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Released online and in stores July 29, 2013
Purchased in store July 29, 2013
First Look. Personal photos.
The new Eric 21'' plush is a good match for the new 21'' Ariel plush (in pink dress). He looks pretty good, and is solidly built. However the expression on his face is a little goofy, with the puzzled eyebrows and his mouth in a smirk. His eyes are wide open and staring straight ahead, with his pupils rather small. Almost as though he has been hypnotized by Vanessa. He looks spiffy in his white shirt, red satin sash, blue pants and black rubber boots.
Product information from US Disney Store website:
Prince Eric Plush Doll - 21''
$19.95
Item No. 1262000440034P
Kiss the girl
Before lonely Prince Eric finds his true love in that mysterious girl from beyond the sea, he'll be happy to get a soft hug of encouragement from your own little princess!
Magic in the details...
•Soft plush construction
•Embroidered features
•Satin sash and vinyl boots
•Celebrating the return of Disney's The Little Mermaid on DVD and Blu-ray
•Part of the Disney Princess Plush Doll Collection
•Part of The Little Mermaid Plush Collection
•Also look for our Ariel Plush Doll - 21'' in both human and mermaid form, sold separately
The bare necessities
•Polyester
•21'' H
•Imported
A good day for pictures by the lake - Lake Decatur. Looks like someone else had the same idea. (It was also a bit breezy.)
Ford Zodiac Mk.III (1962-66) Engine 2553cc S6 OHV Production 77,781
Body Abbott of Farnham
Registration Number ASX 21 B (Edinburgh)
FORD UK
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The Mark III Zephyr and Zodiac range was launched in 1966, completley restyled from the earlier generation though sharing some of its wmechanical components, as well as the basic chassis design, with the Mark II models. The exterior was designed by Canadian Roy Brown who also designed the Edsel and the Cortina, Rather than continue the Consul name, Ford UK decided to call its replacement Zephyr 4, the 4 indicating that it still used the four-cylinder 1,703 cc. The Zephyr Six and the Zodiac were powered by the Mark II Zephyr and Zodiacs 2,553 cc straight six engine but with a higher compression ratio and broader torque band. Unlike the Zephyr 4, the Zephyr 6 had a full width grille including the headlight surrounds: overall body length and width were the same for both Zephyr III versions.
The Zodiac was an upmarket version of the Zephyr 6, but differed considerably from that model by the limousine-type rear doors, sharper roofline (with narrower C-pillar) and tail, unique grille (four headlights instead of two), exclusive bumper bars, plusher seating, and up-market upholstery, dashboard and interior fittings. A choice of individual or bench front seat was available trimmed in leather or cloth. The front doors and bonnet panels were shared with the Zephyr 6. The Executive version had extra luxury fittings again. The 2553 cc single-carburettor six-cylinder engine was improved internally to increase the power output to 109 bhp and a new four-speed all synchromesh transmission with column change was fitted. The brakes, servo assisted, use discs at the front and drum at the rear.
Only Saloon were made by Ford, while the rarer Estate version were the work of Abbotts of Farnham. Large orders came from Ford for estate car versions of their Consul and Zephyr models which kept the firm in business during the late 1950s and early 1960s, after which Ford estate production (aside from the Corsair) was done by Ford themselves as the level of demand had shown mass production was viable.
Many Thanks for a fan'dabi'dozi 30,725,200 views
Shot 167.11.2014 at The National Exhibition Centre, Classic and Sportscar Show Ref 103-350
Name: Cliona Ashling Ortega
Age: 21
Height: 5'10
Ethnicity: Irish/Mexican/Russian
Current Home: Dublin, Ireland
Current Job: Interior Designer
Favorite Fashion Designer: Sophie Albou
What She Can Bring To The Competition: Cliona will bring out the inner her through her sense of style, give an insight of her view on modeling, and shine forth skills that nobody ever dreamed to imagine she possessed.
Cliona is an intelligent, down-to-earth girl who has always secretly looked at models as mentors, and is determined to create something extraordinary out of her unique God given beauty and a fashion sense with variety. She was raised by wealthy parents, and in result, has a reputation of fuming up and lashing out at people whenever she doesn't get what she wants. However, recognizing this hard-to-control flaw, Cliona has no intention of soiling what could be the chance of a life time by allowing her nasty side to shine out at any stage of this contest--no matter where she may end up. By having to put her interior design career on a hold, biting her tongue and being highly determined to give her all, Cliona believes that she can take on every challenge in this competition successfully and, through her progress, make a statement that nobody will forget.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia in sol maggiore KV 124
Franz Joseph Haydn Sinfonia in mi minore n. 44 "Trauer-Symphonie"
Ernest Chausson Concerto in re magg. per violino, pianoforte e orchestra d'archi op. 21
Lavard Skou Larsen: direttore e violino solista
Philippe Raskin: pianoforte
Salzburg Chamber Soloists
Ravenna Musica 2016 Concerto n. 9
This window light is absolutely delicious.
Day 21
P.S.--Day 21 was inspired by Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman of A Beautiful Mess, the blog. I recently flipped through their photo idea book, and creativity just dawned upon me. It was osmosis, I guess. I love these two--check them out: A Beautiful Mess!
And after you finish browsing their blog, stop by mine: By Shari Alisha!
Last August 13 my car needed a bath. So I drove to the car wash in Grand Ledge, taking pix along the way.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 21
Title of folder: To GL and Back
Other photos taken on 8/13/2021: none
[NL]
Mattheus 16:21
"Wat heeft een mens eraan de hele wereld te winnen als hij er het leven bij inschiet? Wat zou een mens niet overhebben voor zijn leven?"
Vanavond na zonsondergang is het 14 nisan volgens de Joodse kalender. Een hele bijzondere datum, of de mensheid nou geïnteresseerd is of niet. Ik ben er achter gekomen dat eeuwig leven op aarde, zonder leed, ziekte en dood op deze dag mogelijk is geworden - 1982 jaar geleden. Daarom sta ik er bij stil.
Iedereen is - wereldwijd - van harte welkom! :-)
[EN]
Matthew 16:21
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
Tonight after sunset it's Nisan 14, according to the Jewish calendar. A very special day, whether humanity cares or not.
I found out that everlasting life on earth, without suffering, illness or death is made possible on this day - 1982 years ago.
Everyone is - worldwide - invited.
Footnote
This photostream is my own 'diary' and I advertise here what I feel like advertising. My opinion is not a family legacy, but formed on the basis of personal research and study. Of course we're all entitled to our own opinions. Enjoy your day! :)
Concierto de DOMANI SAPONE formado por Richard y Diana Majo, presentado su disco VOLUMEN I, que tuvo lugar en Espacio Vías, León, el 29 de mayo´21.
Our Hairpin Lace Cardi Wrap is a very versatile garment. Here Jennifer wears it tied in back and teams it with some wide-legged pants and a statement necklace. Other details on her outfit:
Shoes: B.O.C
Pants/Necklace: Forever 21
Tank: Had forever
Earrings: Stolen from mom
Cardi: Crocheted following a Stitch Diva Studios pattern
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September 18, 2013: An SM-3 Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS Lake Erie during a MDA test and successfully intercepted a complex short-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Learn more at www.mda.mil/system/aegis_bmd.html.
Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.
[Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946]
1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Notes:
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 484
Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
Purchase William P. Gottlieb
Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
In: The Record Changer, v. 5, no. 7 (Sept. 46, 1946), p. 21.
Subjects:
Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-
Women jazz musicians--1940-1950.
Jazz singers--1940-1950.
Café Society (Downtown)
Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950.
Film negatives--1940-1950.
Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig...
Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
(contact print) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
(reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/
Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005
General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.08831
Call Number: LC-GLB13- 0883
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The Temple of Dendur
•Period: Roman Period
•Reign: reign of Augustus Caesar
•Date: completed by 10 B.C.
•Geography: From Egypt, Nubia, Dendur, West bank of the Nile River, 50 miles South of Aswan
•Medium: Aeolian sandstone
•Dimensions:
oTemple Proper:
Height: 6.40 m (21 ft.)
Width: 6.40 m (21 ft.)
Length: 12.50 m (41 ft.)
oGate:
Height: 8.08 m (26.5 ft.)
Width: 3.66 m (12 ft.)
Depth: 3.35 m (11 ft.)
•Credit Line: Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967, and installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978
•Accession Number: 68.154
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 131.
