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Title: Trafalgar day
Post by: dave301bounty on October 23, 2011, 05:56:54 pm

 Did any one put a post ,it was the anniversary  Trafalgar last Friday ,just been infored by a mate who has just come back from  Afgan .,they selebrated

Title: Re: Trafalgar day
Post by: Xtian29 on October 23, 2011, 06:02:45 pm

hum hum ...  <:(

Title: Re: Trafalgar day
Post by: Peter Fitness on October 23, 2011, 09:45:51 pm

When I was a boy in Sydney (many years ago  :-) ) the Royal Australian Navy would put on a big display at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard on Trafalgar Day. Many ships of the RAN and some units from visiting navies would be open for inspection, and I was lucky enough to go on board some of them. I can remember being on some British ships such as the carriers Illustrious and Victorious, and the submarine Telemachus; this was back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but unfortunately I did not own a camera then. Nowadays, Trafalgar Day barely rates a mention.

Peter.

Title: Re: Trafalgar day
Post by: nhp651 on October 23, 2011, 09:52:36 pm

We should really have an Agincourt day in ol' blightey............... {-) {-) {-) {-) %% %% %% %% %%

make for the air raid shelter neil, before the flack starts {-) {-) {-) {-)

Title: Re: Trafalgar day
Post by: Kangaroo1 on October 23, 2011, 10:07:04 pm

Peter...

When I served in the RN in the 80's Trafalgar day was still celebrated..... but only in the Wardroom.

Title: Re: Trafalgar day
Post by: Xtian29 on October 24, 2011, 12:37:39 pm

Hello

I never understood why there is a Trafalgar square and a Waterloo station in London ... there is not name like that at Paris ?

 {-)

Hopefully this stupid time of anglo-french war is finish : still rugby !

Xtian