costard Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 We can't help the fact that we're bred of criminal stock. What's your excuse? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 What's your excuse? Distracted by all those sheep? **shrug** 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 05 September 1939 The first RAF Officer POW of the Second World War is captured. Flying Officer L H Edwards, a New Zealander, was captured when his Anson was shot down into the North Sea. Two days after the declaration of war. Outstanding effort, F/O Edwards. His back-pay must have been quite substantial by 1945. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Pilot Officer Edwards,1 was attacked by an enemy seaplane over the North Sea. His guns failed; the machine caught fire and crashed on the sea. The enemy pilot, keen to have confirmation of his victory, landed and picked Edwards up and he became the first British officer to be made prisoner of war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 More on PO Edwards action here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 11 September 1944 The War Cabinet approves the disbandment of 3 New Zealand Division, and that 2 New Zealand Division be left in Europe until the end of hostilities. No more swanning around in the Pacific team, time to go fight the Germans. (also: I found out last week that my Grandfather was part of 3 Div and the Nissan Island invasion force.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 12, 2013 Author Share Posted September 12, 2013 12 September 1916 Western Front - New Zealand artillery fires poison-gas shells for the first time, at the Somme. Serves the Somme right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 13 September 1940 Private G.R. Osborne of the 4 Reserve MT Company becomes the first New Zealander killed in action in the Second World War. He is killed by a thermos bomb explosion in the Western Desert. Friday the 13th. Typical ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 27 September 1901 South Africa: at the appropriately named Bastard’s Drift, Trooper I.E. Baigent of the Sixth Contingent returned to rescue a fellow New Zealander after his horse had been shot from under him. Reaching the man under intense Boer fire, Baigent took him on his own horse and they rode to safety. Baigent was recommended for the Victoria Cross and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Two little boys had two little toys Each had a wooden horse Gaily they played each summer's day Warriors both of course One little chap then had a mishap Broke off his horse's head Wept for his toy then cried with joy As his young playmate said Did you think I would leave you crying When there's room on my horse for two Climb up here Jack and don't be crying I can go just as fast with two When we grow up we'll both be soldiers And our horses will not be toys And I wonder if we'll remember When we were two little boys Long years had passed, war came so fast Bravely they marched away Cannon roared loud, and in the mad crowd Wounded and dying lay Up goes a shout, a horse dashes out Out from the ranks so blue Gallops away to where Joe lay Then came a voice he knew Did you think I would leave you dying When there's room on my horse for two Climb up here Joe, we'll soon be flying I can go just as fast with two Did you say Joe I'm all a-tremble Perhaps it's the battle's noise But I think it's that I remember When we were two little boys Do you think I would leave you dying There's room on my horse for two Climb up here Joe, we'll soon by flying Back to the ranks so blue Can you feel Joe I'm all a tremble Perhaps it's the battle's noise But I think it's that I remember 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodin Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 The Russian WW1 Tsar Tank is prob my favourite crazy tank design. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 01 October 1956 A khaki general service cap begins to replace the lemon squeezer hat as part of the Army’s working dress. The lemon squeezer is retained for ceremonial use until August 1961. It was reintroduced for ceremonial purposes again in 1977. The distinctive headdress had been developed by Lieutenant Colonel W.G. Malone for use by his Taranaki territorial battalion in 1911, the shape of the hat resembling the shape of Mt Taranaki, and during World War I became the hat worn by most of the NZEF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Armies have always seemed to fancy odd headgear, and I don't quite know why. Maybe to provoke civilians into making rude comments so that they (the hat wearers) can justify beating the crap out of them? I don't know... Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Military headgear often reflects something about civilian headgear of the time - Shakos are militarized top hats, tricornes were also civilian wear and became bicornes, the lemon squeezer and Aussie "slouch hat" were common headgear in the dominions - the lemon squeezer was also found to have a useful characteristic that it did not gather water in the rain! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 04 October 1917 Belgium (Western Front) – after a period of training out of the line, the New Zealander Division returns to take part in the closing stages of the Third Battle of Ypres. They attack the Gravenstafel Spur near Broodseinde at Passchendaele before dawn, suffering 1,707 casualties in about 8 hours. The attack was considered a spectacular success, and continues to be viewed that way today. Some success, and it says a lot about the nature of battle in WWI. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 07 October 1917 Felix Graf (Count) von Luckner, captain of the German raider SMS SEEADLER (Sea Eagle), is captured in Fiji. He and five of his crew arrive in Auckland en route to a prisoner-of-war camp on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 WWII in 7 minutes: (I found the advance/retreat through Greece and into Yugoslavia in late 1944 particularly intriguing) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 15 October 1942 17 New Zealand Coastwatchers and 2NZEF servicemen, along with 5 British and Australian civilians, are murdered by the Japanese on Tarawa Atoll, in what is now Kiribati. Their remains have never been recovered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Military headgear often reflects something about civilian headgear of the time - Shakos are militarized top hats' date=' tricornes were also civilian wear and became bicornes, the lemon squeezer and Aussie "slouch hat" were common headgear in the dominions - the lemon squeezer was also found to have a useful characteristic that it did not gather water in the rain! [/quote'] Is there any material difference between a "lemon squeezer" military hat and the Canadian Royal Mounties hat? For that matter, even between a Boy Scouts hat? Regards KR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Is there any material difference between a "lemon squeezer" military hat and the Canadian Royal Mounties hat? For that matter, even between a Boy Scouts hat? The USMC and also US Army used a similar design for a good part of the 20th. century. IIRC, the USMC DIs were still wearing it in boot camp right through the Viet Nam war. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 31 October 1917 Palestine - The Turkish line at Beersheba is broken. New Zealand Mounted Rifles, part of the Anzac Mounted Division, takes part in the battle to break the Ottoman line at Beersheba, making way for the charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade. 31 October 1918 Palestine – the Turkish armies have ceased to exist as fighting formations. An armistice between the Ottoman and Allied forces comes into effect at noon. What a difference a year makes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 31 October 1917 Palestine - The Turkish line at Beersheba is broken. New Zealand Mounted Rifles, part of the Anzac Mounted Division, takes part in the battle to break the Ottoman line at Beersheba, making way for the charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade. There is an article about this focusing on the Aussies in the latest issue of Military History. I haven't read it yet as it just arrived in my mailbox yesterday, but it looks interesting. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Is there any material difference between a "lemon squeezer" military hat and the Canadian Royal Mounties hat? For that matter, even between a Boy Scouts hat? Regards KR Completely different from the Mounties one - the Mounties have one of the "flat panels" facing directly forwards - the lemon squeezer has a crease pointing forwards. ..sheesh!! Alternatively no - they are all just your basic "slouch hat" as worn for hundreds of years or with the cap formatted in different ways - they aren't actually even materially different from the Tricorne and Bicorne - those forms have the brim folded up rather than the cap pushed in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted November 4, 2013 Author Share Posted November 4, 2013 04 November 1918 France – using scaling ladders, New Zealanders attack the 18-metre high ramparts of the fortress town of and capture it from the Germans. It is the last major action of the war for the New Zealand Division and one in which it captures nearly 2,000 prisoners and 60 field guns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 07 November 1919 United Kingdom – King George V issues a proclamation calling for a two-minute silence to be observed at 1100 hours on Remembrance Day, 11 November, every year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 11 November 1942 The troop ship AWATEA is attacked by German and Italian bombers off the coast of Bougie (Bejaia). Although its gunners shot down several planes, AWATEA is set on fire and holed by torpedoes. Everyone on board gets off safely … except for the ship’s cat, apparently killed by a bomb blast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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