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dave301bounty
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Trafalgar day
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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
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October 23, 2011, 06:02:45 pm »
hum hum ...
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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.
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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
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Kangaroo1
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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.
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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
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