F40, F18 & R12. Cycling, F1, lager and infantry 4th Battalion Royal Green Jackets Recce Platoon. Ex Met. Thames Ironworks. Made in the Royal Navy boy then man.
The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, 1920.
Thatโs HMS Unison back in Portsmouth. This is her crew when they were still in Malta, before being hit by the Yankee Arrow, a US armed tanker, in a friendly fire incident, which killed one and wounded two, including the CO, Anthony Daniell DSO DSC. He was my grandfather
At just 14, Clifford lied to serve; killed before 16 at Passchendaele. This Remembrance Day, we honour Canadaโs youngest heroes who paid the ultimate price for our peace. Lest we forget. #RemembranceDay#LestWeForget
Well I am back home, my shipmates were just brilliant, had a wonderful time at the Barbican. Apart from Union Strasse Guzz nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.
Well I am off to Guzz for the weekend, see some old shipmates. I know a lot has changed and perhaps not for the better. I do feel a bit weird, itโs been over 30yrs since I was there, very sentimentalโ๏ธ
So we are rid of, by her own hand, the most illiterate, solid, chavvy and vindictive Deputy PM I have ever seen in my sixty odd years. Prescott took some beating, but she made him look classy.