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Interests. Americans at Shorncliffe #FWW https://bsky.app/profile/shorncliffemilcem.bsky.social One of Jock Tamson's Bairns

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It did happen, the soles of thousands of shoes disappeared into thin air.

24.09.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Short answer: Yes, it is also possible for a minority party to govern. It depends on how much support a potential PM can get in the House of Commons.

23.09.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Easy to maintain. Easy to fly. Would not use the emergency exit. Can not use them for commercial flights in the US. Would go halves if, checks pocket, full price is Β£6,34 or less.

21.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Andy Stewart.

20.09.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is next to the Any Button.

17.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It will all be overshadowed by the impending orange ugliness.

16.09.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where do you think WWII will end?

14.09.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Plays well

14.09.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After serial killing, muffin the mule is the next step.

11.09.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was the day Joni and I decided to get married.

11.09.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is the "Any Button" that does it for me, still can't find it.

11.09.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is not wealth that trickles down; it is technology.

11.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And it is extremely complicated. It took me 45 years to get a war crimes enquiry into just one individual.

10.09.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of it was based on need. We needed the Nazis. They knew how things worked. We needed their industries, large and small to get West Germans working again. Then I think there was the sheer number. If I remember correctly, you were never more than 10km from someone using forced labour.

10.09.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the CLC was very good at maintaining tanks, but the eyes originated with Eu Tong Sen, a Chinese businessman who requested the eyes be painted on the tank he raised money to buy.

09.09.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This tradition was long followed by a single Battalion in the Army. 4 Royal Tank Regiment for the most part. It is now continued by I think "D" Company in the Royal Tank Regiment.

08.09.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah, that is an imposter. During the FWW a Chinese businessman Eu Tong Sen, raised money to buy one of the latest tanks for the British Army. It was decided to follow Chinese tradition and paint eyes on the tank. How else was the tank going to see where it was going?

08.09.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I find tanks with eyes fascinating. My dad was attached to 4RTR when I was born. That was just under 70 years ago. Caught up with them in Malaya and then BAOR and West Berlin. Managed to chat with Gen Alan Jolly in Malaya.

08.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The British Army had soldiers who had the trade "Muleteer" in the mid-1970s

08.09.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank goodness I'm not normal

06.09.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gott Jam England

06.09.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Times have changed, my Gran would have quite happily strung up anyone who celebrated Mass, and that included Christmas.

05.09.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reform voters should be encouraged to stop using Arabic Numerals, stop drinking coffee, tea, or alcohol, stop using their computers, and use/drink a whiteness equivalent.

05.09.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we are conducting our own legal business, why do we need to identify ourselves?

04.09.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember Throbbing Gristle well.

04.09.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is the lesson we should learn from this?

02.09.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the 20th and 21st of September I will be talking about and taking people around the graves at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent. Some of the soldiers buried there served in Crimea, there is a link to the Franco-Prussian War, The FWW in Burma. The Wars in Afghanistan, Ashanti, Zulu, and more.

01.09.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

was a nephew of Chin Peng. I showed him the graves of the Chinese buried in the Cemetery. He was surprised I knew who Chin Peng OBE was, and by extension, who he was. We had a good chat about what it was like to live in Malaya back in the day.

31.08.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are a few Malaya Veterans buried in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, including a soldier who worked with Native Head Hunters, this was in the 1960s, a memorial to a soldier killed in Malaya, and a child who died in Malaya. Another person I met with a connection to the Malayan Emergency

31.08.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In Australia and New Zealand today, August 31 is Malaya and Borneo Veterans Day. One of the veterans I met was Rambahadur Limbu VC, after he was awarded his VC, but before he received the medal.

31.08.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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