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Met twee weken vakantie thuis, omdat de plannen voor Oostenrijk al waren gecanceld vanwege het slechte weer in die hoek, hadden we de hoop op nog een enkele dag redelijk weer in Nederland, maar het wil niet echt met het weer op de plekken waar we nog heen wilden. Gisteren zou het dan een fraaie dag moeten worden en was de Angertalbahn onze bestemming, maar de bewolking zat in de voorspelling al dichtbij en bleek - uiteraard - net te dichtbij te komen.

 

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During the campaign, President Obama argued that his election would help restore the image the rest of the world has of United States.

 

In the six months since his election, his approval ratings at home have slipped, though they remain high. Around the rest of the world, opinion is mixed. A recent study by WorldPublicOpinion.org asked people in 21 countries whether they had confidence that Obama would “do the right thing” when it came to world affairs. Our latest Transparency is a look at their responses.

 

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Edward Gleadall Uphill Robson was born in 1882, the son of Thomas and Ann Dean Uphill Robson. The family lived in Uphill House on Finchley New Road, Hampstead.

He was educated at Malvern College from 1896 - 1901, where he excelled at sport. He went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1901, where he was in the college football XI in 1903 and was captain in 1904. In 1903 he took part in a college athletics event in which he was entered for the 2 miles handicap. He graduated from Clare in 1904

In 1911 he was a tutor in Norfolk, living at Home Place, Cromer Road, Kelling. In 1913 he obtained a MA at Clare. He then trained for the priesthood at Leeds and was made a Deacon in 1912. In 1913 he was ordained a priest by the Bishop of St. Albans. He served as curate at the Malvern College Mission, Worcestershire from 1912-14, Canning Town, East London and then at Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

During the First World War Edward was a Royal Navy Chaplain aboard HMS Aboukir.

HMS Aboukir was a Cressy class armoured cruiser, launched on 16th. May 1900. Upon completion she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and spent most of her career there. Upon returning home in 1912, she was placed in reserve. Recommissioned at the start of the First World War, she was assigned to the 7th. Cruiser Squadron. The squadron was tasked with patrolling the 'Broad Fourteens', an area of the North Sea, in support of a force of destroyers and submarines based at Harwich in Essex which protected the eastern end of the English Channel from German warships attempting to attack the supply route between England and France. During the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28th. August, the ship was part of Cruiser Force 'C', in reserve off the Dutch coast and saw no action.

On the morning of 22nd. September 1914, Aboukir and her sister ships, Cressy and Hogue, were on patrol without any escorting destroyers as they had been forced to seek shelter from bad weather. A forth ship, Euryalus had to return to port due to lack of coal and weather damage to her wireless. A fifth ship, Bacchante never sailed and remaining in port. The three sisters were in line abreast, about 2,000 yards (1,800 m) apart and at a speed of 10 knots (12 mph - 19 km/h). They were not expecting a submarine attack and were not zigzagging but they had lookouts posted and had one gun manned on each side to attack any submarines if sighted. The weather had moderated earlier that morning and Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, commander of the Harwich Force, was en route to reinforce the cruisers with eight destroyers.

The submarine U-9, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigen, had been ordered to attack British transports at Ostend, Belgium but had been forced to dive and take shelter from the storm. On surfacing, she spotted the British ships off the Hook of Holland and moved to attack. U-9 fired one torpedo at 06:20 at Aboukir that struck her on the port side. Captain John Drummond thought he had struck a mine and ordered the other two ships to close to transfer his wounded men. Aboukir quickly began listing and capsized around 06:55 despite counterflooding compartments on the opposite side to right her. By the time that Drummond ordered 'abandon ship' only one boat was available because the others had either been smashed or could not be lowered as no steam was available to power the winches for the boats.

As Hogue approached her sinking sister, the ship's captain, Wilmot Nicholson, realized that it had been a submarine attack and signalled Cressy to look for a periscope. His ship continued to close on Aboukir as his crew threw overboard anything that would float to aid the survivors in the water. Having stopped and lowered all her boats, Hogue was struck by two torpedoes around 06:55. The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused U-9 to broach the surface and Hogue's gunners opened fire without effect before the submarine could submerge again. Hogue capsized about ten minutes after being torpedoed as all of her watertight doors had been open, and she sank at 07:15.