Egyptian temples were not simply houses for a cult image but also represented, in their design and decoration, a variety of religious and mythological concepts. One important symbolic aspect was based on the understanding of the temple as an image of the natural world as the Egyptians knew it. Lining the temple base are carvings of papyrus and lotus plants that seem to grow from water, symbolized by figures of the Nile god Hapy. The two columns on the porch rise toward the sky like tall bundles of papyrus stalks with lotus blossoms bound with them. Above the gate and temple entrance are images of the sun disk flanked by the outspread wings of Horus, the sky god. The sky is also represented by the vultures, wings outspread, that appear on the ceiling of the entrance porch.
On the outer walls between earth and sky are carved scenes of the king making offerings to deities who hold scepters and the ankh, the symbol of life. The figures are carved in sunk relief. In the brilliant Egyptian sunlight, shadows cast along the figures’ edges would have emphasized their outlines. Isis, Osiris, their son Horus, and the other deities are identified by their crowns and the inscriptions beside their figures. These scenes are repeated in two horizontal registers. The king is identified by his regalia and by his names, which appear close to his head in elongated oval shapes called cartouches; many of the cartouches simply read “pharaoh.” This king was actually Caesar Augustus of Rome, who, as ruler of Egypt, had himself depicted in the traditional regalia of the pharaoh. Augustus had many temples erected in Egyptian style, honoring Egyptian deities. This small temple, built about 15 B.C., honored the goddess Isis and, beside her, Pedesi and Pihor, deified sons of a local Nubian chieftain.
In the first room of the temple, reliefs again show the “pharaoh” praying and offering to the gods, but the relief here is raised from the background so that the figures can be seen easily in the more indirect light. From this room one can look into the temple past the middle room used for offering ceremonies and into the sanctuary of the goddess Isis. The only carvings in these two rooms are around the door frame leading into the sanctuary and on the back wall of the sanctuary, where a relief depicts Pihor worshiping Isis, and below—partly destroyed—Pedesi worshiping Osiris.
Curatorial Interpretation
History
After the conquest of Egypt in 31 B.C., Augustus confiscated the property of Egyptian temples and centralized their administration. As a kind of compensation, he commissioned at least 17 building projects for local gods, including the small Isis-temple of Dendur (ancient Tutzis) in Lower Nubia. No date for the temple’s construction is recorded except that the cartouches include the name of the “Autokrator Kaisaros,” that is Augustus. But one assumes reasonably that it was built during the peaceful years following the Roman-Kushite wars of 25-22 B.C., which had ended with the treaty of Samos of the year 21 B.C.
The dates 20 or 15 B.C. are usually given. Since Augustus only died in 14 A.D., a later date can not be ruled out. There is also no evidence for the Roman prefect who may have commissioned the building. The three possible candidates are:
•Gaius Petronius or Publius Petronius: 24 B.C. - 21 B.C. (who destroyed Napata)
•Publius Rubrius Barbarus: to 12 B.C.
•Gaius Turranius: 7 B.C. - 4 B.C.
A detailed Coptic inscription states that in 577 (or 559?) A.D. the temple was converted into a Christian church. Since 1820, the temple has been a favorite travel destination for explorers and artists, who produced numerous depictions and early photographs of the temple. Graffiti on the pronaos walls recall their visits.
The first Aswan dam brought the water 3 m below the doorsill of the temple. In 1908, conservation work was carried out in preparation for a seasonal flooding of the building. The building was completely drowned annually by the two raisings of the first Aswan dam, in 1907-12 and 1929-33. Remains of the wall paint were washed away but the walls remained structurally unharmed. Lake Nasser, created in 1970 by the building of the Aswan High Dam, would have submerged the temple forever. In 1962, the gate and temple were therefore documented and taken down as part of the Nubian salvage campaign. In recognition of the American contribution to the campaign, the gate and temple were presented to the United States in 1965.
Thanks to the initiative of Henry Fischer and Thomas Hoving, the temple was awarded to the Metropolitan Museum and in 1974/75 rebuilt in the newly created Sackler wing designed by Kevin Roche (born 1922) and John Dinkeloo (1918-81). The architects were faced with the problem that the temple was not free standing but built into a sloping rock surface, a landscape that was not desired by the Museum. The temple therefore had to be squeezed into the shape of a freestanding building, presented on a granite stage. The material chosen (red granite and “mason granite”) reflects with its shiny, polished surfaces the architect’s imagination of imperial-style pharaonic architecture. The stepped planes in front and around the temple house are modern creations that do not follow the original arrangement. These alterations, implemented for practical reasons, are quite appealing for the visitor but not hold up against modern conservation standards. The opening was celebrated on September 27, 1978.
Description
a)Cult Terrace
The temple towered impressively over the water of the Nile, visually supported by a 3.5 m high, 15 m broad and 16 m deep terrace (much higher than the reconstruction in the Museum). The front of the terrace had no opening but a front curving inward, probably better to withstand the torrent of the Nile. Similar terraces are known at Elephantine, Philae, Qasr Ibrim, Kalabsha, Ajuala and Dabod (see Jaritz 1980, pls. 48-49). The waterfront and the sides were closed with low parapet walls, which were underpinned by a heavy, protruding ledge. The re-creation in the Museum is made of granite because the original sandstone would not have withstood the museum’s traffic. The granite parapet wall designed by Roche-Dinkeloo consisted originally of two courses of blocks. The upper course was removed in 1995 in order to improve the vista on the temple terrace.
b)Temple Enclosure and Gate
The temple enclosure (temenos) rose on top of a 90 cm high step above the rear (west) side of the terrace. A monumental gate in the center formed the east front of the temenos.
The gate was for unknown reasons not exactly aligned with the temple-house behind. The visible parts of the gate are decorated with relief. The gate is 6.50 m high (including the cavetto), the doorway is 1.60 m wide and 4.35 m (from the court level). A staircase of 5 steps leads from the gate down onto the cult terrace.
The rough outer sidewalls of the gate suggest that it was incorporated in a massive wall or pylon built of brick or stone, closing off the Nile front of the temenos. Apparently no traces of a pylon were noticed at the site and it could well be that it was never built. However, the existence of a pylon is implied in the Museum’s reconstruction by a layer of irregular stones.
One would expect that high walls running east-west from the pylon to the mountain slope behind would have enclosed the sides of the temenos. Blackman’s plan shows the remains of these walls, but they no longer appear on Ashiri’s plan of 1972. In the Museum reconstruction, the parapet walls flanking the front platform suggest a continuation backwards in the direction of the cliffs.
The interior floor of the temenos was never completely level and the rock surface began to slope up beginning at the pronaos. The irregular lower edge of the exterior reliefs of the temple walls indicate the inclination of the slope. The center of the east court was treated differently. There, the gate and temple were connected by a 7 m broad walkway, made of masonry and rising 50 cm above the rough court level. This walkway is clearly visible on an old photo of the site. However, the photo was taken after modern consolidation of the temple and how much of it was modern is not recorded.
A door in the lateral south wall is shown on Blackman’s plan. Perhaps another one opened in the north side. However, there was no processional approach from the riverside because the cult terrace blocked an axial approach.
c)Temple House
The temple was primarily dedicated to Isis, mistress of Philae, who was the patron saint of Lower Nubia, an area known as the Dodekaschoinos. Attached was the cult of two brothers, Pedesi and Pihor, the sons of a local Nubian chieftain Quper. They carry the title hesy, which is normally bestowed on people drowned in the Nile. One assumes that Quper and his sons had earned merit in the Meroitic wars of the Romans.
The actual temple house represents a distyle in antis, with two quatrefoil column capitals in the front opening. This temple type was common in Ptolemaic times (as seen for example in tomb chapels at Tuna el-Gebel and Dakka) with several larger variations that include a wider pronaos with more front columns. The temple house is ca. 13 m long, 6.5 m wide and 5 m high (to the roof) and includes 3 consecutive rooms: entrance hall or pronaos; offering hall; and sanctuary. Depictions from the 19th century suggest that the cavetto cornice of the temple house was still largely in place around 1839. Today, only one block is left.
The entrance hall or pronaos has an open front with two 3.95 m high columns (including the abacus) columns carrying the architraves. The columns have quatrefoil papyrus capitals with a four-story lily decoration. The lateral interspaces were closed with screen walls.
