Tony B

Intrestilgnly, the black high boots the guys are wearing, are known as Butcher's Boots. These are short boots, with matching leather gaiters.

I've used it with god results, in Land Rover and Dodge.

She'll learn!

And when you grow up son..... They may be at Witham's at that time.

See Sharky's thread help with thsi picture. That will give you an idea.

The power of the Forum! More brains the better. :-D The books are filled with the BIG PICTURE. The soldier's view of earth shattering events may well be through a hole in hedge. Panzer Lehr stated a counter attack on the 9th June going basically North. The histories say they were stopped at Hill 103 then retreated to Tilly. So Dfeilder's Grandfarther must have been one of those who held the best the German Army had !

Ahh Mon V! And the season just starting! Wash , no need to peel. Boil till just going soft , then a bit of butter and salt, with fresh crab if your lucky! :yay:

Try the RLC museum, or this lot http://10thessex.weebly.com/ Problem with the 10th, you'll end up with a lot of hitch hickers! Mostly though the dress was kakhi boiler suits with leather belts. NOTE: Drivers in the British Army were allowed RUBBER soled boots, no studs. RASC uniforms wa the same as cavalary at the time, due to them having a lot of horse drawn .

Where do you park it? Anywhere I want.:-D

Welcome your place in the bar is being cleared as we speack.

The nose weight is the weight the trailer puts onto the towing vehicle via the hitch/hook. Much more important than most people think! To much and the front of the tow vehicle lifts, to little and the trailer can snake like a B******D!

Where is he buried? Is it in Jersaleum Farm? That is the smallest cemetery in Normandy. Near Hill 103 at Chouain. The CWWG went after the war intending to re-inter the casualties at Bayeux. The local population kicked off. The men had to come to the villiage. They had given their lives for the freedom of the villiage, they had been buried by the villiage, they belonged to the villiage and Honour and duty meant the villiage would care for them! The villiagers got their way! Stephan who is the curator of the musuem at Tilley is dedicated to the stories of the individuals who took part in the conflict. I would be honoured to pass him details. Due to unxpected circumstances, as you'll know, I am not 100% sure I'll get to Tilly but if I do I'll be honoured to lay a wreath or get photos for you. I have finally amange dto track it down, though as usuual, there was a new survey done post war, so the location may have moved. The area appears to be a road turning just East of Les Hauts Vents, though the contour line strtches round as far as Chat D'Eau. If you look at the Gaumont News clip the hill from which the film starts comes down from Jersualem Farm and the 103 Contour line.

ME WANT me WANT!!! And they pay you for that? .....

Put sixpence in the meter then! :-D

Did you know the ingredeients for SPAM (SPiced HAm) are kept in locked rooms marked TOXIC? I kid you not! :-X

Corned dog hash!! Food of the Gods! Just a splash of wosctere sauce, and the right spuds jsut boiled soft.

Welcome along.

There was a plan Ramiekin A for an offensive landing on the Islands. It was considered even at the time as an absoletly last resort. The Commandant Huffmier did intend to hold out after the armistice. When HMS Bulldog approached Guernersey on May 8th 1945 Huffmier sent out a junior officer to 'negotiate terms'. The reply was no terms, complete surrender. The Britsh commander Brigader Snow was warned that as the surender terms di come in till midnight the ships may be fired on. His retort was that if that happned Huffmier would hang. The British ships did then withdrw till midnight plus one. Another bizzare twist to the story, and back on theme! The Panzer regiment in the Channel Islands were the only ones never to see action.

That figures!! Royal Engineer Signal Service pre dated the RLC. The picture then goes before 1920, when RLC came into being.

The figure most quoted is that 10% of the Atlantic Wall defences were concentrated in the Channel Islands. 35,000 men just sitting there. Can you imagine if they had been available for D Day? :noyay:

Does that mean it runs on Sherry?

Most of the guns seem to have been nicked from other people, especially the Russians. The Mirus guns were ex St Petersburg battleship Naval guns. A lot of the 105 and 122 guns were French. One I remember is dated 1895! The recent Time Team excavation at Les Giellettes uncovered six 88 bases, dosen't mean they were all installed! I have always been told there were FOUR 88mm Flax guns up there. A lot of emplacments seen today were 'Tempoary' open pits. The intention was to cover all the guns.

The 1920's were the end of the Cavalrey or 'Donkey Wallopers'. The RCS started to use vehicles and motrcycles for dispatch riders. At the time it was still really the Royal Navy who had developed usable wirless communication, including supporting Marconi. Even during the Great War most signal equipment was wired, telephone or Fuller phone, so physical movment of paper was essential (As an aside, the German Army called rapid oral orders by staff officers on the spot as 'Saddle Orders') By the 1920's motorised mobile wireles was starting to develop. If your relative had been a regimental signaller, he would have worn his regimental badge. The RCL have a more startigic mission, providing signals for battalion and above. The Modern Pentahlon is based on the skills a military dispatch rider would have needed to suced. The ability to take a horse cross country (Still beter than any vehicle) Pistol shooting and fencing to defenc himself, running cros country and swiming should he loose the horse.

Can you get a better picture of the cap badge? If he was RCS then he must either have been transfered from a previous arm or just joined. He would have been in at the end of the donkey era. The man at the bottom is wearing a snake belt, so must be prior to the others.

Was the regiment Yeomanary? The horse is hunter clipped which wasn't ususual for Army who normally clipped all out. Also the Bandolier is Leather. This began to be replaced in regular service during the early 1900's. Can you post a bigger picture? The Royal Corp of signals didn't exist till 1920. Before that it was first 'The Telegraph Troop' then The Royal Engineer Signal Service'.