Cressy under the command of Captain Johnson attempted to ram the submarine, but did not hit anything and resumed her rescue efforts until she too was torpedoed at 07:20. She also took on a heavy list and then capsized, before sinking at 07:55. Several Dutch ships began rescuing survivors at 08:30 and they were joined by British fishing trawlers before Commodore Tyrwhitt and his ships arrived at 10:45.

There was opposition to the 7th. Cruiser Squadron's patrols from many senior Royal Navy officers, including Admiral Jellicoe, Commodores Keyes and Trywhitt and even the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. They argued that the ships were very vulnerable to a raid by modern German surface ships and that the squadron shouldn't be patrolling the North Sea. The squadron gained the nickname 'the Livebait Squadron'. The Admiralty maintained the patrol on the grounds that destroyers were not able to maintain the patrol in the frequent bad weather and that there were insufficient modern light cruisers available.

Of the 777 ratings and 60 officers that survived, one was Kit Wykeham-Musgrave, who was 15 at the time and serving on Aboukir. When his ship went down, he managed, swimming against the suction, to escape and was pulled aboard the Hogue, just before it was struck. As this ship went down, Musgrave again slipped out of death’s fingers to board the Cressy. When this, too, went down, he clung to life on a piece of driftwood, unconscious, until being rescued by a Dutch trawler.

1,397 rating and 62 officers were lost in the attack. The officer of the watch on U-9 later wrote

"In the periscope, a horrifying scene unfolded... We present in the conning tower tried to suppress the terrible impression of drowning men, fighting for their lives in the wreckage, clinging on to capsized lifeboats..."

Aboukir lost a total of 527 men, one of those was Edward, aged 32. Had only been aboard Aboukir for 5 weeks and was the first British chaplain to be killed in the First World War. The chaplains on the other two ships, the Revd. George Henry Collier and the Revd. Wilfred Frank Proffitt Ellis survived.

 

Edward is commemorated on Panel 1 of the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent and at Holy Trinity Church, Caister in Norfolk.

 

On his return to the naval base at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigenhe was awarded the Iron Cross First Class by the Kaiser, his entire crew received the Iron Cross Second Class.

Weddigen died while commanding the submarine U-29. On 18th. March 1915 U-29 was rammed by the British battleship HMS Dreadnought in the Pentland Firth. U-29 had broken the surface immediately ahead of Dreadnought after firing a torpedo at HMS Neptune and Dreadnought cut the submarine in two after a short chase. There were no survivors from the submarine.

The U-9 was one of only two ships which Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded the Iron Cross, the other being a surface raider. After April 1916 she was withdrawn from front line duties to be used for training. The submarined surrendered on 26th. November 1918 and was broken up at Morecambe, Lancashire in 1919.

 

In 1954 the British government sold the salvage rights to all three armoured cruisers to a German company and they were subsequently sold again to a Dutch company which began salvaging the wrecks' metal in 2011.

 

Name: HMS Aboukir

Class: Cressy class

Vessel type: Armoured cruiser

Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan, Scotland

Laid down: 9th. November 1898

Launched: 16th. May 1900

Completed: 3th. April 1902

Fate: Sunk by U-9, 22nd. September 1914

Displacement: 12,000 tons

Length overall: 472 ft. (143.9 m)

Beam: 69 ft. 6 in. (21.2 m)

Max draught: 26 ft. 9 in. (8.2 m)

Installed power: 21,000 hp (16,000 kW)

Boilers: 30 x Belleville boilers

Propulsion: 2 x 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines

Shafts: 2

Speed: 21 knots (24 mph - 39 km/h)

Complement; 725 to 760 men

Armament:

2 x single breach loading 9.2 in. Mk. X guns

12 x single breach loading 6 in. Mk. VII guns

12 x single QF 12 pounder, 12 cwt guns

3 x 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns

2 x single submerged 18 in. torpedo tubes

Armour:

Belt: 2 to 6 in. (51 to 152 mm)

Decks: 1 to 3 in. (25 to 76 mm)

Barbettes: 6 in. (150 mm)

Turrets: 6 in. (150 mm)

Conning tower: 12 in. (305 mm)

Bulkheads: 5 in. (127 mm)

   

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Remembrance Sunday, 8 November 2015

 

In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. Remembrance Sunday is held to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.