The pronaos has a small side door in the southwest corner. This door was part of the temple structure and is incorporated into the decoration of the walls. Another, smaller side door in the northeast corner was cut through the existing building, damaging the wall reliefs. Both doors suggest that the access from the front of the pronaos was not always possible.
A large room follows behind, assumed to have been the offering hall. Except for the door in the rear wall, the room is undecorated, and was apparently unfinished.
The walls of the sanctuary are also undecorated except for a stela-like panel in the center of the rear wall. Its decoration depicts Pihor worshiping Isis, and below – partly destroyed – Pedesi worshiping Osiris. The floor and lowermost part of the rear and sidewalls are carved from the rock.
All the rest of the interior and exterior is covered with relief, showing the “pharaoh” (“kaisaros autokrator”) praying and offering to the gods.
d)Rock Chamber
In the cliff behind the temple was a small rock chamber with a basin in the floor. In front was a court with a kind of tiny pylon. One assumes that this was the tomb of the two brothers and perhaps the predecessor of the temple. The entrance was behind the stela of Pedesi and Pihor.
The 1.65 m thick rear wall of the temple-house includes a built-in secret chamber accessed from the south end through a door closed with a thin, removable block. This crypt has been explained as the tomb of one of the brothers or as a hiding place for a priest giving oracles through a hole in the wall. The crypt could also have been a hiding place for liturgical equipment.
e)Evaluation
The Dendur temple is comparatively small but impressive and a major example of Roman architecture based on the Ptolemaic building tradition in Egypt. The temple demonstrates an important aspect of Egyptian architecture. The modern viewer is impressed by the monumental gate or pylon forming the front of the temple. However, the gate of temples like that of Dendur cannot be reached by a frontal, axial approach. The access is blocked by a cult terrace (for example the first pylon of Karnak or the pylon of Medinet Habu). These pylons/gates were not intended as entrances but as exits, monumental stages where the god (in the form of a cult figure) emerges from the interior and performs his/her appearance at the “gates of appearances.” From the gate of the Dendur temple, the divinity descended onto the cult terrace, were it reposed and viewed the Nile and the realm. Jaritz (1980, pp. 61-654) has shown that the cult terrace of the Khnum temple on Elephantine also was the gathering place for cult communities who celebrated repasts with the divinity.
Dieter Arnold 2016
Provenance
Given to the United States by the Egyptian Government, 1965. Awarded to the Museum by the U.S. Government, 1967.
Selected References
•Gau, Francois Chretien 1822. Antiquités de la Nubie : ou, Monumens inédits des bords du Nil, situés entre la première et la seconde cataracte, dessinés et mesurés en 1819. Stuttgart, pl. 23-5.
•Rifaud, Jean-Jacques 1830. Voyage en Égypte, en Nubie et lieux circonvoisins depuis 1805 jusqu’en 1827. Paris: Crapelet, pp. 27-8.
•Blackman, Aylward M. 1911. The temple of Dendûr. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut Français d’Archeologie Orientale.
•Monnet-Saleh, Janine 1969. “Observations sur le temple de Dendour.” In Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 68, pp. 1–13.
•El-Achiri, Hassan, M. Aly, F.-A. Hamid, and Ch. LeBlanc 1972. Le temple de Dandour, 1-3. Collection scientifique (Markaz Tasjīl al-Āthār al-Miṣrīyah), Cairo.
•Jaritz, Horst 1980. Elephantine III : Die Terrassen vor den Tempeln des Chnum und der Satet : Architektur und Deutung. Mainz am Rhein: Zabern.
•Bagnall, Roger 1985. “Publius Petronius, Augustan Prefect of Egypt.” In Papyrology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 85-93.
•Bianchi, Robert Steven 1998. “The Oracle at the Temple of Dendur.” In Egyptian Religion. The Last Thousand Years. Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur, 85, pp. 773-80.
•Arnold, Dieter 1999. Temples of the Last Pharaohs. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 244-46.
•Hill, Marsha 2000. “Roman Egypt.” In The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West, edited by Elizabeth J. Milleker. New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 84-5, figs. 62-63, p. 207.
•Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p. 58.
•Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, p. 58.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Timelines
•Egypt, 1-500A.D.
MetPublications
•The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators
•“Dendur: The Six-Hundred-Forty-Third Stone”: Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 33 (1998)
•Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Chinese)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (French)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (German)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Italian)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Japanese)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Korean)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Portuguese)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Russian)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Spanish)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Egypt and the Ancient Near East
•One Met. Many Worlds.
•“The Temple of Dendur”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 1 (Summer, 1978)
•The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West
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Random Fact #21 -- I scored better in math than verbal on my SATs.
I just like words a lot more than numbers. I'm careless with numbers, meanwhile quite careful with word choice. You can always re-calculate ##s, but once you say a word - it's out there for eternity and you can't take it back.
Throughout the project, I contemplated doing an extra day to bring the project full circle, to the same day this year. A couple of days ago, I realized the #s weren't adding up, and it took me far too long to remember that this year was a leap year. It's all in the numbers, man!! If you want to get quite technical - today marks the end of the year and the end of the project.
Here is a collection of numbers that may or may not be at all accurate and a collection of words that I may or may not have been thinking about for days.
365(6) Days Statistics
Favorite Days: 014, 144, 216, and 350 (for DRASTICALLY different reasons)
Least Favorite Days: 117 or 344 (although I'm fond of both photos)
Most "Interesting" Day: 315
Least "Interesting" Day: 231
(Yeah, it's pretty boring... that was during the week I was too busy to even upload.)
Most Candid Day: 197
# of days I'd really rather not: too many to count!
# of days dealing with "halves" or "dualities": 74
(I sort of wish it were half of them)
# of horizontal shots: 72
# of square-crops: 20
# of songs stuck in my head: 67
(The Beatles or Hall & Oates or Fiona Apple would win as "Most Played Band/Artist")
# of requests/dedications: 39 (though some were not explicitly stated as such)
# of photos where you cannot see my face (i.e. only parts of me) : 34
# of cameos: 33 (including my Dance Dance Party Party gals here - 42)
Tim Heidecker, Marianne Ways (x3), Christina Dunham (x2), Carla Rhodes, Jake Szufnarowski (x2), Corn Mo (x2), JK Simmons, Phil Costello, Chris Anderson, Tania Mulry, my three monkeys (willX2), AD Miles, Joe LoTruglio, John F. O'Donnell, Jawnee Conroy, Morgan Miller (x9), Joel Blanco (x2), Stella Maeve, Livia Scott, Seth Herzog, John Regan, Sara Jo Allocco, Michael Terry, Eric Slovin, Leo Allen, Nick Kroll, Rob Lathan, Donald Glover, John Mulaney, Jon Daly, John Gemberling + miscellaneous unidentifiable backs of heads + bunches of celebrity comparisons (tragically absent: Cara - my favorite new friend of the year, although she has a couple dedications)
# of photos in Explore: 21
# of random facts: 21 (plus several early on that aren't labeled so)
# of total photo manipulations (i.e. without photoshop, they could not exist): 21
# of toothy smiles: 19
# of mirrors/reflections: 19
# of shots with wigs: 13
# of photos illiterate people will not understand (i.e. text to the image): 14
# of multis (i.e. more than one image juxtaposed: diptychs, triptychs, mosaics, etc) : 11
# of cameras used: 10
Olympus SPZ500 (most days 001-216), MTV's Photobooth, MacBook PhotoBooth, Polaroid (B.Russo's and J.Blanco's), Canon Digital Rebel xTi (216 and on), Panasonic DMC-FX01 (Marianne's x2), Canon Powershot G9 (Christina's), flatbed scanner
# of shots with glasses: 10
# of shots with sunglasses: 4
# of shots utilizing venetian blinds: 10
# of meta photo-within-a-photo types: 9
Most # of days overdue before uploading to Flickr: 7
# of states spanned : 4 (damn, that's sad. one of them was by mistake, too!)
# of clones:4
# of SSUC shots: 4 (+ two private "rejects")
If you don't know what SSUC is, you don't need to know!
# of mini-projects: 3 : "Miss Garrett's Face is Currently Unavailable", "Seven Deadly Sins", and "Adjectives"
# of boys named Chris who played with my heartstrings: 3
(I shit you not. That name is now kryptonite.)
