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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #30 - Jul 12^th, 2024 at 3:56pm First Nations Keeping Place unveiled at RAAF Base Edinburgh during Adelaide NAIDOC week celebrations
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #31 - Jul 19^th, 2024 at 1:49pm 'Last Of The Few' pilot celebrates 105th birthday at UK Embassy
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #32 - Jul 22^nd, 2024 at 8:36pm Satellite imagery reveals extent of destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Gaza
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #33 - Aug 6^th, 2024 at 12:17pm Tom Pritchard, World Word II veteran and Australia's last Rat of Tobruk, dies aged 102
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #34 - Aug 11^th, 2024 at 1:27pm Naval Graves Project finds lost burial sites of Australian and allied sailors Naval Graves Project finds lost burial sites of Australian and allied sailors
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #35 - Aug 14^th, 2024 at 9:28pm Breaker Morant's name will not be added to Adelaide's Boer War memorial, city council rules
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Sir Eoin O Fada Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2804 New England, NSW Gender:	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #36 - Aug 16^th, 2024 at 8:34am Quite right, wouldn’t do to draw attention to one of England’s infamous judicial murders.
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #37 - Aug 16^th, 2024 at 3:43pm 'Sacred ground' in ANZAC Cove under threat as fires rage across Türkiye, PM says
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #38 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 9:17pm Metal detectorist on mission to return WWII dog tags to soldier's family
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #39 - Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 10:49am Edward 'Teddy' Sheean is Australia's most recent Victoria Cross recipient. In 2020, almost 80 years after his death, the 18-year-old Tasmanian seaman was recognised for his efforts to save his crewmates aboard HMAS Armidale.
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Reply #40 - Aug 29^th, 2024 at 4:39pm

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P11050357

Sam Pearse (1897-1919). He enlisted in the AIF before he had turned 18. After brief service on Gallipoli with the 7th Battalion, he went to the Western Front, where he saw a lot of action and was awarded the Military Medal.Once the war ended, Pearse went to North Russia with the British relief force. In his heroic exploit there, he went through barbed-wire defences while under heavy machine-gun fire to attack a blockhouse. He single-handedly killed the occupants with bombs, but while fighting on he was killed.

From local historical society in Archangel North Russia:
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Pearce's grave at Obozerskaya station was lost. So we took it upon ourselves to immortalize the feat of the Soldier who fulfilled his combat and comradely duty to the end: we built this cenotaph next to the Chapel of the Virgin Mary.

He died a hero's death on August 29, 1919. He fulfilled his soldier's duty to the end. The rest is unimportant.

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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16953 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #41 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 7:55pm My dad a Korean War vet died on the 10 of August. I'll share these for rememberance.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16953 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: They shall be remembered... Reply #42 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 8:06pm Thanks...
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Reply #43 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 9:12pm

I was fortunate during my time in the Army to serve beside a Korean War veteran. He had served with 3 RAR and fortunately missed the battle of Kapyong, being on leave at the time in Japan. He had some very interesting stories to tell, some of which I'm sure were true. He's now dead, unfortunately. I attended his funeral a few years ago. Cry

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Reply #44 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 9:21pm

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 9:12pm:

I was fortunate during my time in the Army to serve beside a Korean War veteran. He had served with 3 RAR and fortunately missed the battle of Kapyong, being on leave at the time in Japan. He had some very interesting stories to tell, some of which I'm sure were true. He's now dead, unfortunately. I attended his funeral a few years ago. Cry

My dad told some pretty horrific scenarios. As an engineer you build pontoon bridges but when so many bodies are floating, bloated, down the river that they endanger the bridge, you have to do something, They tried pulling them out of the river but that didn't work, their arms, scalps whatever you grabbed just pulled off. The only way that worked was bayoneting their bloated bellies to make them sink under the bridge.

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