 

Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and -women, members of local armed forces regular and reserve units, military cadet forces and uniformed youth organisations. Two minutes’ silence is observed at 11 a.m. and wreaths of remembrance poppies are then laid on the memorials.

 

The United Kingdom national ceremony is held in London at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Wreaths are laid by Queen Elizabeth II, principal members of the Royal Family normally including the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, the Earl of Wessex and the Duke of Kent, the Prime Minister, leaders of the other major political parties, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets and the civilian services, and veterans’ groups. Two minutes' silence is held at 11 a.m., before the laying of the wreaths. This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.

 

The parade consists mainly of an extensive march past by veterans, with military bands playing music following the list of the Traditional Music of Remembrance.

 

Other members of the British Royal Family watch from the balcony of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

 

After the ceremony, a parade of veterans and other related groups, organised by the Royal British Legion, marches past the Cenotaph, each section of which lays a wreath as it passes. Only ticketed participants can take part in the march past.

 

From 1919 until the Second World War remembrance observance was always marked on 11 November itself. It was then moved to Remembrance Sunday, but since the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1995, it has become usual to hold ceremonies on both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.

 

Each year, the music at the National Ceremony of Remembrance remains the same, following a programme finalised in 1930:

 

Rule, Britannia! by Thomas Arne

Heart of Oak by William Boyce

The Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore

Men of Harlech

The Skye Boat Song

Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly

David of the White Rock

Oft in the Stilly Night by John Stevenson

Flowers of the Forest

Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar

Dido's lament by Henry Purcell

O Valiant Hearts by Charles Harris

Solemn Melody by Walford Davies

Last Post – a bugle call

Beethoven's Funeral March No. 1, by Johann Heinrich Walch

O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft

Reveille – a bugle call

God Save The Queen

 

Other pieces of music are then played during the march past and wreath laying by veterans, starting with Trumpet Voluntary and followed by It's A Long Way To Tipperary, the marching song of the Connaught Rangers, a famous British Army Irish Regiment of long ago.

 

The following is complied from press reports on 8 November 2015:

 

"The nation paid silent respect to the country's war dead today in a Remembrance Sunday service. Leading the nation in remembrance, as ever, was the Queen, who first laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in 1945 and has done so every year since, except on the four occasions when she was overseas.

 

Dressed in her customary all-black ensemble with a clutch of scarlet poppies pinned against her left shoulder, she stepped forward following the end of the two-minute silence marked by the sounding of Last Post by 10 Royal Marine buglers.

 

The Queen laid her wreath at the foot of the Sir Edwin Lutyens Portland stone monument to the Glorious Dead, then stood with her head momentarily bowed.

 

She was joined by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who was invited to the Cenotaph for the first time to lay a wreath marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by British troops.

 

Watched by his wife Queen Maxima, who stood next to the Duchess of Cambridge in the Royal Box, the King laid a wreath marked with the simple message, 'In remembrance of the British men and women who gave their lives for our future.'

 

Wreaths were then laid by members of the Royal Family, all wearing military uniform: Prince Philip; then Prince Andrew, Prince Harry and Prince William at the same time ; then Prince Edward, Princess Anne and the Duke of Kent at the same time.

 

Three members of the Royal Family laying wreaths at the same time was an innovation in 2015 designed to slightly reduce the amount of time of the ceremony and thereby reduce the time that the Queen had to be standing.

 

Prince Charles attended a remembrance service in New Zealand.

 

The Prime Minister then laid a wreath. The Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, appeared at the Cenotaph for the first time. He wore both a suit and a red poppy for the occasion.

 

His bow as he laid a wreath marked with the words 'let us resolve to create a world of peace' was imperceptible – and not enough for some critics. Yet unlike the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Battle service earlier this year, Mr Corbyn did join in with the singing of the national anthem.

 

Following the end of the official service at the Cenotaph, a mammoth column more than 10,000-strong (some 9,000 of whom were veterans) began marching along Whitehall, saluting the Cenotaph as they passed, Parliament Street, Great George Street, Horse Guards Road and back to Horse Guard Parade. The Duke of Cambridge took the salute from the column on Horse Guards Parade.