# of mustaches: 2 (a handlebar and a Hitler-esque 'stache)
# of days that technically may/may not be valid: 1 -- Day 22 - some of the images were definitely taken after midnight, but my memory of it all is oh-so-hazy...
# of days added: 1 (Hey, February 29th!)
# of days missed: 0
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It is now officially over. I'm going to go dance and/or party!!!
1) Zev Senesca - Saga Legends (same figure in Rogue Two Snowspeeder)
2) Dorovio Bold - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 1
3) Wes Janson - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 1
4) Biggs Darklighter - 30th Anniversary Collection (TAC)
5) Luke Skywalker - Vintage Original Trilogy Collection (VOTC)
6) Keyan Farlander - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 2
7) Wedge Antilles - Original Trilogy Collection (OTC)
8) Jon "Dutch" Vander, Gold Leader - Saga Collection
9) Tycho Celchu - 30th Anniversary Collection (TAC)
10) Lepira, Gold 4 - Y-Wing Fighter (2007 TRU Exclusive)
11) Kesin Ommis - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 2
12) Ten Numb - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 1
13) Derek "Hobbie" Klivian - Comic 2-pack #12
14) Cesi Eirriss - Evolutions, Rebel Pilot Legacy series 2
15) Garven Dreis, Red Leader - Red Leader's X-Wing Fighter (2004 TRU Exclusive)
16) Luke Skywalker custom (changed head) - Power of the Force 2 (POTF2)
17) Luke Skywalker built-in figure - Luke's Red Five X-Wing Fighter (Electronic Power F/X)
18) Wedge Antilles - Millennium Falcon Carrying Case
19) Dack Ralter - Rogue One Snowspeeder
20) Nien Numb - Power of the Force 2 (POTF2)
21) A-Wing pilot - A-Wing Fighter (POTF2)
22) Luke Skywalker - Power of the Force 2 (POTF2)
23) Jek Porkins - Power of the Jedi (POTJ)
24) Biggs Darklighter (non-removable helmet) - Power of the Force Freeze Frame (FF)
Phew!
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Alfred Richard Barton………………Aged 34
Possibly
Name: BARTON, ALFRED RICHARD
Rank: Second Lieutenant Regiment/Service: South African Infantry Unit Text: 3rd Regt. Date of Death: 18/07/1916
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 4 C. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=770024
This was confirmed by Norlink, where there is a picture of 2nd Lt Barton
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
(and for his brother Hugh - see below for Hugh and the Strumpshaw link)
The most likely link on the 1901 Census is a 18 year old Alfred Richard who is staying with his uncle, Thomas Allday Barton, aged 55 and a farmer, resident at Threxton House, Threxton, Swaffham.
The 9th Division was not involved in the disasters of the first day of the Somme battle, but on 14 July the two Scottish brigades attacked the village of Longueval, and on the following day the South African Brigade was launched at Delville Wood. The wood abutted on the village, and together they formed an important wedge of high ground. Hence the order to the South Africans to take and hold the Wood 'at all costs', and the desperate efforts of the Germans to regain it.
The story of Delville Wood has often been told, for it has an epic quality. The South Africans took virtually all the wood without too much difficulty, but holding it proved another matter. German counter-attacks and shelling were ferocious and incessant. On 18 July, the shelling reached heights of extraordinary fury: often 400 shells a minute would fall on an area roughly 1 000 yards by 1 200. The South Africans repulsed with rifle and bayonet the heavy German attacks that followed. Finally, on the evening of 20 July, six days and five nights after their first advance, the last of the South Africans, 2 officers (both wounded) and 140 men, came Out of the wood. When all the scattered remnants were gathered together, it was found that the Brigade had lost three quarters of its strength, while of those who had actually entered the wood, 90 per cent became casualties.
samilitaryhistory.org/vol082rb.html
Hugh Fabian Barton……………….Aged 19
Name: BARTON, HUGH FABIAN
Rank: Second Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 19 Date of Death: 12/02/1916
Additional information: Son of the Rev. A. J. and Alice E. Barton, of "Wanstrow", Rosebery Rd., Felixstowe, Suffolk. Born at Strumpshaw Rectory, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 3. Cemetery: WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=454342
The 9th Battalion were certainly in the trenches near St Jean during the last two months of 1915.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t...
Norlink picture of 2nd Lt Barton
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The 1901 Census has the 4 year old Hugh Fabian living at The Rectory, Strumpshaw
with his father, the Reverend Alfred John Barton, age 50 and born Threxton. Hugh was born at Guestwick. Also resident is Hugh’s 16 year old sister, Ethel Gertrude and two live in servants - a Cook and a Housemaid.
John Edward Blake……………..Aged 21
Probably
Name: BLAKE, JOHN EDWARD
Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 15/04/1918 Service No: 9350
Additional information: Son of Walter and Hannah Thompson, of Lingwood Rd., Blofield, Norwich; husband of Marjorie Blake, of Postwick, Norwich, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 34 to 35 and 162A. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=845159
No match on Norlink
No obvious matches on the 1901 Census for either a John Blake or a John Thompson.
The 9th were moved to the Ypres salient on April 1st 1918 and moved to Dranoute on the 14th.
" Next day D and A companies were in front line, C in support and B in reserve. Arrangements had been made for C to counter attack if necessary but it's losses owing to the continuous heavy bombardment commencing at noon on the 15th necessitated B taking it's place as the counter attack force. At 2.30pm on the 15th the enemy advanced and by 3pm had gained a foothold in the front trenches. From these he was once again driven out by B company. Although B held the line and formed a defensive flank they were eventually themselves driven out due to their exposed position.
Line was then formed along the railway with the Ist Leicesters on their left at Clapham Junction. At 10.30pm they were moved back behind Mt Kemmel before being pulled out of line on the 18th.
This was after the 9th had been badly cut up a month before holding the masive German onslaught of the 21st March. Here they had fought a strong rearguard action before being moved out of line to for a refit in Sixte near Proven on the 26th.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t...
John Debbage………………….Aged 21
Probably
Name: DEBBAGE, JOHN PRINDLE Initials: J P Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn. Date of Death: 13/08/1915 Service No: 20655 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233. Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=682649
Norlink has a picture of John Pringle Debbage, but links him elsewhere in Norfolk.
norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...
The Norlink notes read:-
Private Debbage of Bramerton, was born at Paxworth, 7th January 1893. He waseducated at Cantley School. He enlisted on 4th January 1915 and was drowned on H.M.S. Royal Edward, 13th August 1915
The John Debbage on the CWGC database and Norlink was 8 years old and living at Marsh Road, Cantley on the 1901 Census. This was the household of his parents, Henry, (aged 42 and a Teamster on Farm, originally from Panxworth), and Jane, (aged 42 and from London). There other children are Walter, (aged 12 and from Ranworth), and Frederick, (aged 3, born Cantley).
The 1901 Census does have a John Debbage age 53, born Ranworth, but now living at Buckenham Road, Strumpshaw. While John is a family man, none of his children have the first name John or Pringle.
A passage from the History of Norfolk Regiment tells the rest of Teddie's story: Colonel Tonge refers to the loss of 300 men, the best draft that ever left Felixstowe. These men volunteered to join the Essex Regiment and appear to have constituted the drafts of June 23 and July 24 1915. They were part of the reinforcements carried by the transport "Royal Edward" which was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea on August 14th 1915. She sank two and a half minutes after the torpedo struck her.Of the 1,400 men she carried only 600 were saved,and the drowned included all but 18 of the 300 Norfolk men. The men who had had a route march just before leaving Alexandria, were waiting on deck for foot inspection at about 9.20 am. Their lifebelts were down below, and when the ship was unexpectedly struck most of them ran below to fetch the belts. Owing to the ship's sudden heeling over and sinking, these never got up again. Those who escaped were picked up by a hospital ship which responded to the s.o.s. signal. To partly replace this sad loss, another draft of 150 men to the Essex Regiment was dispatched on September 29, 1915. Addenda 1994 From: "Men of Gallipoli"(David & Charles,1988) by kind permission of the publishers. One of the features of the Cape Helles monument is the rows of names of men drowned in the torpedoing of the Royal Edward,which sank in the Eastern Mediterranean on 13th August with a loss of over 850 lives.A.T.Fraser in the Border Regiment,was in a deckchair on the afterdeck starboard side when suddenly dozens of men ran past him from port to starboard. The explosion came before he had time to ask what was the matter.
