During the war

[Deleted User]

It's probably our freedom and liberty we're talking about here but each to their own.

 

[Notafettler]

Anyway I need a new knee first.

 

[Salad Dodger]

I'm past the sell by date.
Also, if my one go at air rifle shooting is anything to go by, I couldn't hit a barn door at five paces!

 

[Drago]

Also, if my one go at air rifle shooting is anything to go by, I couldn't hit a barn door at five paces!

I'll put you down for the French Army.

 

[pjd57]

I'm too old , and would probably have been classed as a conshie.
Might have to go back to fighting fires.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Surprising. I am reading a book about the Battle of Bulge and it makes a big thing about the Germans "combing out people in their 40s from industry" to make up the numbers to fight the battle. I had no idea that the limit in the UK was 52. I would be too old to be called up now though by a few years.

I'm fighting the Battle of the Bulge at this very moment - bloody mince pies.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I think you will find that normally soldiers are buried near to where they fall, particularly in the first and second world wars and not in Accrington cemetery by the pie factory.

Oh well i must be seeing things then. Those brown gravestones and those white ones i've been seeing for 60 years in Great Harwood cemetery must be a figment of my imagination.

Great Harwood Cemetery contains 27 Commonwealth war graves from the First World War and 17 from the Second World War.
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/77849/Commonwealth-War-Graves-Great-Harwood-Cemetery.htm

 

[stephec]

Literally? Or are we talking Germany v UK.
You know we would have to pass through France first?
I wouldn't be entirely against that and only partly because I am to old!

Literally, as the post I replied to said, those that are so keen on starting wars should be the first ones on the front line.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

You are Corporal Klinger, and I claim my £5 note.
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As soon as I posted it I expected some smart comment........... That one is quality.

 

[Notafettler]

Oh well i must be seeing things then. Those brown gravestones and those white ones i've been seeing for 60 years in Great Harwood cemetery must be a figment of my imagination.

Great Harwood Cemetery contains 27 Commonwealth war graves from the First World War and 17 from the Second World War.
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/77849/Commonwealth-War-Graves-Great-Harwood-Cemetery.htm

normally

It matters where they die. For instance Afghanistan where relatives wouldn't be able to visit the graves and the graves would be desecrated anyway.

 

[BoldonLad]

I think you will find that normally soldiers are buried near to where they fall, particularly in the first and second world wars and not in Accrington cemetery by the pie factory.

While I am sure you are right, in general, I have seen WW1 and WW2 graves in cemeteries in UK, apart from the obvious, ie those service personnel killed on UK soil (eg air raids, etc), or, air crew, I always assumed they were service personnel who died of wounds after returning to UK.

 

[rockyroller]

So how would it work out for you?

just 14 days after "9/11" I visited, walked, smelled & touched the horror 1st hand, a mere 15 minute drive from where I grew up. I was between jobs & after consulting no one, I called a US Air Force recruitment center. I was about 40 yrs old. they didn't want me. the recruiter said: "sorry, there's nothing I can do for you"

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Apart from bullets.

How many?

 

[Yellow Fang]

No one fancies dressing up in women's clothing and entertaining the troops?

 

[MichaelW2]

Say what you like about the Nazis but they certainly know how to put on an impressive torchlight parade. Always neatly turned out and with a sharp eye for correct manners. I'm sure we can come to some amicable arrangement that prevents us having to fight the Great War over again. I see no great hardship in lending a hand when they come, provided those ghastly bolsheviks ruffians and cosmopolitan types can be dealt with. Any well mannered officer would be welcome to dine at my country house.