 

Time takes its inevitable toll on even the most stoic among us, and this year only a dozen World War Two veterans marched with the Spirit of Normandy Trust, a year after the Normandy Veterans' Association disbanded.

 

Within their ranks was 95-year-old former Sapper Don Sheppard of the Royal Engineers. Sheppard was of the eldest on parade and was pushed in his wheelchair by his 19-year-old grandson, Sam who, in between studying at Queen Mary University, volunteers with the Normandy veterans.

 

'It is because of my admiration for them,' he says. 'I see them as role models and just have the utmost respect for what they did.'

 

While some had blankets covering their legs against the grey November day, other veterans of more recent wars had only stumps to show for their service to this country during 13 long years of war in Afghanistan.

 

As well as that terrible toll of personal sacrifice, the collective losses – and triumphs - of some of the country’s most historic regiments were also honoured yesterday.

 

The Gurkha Brigade Association - marking 200 years of service in the British Army – marched to warm ripples of applause. The King’s Royal Hussars, represented yesterday by 126 veterans, this year also celebrate 300 years since the regiment was raised.

 

They were led by General Sir Richard Shirreff, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato and Colonel of the regiment who himself was marching for the first time.

 

'We are joined by a golden thread to all those generations who have gone before us,” he said. “We are who we are, because of those that have gone before us.' "

 

Cenotaph Ceremony & March Past - 8 November 2015

Summary of Contingents

 

Column Number of marchers

B (Lead) 1,754

C 1,298

D 1,312

E 1,497

F 1,325

A 1,551

Ex-Service Total 8,737

M (Non ex-Service) 1,621

Total 10,358

 

Column B

Marker Detachment Number

1 Reconnaissance Corps 18 Anniversary

2 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment Old Comrades Assoc 10

3 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery Association 60

4 Royal Artillery Association 18

5 Royal Engineers Association 37

6 Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Association 65 Anniversary

7 Airborne Engineers Association 24

8 Royal Signals Association 48

9 Army Air Corps Association 42

10 Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps Transport Assoc 54

11 RAOC Association 18

12 Army Catering Corps Association 48

13 Royal Pioneer Corps Association 54 Anniversary

14 Royal Army Medical Corps Association 36

15 Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Association 48

16 Royal Military Police Association 100

17 The RAEC and ETS Branch Association 12

18 Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association 36

19 Royal Army Veterinary Corps & Royal Army Dental Corps 18

20 Royal Army Physical Training Corps 24

21 Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Assoc 48

22 Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 30

23 Royal Dragoon Guards 78

24 Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own & Royal Irish) 12

25 Kings Royal Hussars Regimental Association 126

26 16/5th Queen's Royal Lancers 36

27 17/21 Lancers 30

28 The Royal Lancers 24 New for 2015

29 JLR RAC Old Boys' Association 30

30 Association of Ammunition Technicians 24

31 Beachley Old Boys Association 36

32 Arborfield Old Boys Association 25

33 Gallipoli & Dardenelles International 24

34 Special Observers Association 24

35 The Parachute Squadron Royal Armoured Corps 24 New

36 Intelligence Corps Association 48

37 Women's Royal Army Corps Association 120

38 656 Squadron Association 24

39 Home Guard Association 9

40 British Resistance Movement (Coleshill Research Team) 12

41 British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association 48

42 British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association 24

43 Royal Hospital Chelsea 30

44 Queen Alexandra's Hospital Home for Disabled Ex-Servicemen & Women 30

45 The Royal Star & Garter Homes 20

46 Combat Stress 48

Total 1,754

 

Column C

Marker Detachment Number

1 Royal Air Force Association 150

2 Royal Air Force Regiment Association 300

3 Royal Air Forces Ex-Prisoner's of War Association 20

4 Royal Observer Corps Association 75 Anniversary

5 National Service (Royal Air Force) Association 42

6 RAFLING Association 24

7 6 Squadron (Royal Air Force) Association 18

8 7 Squadron Association 25

9 8 Squadron Association 24

10 RAF Habbaniya Association 25

11 Royal Air Force & Defence Fire Services Association 30

12 Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Association 30

13 Units of the Far East Air Force 28 New

14 Royal Air Force Yatesbury Association 16

15 Royal Air Force Airfield Construction Branch Association 12

16 RAFSE(s) Assoc 45 New

17 Royal Air Force Movements and Mobile Air Movements Squadron Association (RAF MAMS) 24

18 Royal Air Force Masirah & Salalah Veterans Assoc 24 New

19 WAAF/WRAF/RAF(W) 25

19 Blenheim Society 18

20 Coastal Command & Maritime Air Association 24

21 Air Sea Rescue & Marine Craft Sections Club 15

22 Federation of RAF Apprentice & Boy Entrant Assocs 150

23 Royal Air Force Air Loadmasters Association 24

24 Royal Air Force Police Association 90

25 Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service Association 40

Total 1,298

 