"The ship had no escort and we had not been ordered to have our life-belts with us.The hundreds on deck ran below to get their life-belts and hundreds below would have met them on their way up.I shared a cabin accessible from the deck I was on and I raced there to get my life-belt and ran to my life-boat station which was on the star- board side.As the men arrived they fell in two ranks. Already the ship was listing and this prevented our boats from being lowered,so we were ordered to jump for it.I saw no panic,but of course one could imagine what was happening on the inside stairs. I swam away from the ship and turned to see the funnels leaning towards me.When they reached the sea,all the soot was belched out,there was a loud whoosh and the ship sank. No explosion,no surge.So I was alone.The little waves were such that in the trough you saw nothing,on the crest you saw a few yards.The water was warm.I wondered if there were sharks". Fraser found some wood to rest on and he was joined by a seaman,an older man who had twice previously been torpedoed.This brought the young Scot confidence.An up turned Royal Edward lifeboat was to provide 17 of the survivors with a little more security though in what Fraser calls half-hourly recurring turbulence,the boat turned over,offering them conventional but completely waterlogged accommodation every alternate half hour but at least providing them with something to do.There was no singing and little conversation. The first ship that passed hailed the scattered men and promised to signal for help.It could not stop as it had high explosives for Lemnos.Some of the men became depressed and showed unwillingness to clamber back in the life boat when it overturned,but on each occasion all were persuaded.Finally the hospital ship SOUDAIN arrived to pick them up in her life-boats,and at 2 o'clock Fraser was safely aboard her after just under five hours in the sea. He remembers that"a large number of men lost their false teeth as we were constantly sick in the sea- and these men were sent back to England.We the younger ones,were clothed and kitted and on another ship three days later for Gallipoli”
www.geocities.com/heartland/acres/5564/royaledward.html
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=54871
Sidney John Green…………………Aged 20
Name: GREEN, SYDNEY JOHN
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Hertfordshire Regiment Unit Text: 1st/1st Bn.
Age: 20 Date of Death: 23/08/1918 Service No: 204000
Additional information: Son of John and Alice Green, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. G. 16. Cemetery: SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=608785
No match on Norlink
Sydney Green was 2 years old and living at The Old Hall Strumpshaw, at the time of the 1901 Census. This was the household of his parents, John, (a 40 year old Domestic Gardener, from Necton), and Alice, (aged 39 and from Old Catton). Their other children are Dorothy, (aged 4) and Hilda, (aged 11), both born Strumpshaw. Also living with them are Alice’s mother Rachel Harrowven, aged 74 and from Easton.
Extract from the Battalion War Diary.
22-8-18. Battn resting in BRADFORD-LEEDS-HALIFAX trenches. Moved up to assembly positions S. of LOGEAST WOOD at 11pm.
23-8-18. Battn attacked at 11am. Attack successful. Railway cutting in front of ACHIET-LE-GRAND taken. Casualties – Captain S.W. [Saxon Weston] MOORE & 2/Lt F. SMITH [Frederick John SMITH, 5th Bedfordshire regiment attached to the 1st Hertfordshire] killed 7 Officers wounded. O. Ranks 26 killed 140 wounded.
24-8-18. Battn moved to position SE of BIHUCOURT.
25-8-18 to 31-8-18. Battn in Divisional Reserve in shelters SE of BIHUCOURT.
[Comment; Officers also killed – Lt George ABBOTT and Ronald Henry Pruess ARNHOLTZ on the 23rd August and 2/Lt Laurence REEVES died from his wounds on the 25th]
www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/hertsrgt/1stherts1918diary.html
William John Harrison……………..Aged 20
Up to 18 potential matches on the CWGC database
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has a 5 year old William John living at The Post Office, Strumpshaw. This was the household of his parents, William, (aged 34 and Sub Postmaster, Grocer and Pork Butcher) and Mina, (aged 31 and from Blofield). Their other children are Alfred James, (aged 4), Eleanor Maria, (aged 11), Gladys May, (aged 9), Grace Maud, (aged 8), Mary Elizabeth, (aged 1), and Stella Louise, (aged 2).
Arthur Robert Howes………………..Aged 19
Name: HOWES, ARTHUR ROBERT
Rank: Private Regiment Royal Warwickshire Regiment Unit Text: "B" Coy. 1st/7th Bn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 08/10/1917 Service No: 29255
Additional information: Son of Robert William and Clara Howes, of Strumpshaw, Norwich.
Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 23 to 28 and 163A. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=837457
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 2 year old Arthur Howes living at Blofied Road, Lingwood. This is the household of his widowed grandfather Samuel Hinds, (aged 55 and a farmer). Living with them are Arthur parents, Roberts Howes, (age 32 and a Traction Engine Driver from Beighton) and Clara, (aged 28 and from Lingwood). Arthur’s siblings are Esther, (aged 1, born Moulton), and Samuel, (aged 5 and born Moulton).
Sunday 7th October 1917 - Day 63 Third Ypres (Passchendaele)
Rainfall 10.4mm
Poelcappelle
49th Div
Patrols raided in Celtic Wood
48th Div
143 Bde
An attack on Burns House and Vacher Farm failed.
forum.irishmilitaryonline.com/showthread.php?t=11535&...
(7th Royal Warwicks were part of the 143rd Brigade)
Robert George Hylton………………..Aged 33
Name: HYLTON, ROBERT GEORGE Initials: R G Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 2nd Bn. Date of Death: 31/03/1916 Service No: 19095 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 10. Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=866274
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Cenus has the 18 year old Robert, born Strumpshaw but now living at Postwick Lane, Brundall and employed as an Agricultural Labourer. This is the household of his parents, George, (aged 58, also from Strumpshaw and an Agricultural Labourer) and Sophia, (aged 60 and from Strumpshaw).
The Brigade arrives at Kut
On 5 December 1915, The Brigade arrives at Kut. The Turks are reinforced in great numbers and surround the town. They positions on the other side of the river and cut the garrison off from help from outside.
The Siege of Kut
During the siege of Kut which lasted for 5 months aircraft were first used to try and drop supplies to the garrison. The aircraft could not carry enough supplies some were shot down and the attempt ended in failure. The Turks used aircraft more successfully in bombing the town, many troops having been wounded were then killed in hospital by an air raid. Several attempts were made to break out across the river on floating bridges, but as the river was in flood at this time of the year the attempts failed. Radio contact with the outside world was kept up until the end.
Towards the end of the siege the daily ration for British troops was reduced to ten ounces of bread and one pound of horse or mule flesh. Indian troops who refused to eat flesh were dying of scurvy at the rate of 10 to 20 a day. In all 1746 people died during the siege from wounds or disease.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/pte_wilby.htm
Robert Killington……………………..Aged 35
Name: KILLINGTON, ROBERT ALBERT
Rank: Serjeant Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps Secondary Unit Text: attd. 7th Mounted Bde.H.Q.
Age: 36 Date of Death: 24/06/1917 Service No: MT/16956
Additional information: Son of Rosa Killington, of Lingwood, Norwich; husband of Gertrude Louisa Killington, of 61, Queensmill Rd., Fulham Palace Rd., London.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. B. 4. Cemetery: LAHANA MILITARY CEMETE
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=333926
No match on Norlink
Lahana Military Cemetery lies 1 kilometre west of the village of Lachanas on the old Thessaloniki-Seres road, about 56 kilometres north-east of Thessaloniki, Greece.The cemetery was begun in July 1916 for burials from the 27th Casualty Clearing Station, to which sick and wounded men were brought from the Struma front. The cemetery was also used from June to August 1917 by the 18th Stationary Hospital.
After the Armistice, 41 of the graves in Plots II and III were brought in from the two front line cemeteries at Paprat (about 12 km north-west of Lahana) and from other small burial grounds.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=35001&...
The 1901 Census has a Robert Killington who is a Driver in the Army Service Corps. Robert is aged 18 and from St Helens, Lancashire. Presumably his unit were on manoeuvres, as they are prosaically listed as being “South of the Canal”
Ernest Rose…………………………Aged 19
No obvious match on the CWGC database
There is a 3 year old Ernest Rose on the 1901 census, born Strumpshaw but now living at Church Street, Blofield. This is the household of his parents, William I, (aged 26 and a General Farm Labourer from Hassingham), and Jessie, (aged 24 and from Strumpshaw). Living with them are daughter Eleanor E, (aged 2 and born Brundall) and Williams widowed mother, Eleanor, (aged 66 and from Poringland, now living on Parish Poor Relief).
