to take a class of kids to that years ago and they loved it.
Been away...how do you put up with this sub literate rubbish...
"Try the how English are you test or the how Aussie and see how ya go me old matie. :)"
Is it some sort of pommie PC where the fuckwit writing it is never laughed at?
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