Column D

Marker Detachment Number

1 Not Forgotten Association 54

2 Stoll 18

3 Ulster Defence Regiment 72

4 Army Dog Unit Northern Ireland Association 48

5 North Irish Horse & Irish Regiments Old Comrades Association 78

6 Northern Ireland Veterans' Association 40

7 Irish United Nations Veterans Association 12

8 ONET UK 10

9 St Helena Government UK 24

10 South Atlantic Medal Association 196

11 SSAFA 37

12 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteers Corps) 12

13 Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women 48

14 British Nuclear Test Veterans Association 48

15 War Widows Association 132

16 Gurkha Brigade Association 160 Anniversary

17 British Gurkha Welfare Society 100 Anniversary

18 West Indian Association of Service Personnel 18

19 Trucial Oman Scouts Association 18

20 Bond Van Wapenbroeders 35

21 Polish Ex-Combatants Association in Great Britain 25

22 Stowarzyszenie Polskich Kombatantów Limited 18 New

23 Royal Hong Kong Regiment Association 12

24 Canadian Veterans Association 10

25 Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association (UK Branch) 24

26 Hong Kong Military Service Corps 28

27 Foreign Legion Association 24

28 Undivided Indian Army Ex Servicemen Association 11 New

Total 1,312

 

Column E

Marker Detachment Number

1 Royal Marines Association 198

2 Royal Naval Association 150

3 Merchant Navy Association 130

4 Sea Harrier Association 24

5 Flower Class Corvette Association 18

6 HMS Andromeda Association 18

7 HMS Argonaut Association 30

8 HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association 25

9 HMS Cumberland Association 18

10 HMS Ganges Association 48

11 HMS Glasgow Association 30

12 HMS St Vincent Association 26

13 HMS Tiger Association 25

14 Algerines Association 20

15 Ton Class Association 24

16 Type 42 Association 48

17 Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service 36

18 Association of WRENS 90

19 Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association 10

20 Royal Naval Communications Association 30

21 Royal Naval Medical Branch Ratings & Sick Berth Staff Association 24

22 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust 18

23 Yangtze Incident Association 24

24 Special Boat Service Association 6

25 Submariners Association 30

26 Association of Royal Yachtsmen 30

27 Broadsword Association 36

28 Aircraft Handlers Association 36

29 Aircrewmans Association 40 Anniversary

30 Cloud Observers Association 10

31 The Fisgard Association 40

32 Fleet Air Arm Armourers Association 36

33 Fleet Air Arm Association 25

34 Fleet Air Arm Bucaneer Association 24

35 Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Association 24

36 Fleet Air Arm Junglie Association 18

37 Fleet Air Arm Officers Association 30

38 Fleet Air Arm Safety Equipment & Survival Association 24

39 Royal Navy School of Physical Training 24

Total 1,497

 

Column F

Marker Detachment Number

1 Blind Veterans UK 198

2 Far East Prisoners of War 18

3 Burma Star Association 40

4 Monte Cassino Society20

5 Queen's Bodyguard of The Yeoman of The Guard 18

6 Pen and Sword Club 15

7 TRBL Ex-Service Members 301

8 The Royal British Legion Poppy Factory 4

9 The Royal British Legion Scotland 24

10 Officers Association 5

11 Black and White Club 18

12 National Pigeon War Service 30

13 National Service Veterans Alliance 50

14 Gallantry Medallists League 46

15 National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association 98

16 National Gulf Veterans & Families Association 30

17 Fellowship of the Services 100

18 Memorable Order of Tin Hats 24

19 Suez Veterans Association 50

20 Aden Veterans Association 72

21 1st Army Association 36

22 Showmens' Guild of Great Britain 40

23 Special Forces Club 12

24 The Spirit of Normandy Trust 28

25 Italy Star Association, 1943-1945, 48

Total 1,325

 