William Thompson…………………..Aged 32
Name: THOMPSON, WILLIAM
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 32 Date of Death: 14/04/1917 Service No: 41590
Additional information: Son of George and Elizabeth Thompson, of The Loake, Strumpshaw, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 7. Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=777358
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census has the 15 year old William living two doors down from The Rectory at Strumpshaw, and four doors from the “Shoulder of Mutton” Public House. Strumpshaw is his birth village, and he is employed as a General Agricultural Labourer. This is the household of his parents, George, (aged 49 and a General Agricultural Labourer), and Elizabeth, (aged 52). Their other children are:
Ernest………………..aged under 1
George Robert…..aged 18 and a General Agricultural Labourer
Henry…………………aged 22 and a General Agricultural Labourer
Louisa………………..aged 10
Mary…………………..aged 13
Robert………………..aged under 1
Ruth Leah…………..aged 5
Thu., Apr 12, 1917
The Bn. marched from billets at FOSSEUX to ARRAS (abt 10 miles) and on arrival was at once ordered to proceed with the remainder of the 88th Bde to relieve the 37th Bde near MONCHY-LE-PREUX. The Bn arrived at ARRAS at 3pm and left to carry out the relief 4 miles off at 6.30pm. Owing to intense congestion on the road and other delays the relief was not completed until 3am on 13th.
Prior to leaving ARRAS orders had been issued for an attack on the German line in company with the 1st NFLD to be made on the 13th at an hour to be notified later.
The attack was to be made from an Assembly trench which was to be dug on the night of the 12/13 by 2nd Hants, 4th Worcs were in support to the attack.
Owing to the late hour at which the Brigade relief was completed & consequent impossibility of making adequate preparation for the attack the operation was postponed.
At daylight therefore on the 13th the Brigade was situated as shown in the attached map.
At 11am orders were received to make the attack at 2pm. These orders also were cancelled a few minutes before Zero.
During the night 13/14 the 2nd Hants dug the required assembly trench and operation orders were issued to the Bn. by Lt. Col. Halaham. App. B.
At 5.30am on 14th the barrage fell and the battalion left the trench & carried out the assault.
In spite of a certain weakness of the barrage the objective was gained and by 6.30am all companies had reported that they were busy digging in.
In the mean time "X" Coy detailed to form a flank guard to the thence attacking Coys had at once come in contact with the enemy.
Therefore acting under Capt. Foster's orders No. 5 Platoon got into shell holes at about 0 1b 8.1 and opened fire. No. 8 Platoon being checked by machine gun fire from ARROW COPSE No 7 was directed to outflank this copse with the result that No 8 could again get forward , capturing the 2 machine guns & driving the enemy out of the copse. The small wood at O 2a 7.5 was also in hostile occupation but was cleared by Lewis Guns & Rifle Grenades. The Company then moved forward to the N. end of the copses where all platoons came under fire from a line of hidden machine guns. The company now began to form the chain of strong points as detailed in operation orders.
From this point no further definitive news could be gathered as to the fate of this company. A few men eventually rejoined the battalion & from their statements it is certain that all Platoons their proper positions where they were at once attacked by very superior German forces & were finally overwhelmed in these positions at a time between 6.30 and 7.30 am.
The main attack by the remaining 3 Coys having reached their objective by 6.30 am started to dig in and reports were sent back to Bn. Hqrs that large forces of the enemy could be seen in the BOIS du SART & the BOIS des AUBE PINES and that all covering parties were sent forward were at once coming under heavy machine gun & rifle fire.
It became apparent rapidly to the Coy commanders that an immediate counter attack was being prepared and this also was reported to Bn. Hqrs. These reports were confirmed by two Coy commanders in person returning wounded from the main attack. [Capt Tomlinson Capt Caroline]
Steps had already been taken to get the Artillery on to the points where the enemy was reported to be massing but owing to the destruction of the wires by shell fire it was an hour before the guns opened fire.
By 7.30am the counter attack had fully developed in all its strength of at least 9 battalions. The weight of the attack seams to have come from the N. East & thus fell on "X" Coy. This Coy in spite of a stout resistance was gradually overwhelmed. Vide app. C.
From 7.30 onwards no reports, messages or wounded men arrived at Bn Hqrs or the Aid Post it is therefore apparent that "X" Coy having been overrun the hostile forces got between MONCHY & the attacking Companies of the Essex & NLFD. No men have returned from these Companies.
As soon as it became clear that MONCHY itself was being attacked patrols were put out from Hqr party to hold street barricades in MONCHY. No German succeeded in entering MONCHY. It must be remembered that during all this time the town was under an intense enemy barrage thus rendering it almost impossible to reinforce or support the two Battalions & making the work of the respective Hqrs parties extremely arduous.
Except for a certain amount of support from the 4th Worcester & 2dn Hants they fought on alone & these two battalions broke up a German attack designed not to drive them back but to retake MONCHY itself.
Appendix C. contains a copy of the Special Order issued by the G.O.C. 88th Bde.
Of the Officers who went into action the following is killed : 2/Lt. L. Cousins.
The following are wounded :- Capts R.E.G. Caroline, J. Tomlinson, Lieuts ?.W.J. Taylor
R. Eastwood. 2/Lt's H. Ockendon, S. ?. Andrew, F.W. Barker.
The following are missing :- Capt H.J.B. Foster, Lt C.R. Brown, 2/Lts A.L. Piper, S.N.R. Eyre, C.H. Feline H.R. Newth, P.W. Coombs, L.F. Portway; G.W. Turk.
Total casualties 17 officers & 644 OR. out of a strength of 31 officers & 892 O.R.
Sun., Apr 15, 1917
The remnants of the Battalion were now withdrawn & went to billets in ARRAS.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=594...
This horrendous battle cost the 1st Battalion a vast number of casualties, 17 officers and 644 other ranks were either killed, wounded or went missing. Later it was established that 203 soldiers were made prisoners of war, most of them were wounded and 16 of them died in captivity in Germany.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...8&hl=monchy
Stephen Frederick Tunmore………………Aged 23
Name: TUNMORE, STEPHEN FREDERICK
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: East Surrey Regiment Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 23 Date of Death: 03/05/1917 Service No: 5120
Additional information: Son of Stephen and Sarah A. Tunmore, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk. Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 6. Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=778025
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census lists a 7 year old “Frederick” Tunmore, living at Workhouse Road, Lingwood. This is the household of his parents Stephen, (aged 39 and a Engine Driver Stationary, from Norwich), and Sarah, (aged 31 and from Strumpshaw) Their other children are Laura, (aged 10) and William (aged 4).
William would also lose his life in the war - see next entry.
Stephen was born the 22nd February 1894
familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Vanessa-J-Walle...
The Division of which the 8th Surreys were part was engaged in the very costly Third Battle of the Scarpe on this day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_(1917)
William Tunmore……………………Aged 20
Name: TUNMORE, WILLIAM
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: East Surrey Regiment Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 20 Date of Death: 10/08/1917 Service No: 5100
Additional information: Son of Stephen and Sarah A. Tunmore, of Strumpshaw, Norwich.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. E. 6. Cemetery: HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=459516
No match on Norlink
The 1901 Census lists a 4 year old William Tunmore, living at Workhouse Road, Lingwood. This is the household of his parents Stephen, (aged 39 and a Engine Driver Stationary, from Norwich), and Sarah, (aged 31 and from Strumpshaw) Their other children are Laura, (aged 10) and Frederick (aged 7).
Frederick would also lose his life in the war - see previous entry.
William was born 30th September 1896
familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Vanessa-J-Walle...
"On 1st August the 8th Battalion East Surreys assembled in the New Dickbusch area. The afternoon of the previous day had seen the start of four days incessant rain which rendereed impossible any further offensive until a period of fine weather might allow the waterlooged soil to recover. Under these conditions the men were crowded into a few tents and shelters at New Dickbusch and had a very uncomfortable time. At midnight on the 3rd August their relief by the 7th Battalion was started but, because of the flooding, this entailed a long and tiring march by road and it was 10am before it was completed. Two companies were placed in Jam Trench, the old German front line and the remaining two companies in Crab Crawl Tunnel which was in a very bad state with six inches of water in it. The Germans maintained a very heavy barrage over the next few days. The 7th Bn Queens launched an attack on Inverness Copse, which had been postponed owing to heavy rain, at 4.35am on 10th August supported by 8th East Surreys. Casualties were heavy from very heavy shell fire and one officer and thirty eight other ranks were killed. One of those was 5100 Private William TUNMORE, aged 20 years."
