27-05-2017, 10:24 AM
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Re: Trenches
Originally Posted by tarantula
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One of my grandfather's was in the trenches during WW1. He never recovered from the experience of being gassed, and died at the young age of 48 during WW2.
28-05-2017, 02:02 PM
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Re: Trenches
I think times are better now-but.....My maternal Grandfather got a `blighty one` so he came back with some stories that would chill a freezer.
And now the but...........He died in 1976 and had seen the threat of thermonuclear weapons,as have most of us. The threat has diminished today but we remember Cuba,And `Protect and Survive
28-05-2017, 03:47 PM
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Re: Trenches
Originally Posted by MickB
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Maybe not gone completely - a young friend of mine who fought in The Falklands in 1982, told me that the "gung ho - up and at 'em lads" spirit still survives. He told me that a certain (posthumously decorated) young officer - killed in a frontal attack on a gun emplacement which got many of his men killed (when an air strike could have been ordered in) was a cause of serious concern to the experienced soldiers in his unit and some were seriously considering "fragging" him before he killed them all.
I'll presume you are....Lt Col 'H' Jones should never have been leading from the front....such a high ranking officer (imho)should have been further back with a clear view of the battle ahead.
Yes, he charged a machinegun post but, was he responsible for deaths in his action? I doubt it, he was taken down without firing a single shot....before the true hero, cpl Dave Abols, fired a LAW and took this post out.
'H' was brave, no doubting that but, was he gung-ho or acting in the spirit of a para?
Maybe his state of mind was compromised by the death of his best pal?
Who know's....but he wasn't responsible for the deaths of his men.
28-05-2017, 03:56 PM
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Boy,we was on the fire step,I said to this boy-you keep sticking you`re ead up and they will get you. This ol boy kept a sticking is ead up and BANG his ead were blown off.My Grandfather said `boy` a lot. Who knows what family lost a boy with his blood and brains all over my Grandfather??
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