Column A

Marker Detachment Number

1 1LI Association 36

2 Royal Green Jackets Association 198

3 Parachute Regimental Association 174

4 King's Own Scottish Borderers 60

5 Black Watch Association 45

6 Gordon Highlanders Association 60

7 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Association 12

8 Queen's Own Highlanders Regimental Association 48

9 London Scottish Regimental Association 30

10 Grenadier Guards Association 48

11 Coldstream Guards Association 48

12 Scots Guards Association 48

13 Guards Parachute Association 36

14 4 Company Association (Parachute Regiment) 24

15 Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment 72

16 Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Past & Present Association 30

17 Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Regimental Association 24

18 Royal Hampshire Regiment Comrades Association 14

19 The Royal Hampshire Regimental Club 24 New for 2015

20 Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 48 New

21 Royal Sussex Regimental Association 12

22 Green Howards Association 24

23 Cheshire Regiment Association 24

24 Sherwood Foresters & Worcestershire Regiment 36

25 Mercian Regiment Association 30

26 Special Air Service Regimental Association 4

27 The King's Own Royal Border Regiment 100

28 The Staffordshire Regiment 48

29 Rifles Regimental Association 40

30 The Rifles & Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regimental Association 30

31 Durham Light Infantry Association 60

32 King's Royal Rifle Corps Association 50

33 King's African Rifles 14 New for 2015

Total 1,551

 

Column M

Marker Detachment Number

1 Transport For London 48

2 Children of the Far East Prisoners of War 60

3 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteers Corps) 24

4 Munitions Workers Association18

5 Evacuees Reunion Association48

6 TOC H 20

7 Salvation Army 36

8 Naval Canteen Service & Expeditionary Force Institutes Association 12 Previously NAAFI

9 Royal Voluntary Service 24

10 Civil Defence Association 8

11 National Association of Retired Police Officers 36

12 Metropolitan Special Constabulary 36

13 London Ambulance Service NHS Trust 36

14 London Ambulance Service Retirement Association 18

15 St John Ambulance 36

16 British Red Cross 12

17 St Andrew's Ambulance Association 6

18 The Firefighters Memorial Trust 24

19 Royal Ulster Constabulary (GC) Association 36

20 Ulster Special Constabulary Association 30

21 Commonwealth War Graves Commission 12

22 Daniel's Trust 36

23 Civilians Representing Families 180

24 Royal Mail Group Ltd 24

25 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 24

26 The Blue Cross 24

27 PDSA 24

28 HM Ships Glorious Ardent & ACASTA Association 24 Anniversary

29 Old Cryptians' Club 12

30 Fighting G Club 18 Anniversary

31 Malayan Volunteers Group 12

32 Gallipoli Association 18

33 Ministry of Defence 20

34 TRBL Non Ex-Service Members 117

35 TRBL Women's Section 20

36 Union Jack Club 12

37 Western Front Association 8

38 Shot at Dawn Pardons Campaign 18

39 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes 24

40 National Association of Round Tables 24

41 Lions Club International 24

42 Rotary International 24

43 41 Club 6

44 Equity 12

45 Romany & Traveller Society 18

46 Sea Cadet Corps 30

47 Combined Cadet Force 30

48 Army Cadet Force 30

49 Air Training Corps 30

50 Scout Association 30

51 Girlguiding London & South East England 30

52 Boys Brigade 30

53 Girls Brigade England & Wales 30

54 Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade 30

55 Metropolitan Police Volunteer Police Cadets 18

56 St John Ambulance Cadets 18

57 YMCA 12

Total 1,621

Burning Man 2010 [105271]

Remembering the ‘Twerp’

 

On 26 December 1947, a small, nondescript wooden-hulled motor vessel set off from Hobart, bound for Antarctica. Its silhouette resembled that of an ageing offshore fishing craft, but its weather deck was packed from stem to stern with supplies and equipment – including a single-engine Vought-Sikorsky Kingfisher floatplane. At the helm was Commander Karl E Oom, an officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He was supported by five naval officers, 22 ratings, a Royal Australian Air Force pilot and air fitter mechanic, and an Australian Department of Information photographer. The complement was rounded out by four civilian scientists who were responsible for conducting a series of experiments, and observing meteorological and other natural phenomena in the Antarctic.