He and his colleagues are buried at Hooge Cemetery.
1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=95fc527f42d...
John Lambert Ward……………….Aged 25
No obvious match on the CWGC database for J.L. J or L Ward
No match on Norlink
The most likely match on the 1901 Census is a 10 year old John L Ward living at Blofield Road, Lingwood, the village of his birth. This is the household of his parents, Lambert W, (age 48 and an Ordinary Farm Labourer from Lingwood), and Frances, (aged 47 and from the same village). Their other children are Arthur W, (aged 12), Edith L. (aged 8), George R, (aged 17 and also a Farm Labourer), and Russell J, (aged 5).
Robert Wilson……………………Aged 41
Most Likely match
Name: WILSON, ROBERT
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 40 Date of Death: 29/10/1914 Service No: 5173
Additional information: Son of the late John and Hannah Wilson.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 8. Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1564179
No match on Norlink
No obvious match on the 1901 Census, but given his age and date of death, it is likely that Robert was a professional soldier in Britains Pre-War army, and could well have been serving overseas in 1901.
On the 1891 Census there is a 17 year old Robert living at 6, The Alley, Blofield and employed as a Bricklayers Labourer. This was the household of his widowed Grandmother, Sarah Ann Wilson, a 66 year old Washerwoman and Domestic Servant. Sarah has another one of her grandchildren, a 21 year old George Carter who is also a Bricklayers Labourer, living with her. All were born at Blofield.
Battle of La Basse 10th October 1914 - 2nd November 1914.(Part of the Race to the Sea)
The German attack was renewed on 24 October along the entire Sixth Army front. A daylight attack failed to make any headway. It was followed by an attack at dusk, which did break into the British trenches at two places, but local counterattacks restored the situation.
A second night attack, on 26/27 October, caused more problems. Part of the British line was broken, and the village of Neuve Chapelle captured. This created a shallow salient in the British line. At this early period in the war the buildings of Neuve Chapelle still survived, making the village a dangerous strong point that threatened the British lines. A major counter attack was launched on 28 October, but failed to retake the village. On 29 October the village was reported to have been evacuated, but later in the day German troops used the ruins as cover for their last major attack of the battle.
After the failure of the attack on 29 October, the Germans moved much of their heavy artillery north towards Ypres, where it took part in the battle of Gheluvelt.
www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_la_bassee.html
www.roll-of-honour.com/Regiments/NorfolkRegimentLeTouret....
Athur Conan Doyle, in his “The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914” tells us that starting from the 25th, the 1st Norfolks and 1st Devons were tasked with holding the salient of the village of Givenchy, and they defied all efforts to dislodge them.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=a2PKHfRXFBYC&pg=PA219&...
WW2
George Arthur Ashley…………………….Aged 24
Name: ASHLEY, GEORGE ARTHUR
Rank: Driver Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers Unit Text: 251 Field Park Coy.
Age: 24 Date of Death: 02/09/1943 Service No: 2078641
Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. F. 9. Cemetery: CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2352436
The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar). Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma, worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre. The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943. The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar. Chungkai was one of the base camps on the railway and contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. The war cemetery is the original burial ground started by the prisoners themselves, and the burials are mostly of men who died at the hospital.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=203500...
Horace George Forder………………Aged 38
Name: FORDER, HORACE GEORGE
Rank: Gunner
Regiment: Royal Artillery Unit Text: 65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt
Age: 38 Date of Death: 22/02/1943 Service No: 1122622
Additional information: Son of Horace George and Sarah Harriet Forder; husband of Olive Annie Forder, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 22. Cemetery: SFAX WAR CEMETERY
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2182766
In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the Axis powers by a combined Allied force. In the south, the Axis forces defeated in Egypt at El Alamein withdrew into Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. Most of those buried in Sfax War Cemetery died in attacks on successive Axis positions at Medenine, the Marith Line and Wadi Akarit, in March and April 1943.
www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=47312&...
Harold William High……………………Aged 27
Name: HIGH, HAROLD WILLIAM STRUTHERS
Rank: Private Regiment: Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Unit Text: 5th Bn. Age: 27 Date of Death: 21/09/1944 Service No: 5951830
Additional information: Son of Beatrice Minnie High, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 63. Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2133641
The 5th Bedfords and Herts were another unit from the ill-fated 18th Division, arriving piece arriving piecemeal late in the Malayan campaign and finally being surrendered on mass with the Fall of Singapore. See the note under George Ashley for their subsequent treatment.
Alfred Waterton………………………….Aged 29
Name: WATERTON, ALFRED
Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 29 Date of Death: 24/05/1940 Service No: 5770748
Additional information: Son of Albert and Ada Waterton, of Strumpshaw, Norfolk. Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 44. Memorial: DUNKIRK MEMORIAL
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2767796
The retreat to Dunkirk
The period in which Alfred Waterton died (24th May 1940) was one in which the 2nd battalion, along with a number of other units, was sacrificed in order the for the British Expeditionary Force to retreat to the channel. Shortly afterwards, on the 27th came the surrender of the 2nd Battalion and the subsequent massacre at Le Paradis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Paradis_massacre
www.norfolkbc.fsnet.co.uk/archive_collection/strips_farro...
On the 24th the 2nd Battalion, along with what was left of 4th Brigade, took over the defense of a 21 mile stretch of the canal line running from the railway bridge south of Aire to La Basee. They arrived at Locon, but scouting patrols looking for accomodation and defensive positions came under fire from Germans who had already crossed the canal. Units advanced as night fell aiming to push the Germans back over the canal. Sleep deprived from days in combat, and with only one map between the entire HQ staff, troops became lost and dis-orientated.
(see page 281, Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore)
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
The origins of the Turbo Fury reach back to 1943, when the piston-driven Hawker Sea Fury's development was formally initiated in response to a wartime requirement of the RAF.
As the Second World War drew to a close, the RAF cancelled their order for the aircraft. However, the Royal Navy saw the type as a suitable carrier aircraft to replace a range of increasingly obsolete or poorly suited aircraft being operated by the Fleet Air Arm. Development of the Sea Fury proceeded, and the type began entering operational service in 1947.
The Sea Fury had many design similarities to Hawker's preceding Tempest fighter, but the Sea Fury was a considerably lighter aircraft. Both the Sea Fury's wings and fuselage originated from the Tempest but were significantly modified and redesigned.
The Sea Fury attracted international orders as both a carrier and land-based aircraft; it was operated by countries including Australia, Burma, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, West Germany, Iraq, and Pakistan. The Sea Fury was retired by the majority of its military operators in the late 1950s in favour of jet-propelled aircraft. One of the largest export customers for the type, Pakistan, went a different way.
A total of 87 new-build Sea Furies were purchased and delivered to Pakistan between 1950 and 1952, but some ex-FAA and Iraqi Sea Furies were also subsequently purchased.
The Sea Fury began to be replaced by the jet-powered North American F-86 Sabre in 1955, but it became quickly clear that the Sabre was primarily a fighter, not a ground attack aircraft. It also lacked adequate performance in 'hot and high' operation theatres, and the PAF's B-57 bombers were too big for certain CAS tasks, and their number highly limited.
Hence the decision was taken to modernize a part of the PAF Sea Fury fleet for the ground attack role. This was to be achieved with a better engine that would deliver more power, a better overall performance as well as an extended range for prolonged loiter times close to the potential battlefield.
Engine choice fell on the Allison T56 turboshaft engine, which had originally been developed for the C-130 Hercules transporter (later also installed in the P-3 and E-2) - the type had just been bought by the PAF, so that low maintenance cost due to parts and infrastructure commonality was expected. Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (commonly abbreviated 'PAC') was tasked to develop a suitable update, and this lead to the integration of a turboprop engine into the Sea Fury airframe.
