I know little about The Royal Marines. My paternal grandfather is my only connection to this group, though he never was a member of them (that I am aware of). He lived in Gillingham, now part of Chatham UK, and was the home of Marine barracks. I recently found on Twitter Clive Holden who is…
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Just send money
I have a friend, a session mate from our training days at the College for Officer Training and a collegue, who currently is appointed to International Headquarters. In preparation for Christmas cards his assistant connected with me to get our address now that we’ve relocated to Edmonton. In our chat I suggested that Lee not…
We will remember
This wonderful tribute to UK troops who gave their lives during World War I counts 888,426 ceramic poppies placed around The Tower in London. One poppy for ever soldier lost in that war, the war to end all wars. Of course it didn’t and the wars continue. But on this day we stop to remember…
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