WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

Iceland [Population 300,000) knocking Engerland out of the football......

[Stanley]

Tiz came across these three pages in Picture Postcard Monthly magazine for July 2016....

[Stanley]

Blanket coverage of Wombledon [sic].

[LizG]

[Tripps]

Sorry - I very rarely do this but it must be pointed out - SIC

[plaques]

Perhaps Stanley misspelt it and it should read 'Wobbledom'.

[Tripps]

Sorry - I quickly read it as Wimbledon - hence my response. Won't do any harm to point people to the meaning though. I had to explain it to both my (graduate) kids.

[Tizer]

Blanket coverage of EU and the referendum [sick]
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These kids caught my attention today having fun in Vivary Park in Taunton. No overpowering Elfin Safety here!

[PanBiker]

They have a similar facility in Colne but it has recently shut down.

[Whyperion]

Blanket Covers at Wimbledon {sack]

Strictly the Wombles are on the common, wherehas AELTC is in boarders of Wimbledon Park (though the history of the Park /Common and the Spencers is quite fascinating

[Stanley]

I inserted 'sic' after Wombledom to indicate that this was an accurate transcription of my thought. I hope that this is now clear....
The fact that what seems to be the collective destructive tendency in the Westminster Village is having an effect on my peace of mind. Must go into the shed!

[Tripps]

I did say sorry - but being pedantic 'sic' is an abbreviation of 'sic erat scriptum' meaning 'thus was it written' - indicating a written source, rather than a thought.

[Tizer]

Are you looking for a job with Michael Gove, Tripps?

[Stanley]

Yup. That's how I wrote it......
Tiz, I think David would be justified in taking that as an insult to his intelligence.....
The fact that I had no motivation for shed work yesterday.... I reckon that the present state of governance in the UK is making me poorly!

[Tizer]

Tiz, I think David would be justified in taking that as an insult to his intelligence.....

Tripps will know what I mean and won't be offended!

[PanBiker]

I think it should be noted that today is the 100th anniversary of the start of the battle of the Somme.

7.28am on July 1st 1916 in the trenches of the Somme, whistles blew to signal an action that would consume 1 million men in the 141 day battle that followed. The darkest day in British military history 19,240 British soldiers were killed on the first day.

Lest we forget.

[Tripps]

"Tripps will know what I mean and won't be offended!"

Indeed you are right. I will withdraw from the contest now like a gentleman.

Quite unrelated but for some reason it reminds me of the quote -

"I was wrong once, I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"

[Thomo]

On this day 100 years ago, 3 Men from this Town died in France, they were :-

Private Percy Stead of No. 7 Arthur St. Service No. 7706 of the Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry A former porter on our railway station, born in Bradford 1891. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

Private Peter Swales of No. 22 East Hill St. Service No. 2119 of the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment, later Service No. 19271 of the East Lancashire Regiment, he is buried in the Sucrerie Military Cemetery at Colincamps. He had been a weaver at Coates Mill.

Private Thomas Frederick Theodore of No. 1 Manchester Rd. Service No. 14922 of the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment, he is Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

We Will Remember Them. Always!

[Tizer]

My mother's father, a South African, was in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Hampshire Regiment and fought on the Western Front and in Salonika. He was wounded and evacuated back to Blighty but I know little more than that because his war record was among those lost in the Blitz in WW2. All we have are his medal records. My mother didn't know how he joined up - was it in SA or did he come to Britain and then join? I recall seeing it written that the men joining from the Commonwealth were placed in the Northern Irish regiments but I don't know if that's true.

[Stanley]

What an easy time the news media are having. No problem filling pages or air time... I suppose next week it will be Chilcot and the Blair defence..... (They have given him enough time to get his strategy together....)

[Thomo]

Tizer, I need a name. My Maternal Grandfather was with the RAMC in Salonika and I have his diary listing they that he treated.

[Tizer]

Thanks Thomo. His name was William George Tyler. The medal roll shows him as 19183 in the Hampshires and as 41369 in the Royal Inniskillings. That's the order on the roll but I don't know if that means it was the chronological order in which he served. He's listed for `Star' and it has a `15' inked in front of the word. `Theatre of war served in' is 2A and `date of entry' therein is 22.11.15 (does that mean date of entry into the theatre of war or date of entry into the medal roll?). Under Remarks it has `Serving'.

My grandfather recovered from his wounds in England, married the nurse who had looked after him and sailed back to South Africa in 1921 with his wife and first child. I have a small autograph book that he carried on the voyage and in which he made this drawing...

Identity of flags, left to right in the image: UK, Russia Czar's flag), Italy, USA, Belgium, France.

[Thomo]

Thank you Tizer, I will see what I can find out.

[Thomo]

Today another young Man who came to live and work here lost his life in France, he was Private Thomas Francis, Service No, 7698 of the Prince of Wales West Riding Regiment, he was 23 years old. Born in 1893 at Oswaldtwistle he married Miss Gertrude Bird in 1914, they lived at No. 3 Bankfield Street, behind Bankfield Mill. Thomas was killed on the 3rd of July 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

[Whyperion]

Thomo, we must chat at some time. Found some RAMC stuff in the Mother-In-Laws stuff mentioning Salonika Too, number of postcards sent. It seems that RAMC assigned persons did not always travel with 'regiments' in the same way as others. Werent the Commonwealh Stars given out in 1915 for some reason, rather than end of war?