For the relatively small Sea Fury airframe the T56 was downrated to 3.000 hp, to which approximately 750 lbs of thrust from its exhaust could be added. The latter was bifurcated and ran along the fuselage flanks, ending in fairings at the wings' trailing edge. In order to cope with the additional power, the original five-bladed propeller had to be replaced by a six-bladed, indigenously developed propeller. Together with the more pointed spinner and the raised propeller position, the Sea Fury's profile changed dramatically, even though the good field of view for the pilot was retained. Officially, the modified machines were just called 'Sea Fury FB.61', inofficially they were called 'Turbo Furies' or 'وایلار' (Urdu: Wailer), for their characteristic, penetrating engine and propeller sound.
Internally, structural reinforcements had to be made and new wing spars were introduced. These allowed higher g forces for low level maneuvers and also carried additional ordnance hardpoints under the outer wings - these enabled the aircraft to carry HVARs of American origin and/or several small caliber bombs instead of only a single pair of up to 1.000 lb (454 kg) caliber.
The last piston engine Sea Furies in Pakistani service were ultimately retired in 1960, while the Turbo Fury fleet was used throughout the 1965 India-Pakistan War. After the end of hostilities, the 'Turbo Furies' were quickly phased out since it had become clear that they had become too vulnerable in battlefield conditions.
Some of these machines were sold to Thailand, though, where it served with the Royal Thai Marine Corps (นาวิกโยธินแห่งราชอาณาจักรไทย) in the CAS role and saw frequent use: The Chanthaburi and Trat borders with Cambodia gave the Marine Corps Department its first assignment, safeguarding the coastline and southeastern border. Since 1970 the Marine Corps' Chanthaburi-Trat Task Force had been officially assigned the defense of this area.
During 1972 and 1973, Thai Marines were involved in the "Sam-Chai" anti-communist operations in Phetchabun Province and the "Pha-Phum" anti-communist operations in Chiang Rai Province. In 1973 and 1974, they took part in anti-communist operations in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. After ten years of frequent and successful use, the end of the Thai TurBo Furies came - the type was retired in late 1975. Two specimen were sold into the USA to Flight Systems Inc., where the machines were de-militarized and modified to be used as fast low-level target tugs.
Still, the aircraft would see a late career for the USAF, even though only an indirect one - and ironically against another WWII veteran reincarnation! In 1971 Piper Aircraft Corp. at Lakeland, Florida, built for the USAF's PAVE COIN programm (calling for a simple aircraft tailored to the ground attack role for small armies) two Piper Enforcers by heavily modifying two existing P-51 Mustang aircraft and fitting them with Lycoming T55-L9A turboprop engines, along with numerous other significant modifications.
Prior to the PAVE COIN evaluation, N202PE was lost in a crash off the Florida Coast. Although the Enforcer performed well in PAVE COIN, Piper failed to secure a United States Air Force contract. Anyway, Piper kept on lobbying Congress for another 8 years to force the USAF to officially re-evaluate the Enforcer.
Eventually in the 1979 defense bill $11.9 million was allocated for Piper to build two new prototypes and for the USAF to perform another flight evaluation. Since the Enforcer was never in the Air Force inventory, it was not given an official military designation and did not receive an Air Force serial number. Instead, it carries the Piper designation PA-48 and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration numbers N481PE and N482PE.
During 1983 and 1984 the PA-48s were pitted against several "modern" jets at 1984 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida and Edwards Air Force Base, California. Beyond 'state of the art' competirion, the USAF wanted a direct competitor - and found Flight Systems Inc's Turbo Furies. One of these, aircraft N287FS, was leased in 1981 and revamped to military status in order to act as a further benchnmark and as aggressor.
By the time the machine had already undergone some major modifications, including an ejection seat for the pilot and a new five-bladed propeller plus exhaust dampers in order to minimize the machine's distinctive, penetrating noise.
Further modifications saw the re-installment of armament, including wing hardpoints and the respective wiring, as well as adding four 20mm cannon, this time domestic Pontiac M39A1 revolver cannon - easily recognizable through the longer gun barrels that protruded from the wings' leading edge.
During the two years of evaluation the revamped Turbo Fury fared well, while its sister ship remained in the target tug role - and it was the only machine to survive, since N287FS crashed on 8th of August 1984 at Eglin AB due to hydraulic failure, with the pilot escaping securely thanks to the new ejection seat.
General characteristics
Crew: One
Length: 36 ft 2 in (11.05 m)
Wingspan: 38 ft 43⁄4 in (11.69 m)
Height: 15 ft 101⁄2 in (4.84 m)
Wing area: 280 ft2 (26.01 m2)
Empty weight: 10.500 lb (4.767 kg)
Loaded weight: 14,100 lb (6.400 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 15,650 lb (7.105 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Allison T56 turboshaft engine rated at 2.206 kW (3.000 hp) plus 750 lbs of residual thrust
Performance:
Maximum speed: 490 mph (427 knots, 790 km/h) at 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
Range: 700 mi (609 nmi, 1,126 km) with internal fuel;
1,040 mi (904 nmi, 1,674 km) with two drop tanks
Service ceiling: 35,800 ft (10,910 m)
Rate of climb: 4,320 ft/min (21.9 m/s)
Armament:
4× 20 mm (0.787 in) Pontiac M39A1 revolver cannon
Eight underwing hardpoints for an external load of 4.000 lb (1.814 kg),
including bombs, unguided rockets, napalm tanks or drop tanks
The kit and its assembly:
Turbo Fury V3.0, spinning forth the initial fictional background story of this whif conversion. The combination of a WWII figher design and a C-130 Hercules sounds unlikely, but that's what I built. The idea of revamped piston-engine aircraft for a post-WWII-use has its charm and continually brings forth impressive designs, like the real world Piper PA-48.
Inspiration came with a set of 1:72 aftermarket C-130J resin engine nacelles from OzMods, which I had bunkered a while ago. This time the engine was mated again to the single seater kit from Pioneer2/PM Models. The Hercules engines are an almost perfect fit - the original fuselage just had to be cut away behind the original exhaust reflectors. Some sculpting had to be done on both sides, and the wing roots filled up in order to match the new, more narrow engine, but things went really smoothly.
This time, the Turbo Fury was to have a more modern touch - we are in the 80ies now. So I decided to use the original C-130 sickle blades that come with the OzMods conversion kit, even though I only used five of them instead of six (the spinner was modified accordingly). Another idea was to conceal the original exhaust pipes under the cockpit - I scratched dampers with intakes that would muffle engine sound and mix the hot gases with fresh air. These break up the sleek lines of the Fury, but I think that this installation makes sense, also as a potential survival measure that reduces the aircraft's IR signature?
Otherwise, only little things were changed. In the cockpit a new seat and a dashboard cover were added. The underwing hardpoints were new, too, and I added some antennae for a more modern and purposeful look. All pylons are new, and the bomb ordnance was puzzled together from the spares box, including four Rockeye CBUs from an Italeri F-16, an camera pod (from an Italeri F-18, IIRC) and a single ACMI pod from an Italeri F-21.
Painting and markings:
Piper's PA-48 was a bit of inspiration for this build, and I wanted the final Turbo Fury to be an American aircraft. USAF use would have been unlikely, though, but a private operator like Flight Systems Inc. (Which also operated F-86 as target tugs!) opened a new opportunity, as well as the historic trials of the PA-48 in the early 80ies.
Well, how to paint the Turbo Fury? An early idea had been a simple, all Gunship Grey aircraft with low-viz markings, but I eventually settled for the contemporary "USMC Land Scheme", applied to helicopters (AH-1, CH-46) and some of the USMC's OA-10. On a classic airframe like the Sea Fury's it would look totally anachronistic - but for an aggressor and test aircraft? Why not?
This wraparound scheme consists of grey, green and black - I used FS 35237 (Humbrol 145), FS 34097 (Humbrol 105) and FS 37038 (Humbrol 85, slightly lightened with some Humbrol 32 Dark Grey). The cockpit interior was kept in dark gray, the landing gear is in Aluminum, just like on the former builds of this series.
As per usual the kit received a light black ink wash and some dry painting that emphasizes the panel lines.
Decals were puzzled together from the scrap box, with some typical US markings and modern stencils.
Even though the paint finish turned out to look a bit more worn than initially intended, I am very happy with the result of this "Final Turbo Fury", esp. with its modern details. It looks rather odd and purposeful! And there's still one Hercules engine left... maybe a forth Turbo Fury might come forth, in the hands of another obscure operator's hands. ;)