 

Their voyage would be the first to operate under the banner of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE), a series of post-war initiatives to establish Australian scientific research stations in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic territories of Heard Island and Macquarie Island. ANARE laid the foundation for the establishment of the Australian Antarctic Division, and in later years Australia’s polar research ships could trace their lineage back to the little timber craft then making its way towards the world’s southernmost continent: HMAS Wyatt Earp.

 

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ANMM Collection ANMS1445[083].

 

Find out more about HMAS Wyatt Earp on our blog.

I hope I don't lose my G rating. Ha ha.

Olive fruit fly

 

Camera: Pentax K-5

Lens: Jupiter-21M f4/200mm M42 + Raynox DCR-250 + DIY Diffuser

Exposure Time: 1/180 sec.

Aperture Value: f/16

Focal Length: 200 mm

ISO Speed Rating: 100

Post Process: Photoshop

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Completed in 12 hrs., 54 mins. with no box reference. 23.2 secs./piece. Difficulty rating: 2.3/10.

 

A thoroughly enjoyable puzzle - great colors with a hint of fall or late summer. Van Gogh's style makes for a difficult puzzle experience, but there was enough going on in the image to keep me on my toes and it never got boring or monotonous.

IDENTIFICATION

 

Ship Name: ARMORIQUE

IMO Number: 9364980

MMSI:228263700

Bureau Veritas Register Number:09677V

Call Sign:FMLW

Type & service: Ro-ro passenger ship

Owner:BRITTANY FERRIES - BRETAGNE ANGLETERRE IRLANDE SA.

Connecting District: BREST (BRT)

Flag: France

Port of Registry: MORLAIX

 

DIMENSION

 

Gross Tonnage 69: 29,468

Net Tonnage 69: 11,605

Deadweight: 4,200 ton

Overall Length: 165 m

LPP: 155 m

Breadth: 26.8 m

Draught: 6.5 m

Freeboard:1,611 mm

 

HULL & CARGO

 

Builder: STX Finland Oy

Country of build: FINLAND

Date of Build: 26 Jan 2009

Yard N°: 1362

Hull Material: Steel

Number of Cont. Decks: 1

11, Machinery Aft

TANKS LBC:98,010

Fuel Capacity:787.5 m³

 

MACHINERY

 

Propelling Type: Diesel

Licence: MAK

Date of Build: 07 Nov 2007

Builder: MAK

 

POWER AND RATING

 

Total Power (kW): 24,000 kW

Total Power (HP): 32,608 HP

 

PROPELLING MACHINERY

 

Internal Combustion Engine:(2) 4T - 12 cyl - 43.00 cm x 61.00 cm at 500 rpm

 

BOILERS

 

Boiler:2 CHR 381.00 m² / 9.70 bar,2 CHO 41.00 m² / 9.70 bar

 

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION

 

Frequency: 50 Hz

Diesel Generators: 1 - 900 kVA - 720 kW - 1630 HP,2 - 1440 kVA - 1152 kW - 1630 HP

 

PROPELLERS AND PROPELLERSHAFTS

 

Propelling system:: 2 Screw Propeller Controllable pitch LB 10.00 at 153 rpm

 

SPEED OF THE SHIP: 23 kn

 

daft as it sounds, but i rate panels on various aspects, engraving, paint quality, back light and accuracy, keep a note pad handy, write down ratings and notes so next time i build the same piece i can remember what i did not like about the last attempt. for back light i average usually 7/10 however this one has a rating of 10/10, well happy, first for me, maybe i have finally figured this panel making lark out??

Newly minted Challenger pilots!

This is my old 1922 Victrola. I have had the spring motor repaired and rewound. I have also reworked the sound box (the part where the needle goes in). It sounds wonderful and quite loud, depending on the loudness rating of the needle used. It is only recommended you use the needle for one play, This picture was taken in very low lighting with an Olympus OM-1n on Kodak ColorPlus 200 asa using a 50mm zuiko lens f2.8 for 1 second exposure, Developed in Unicolor C-41 kit.

I'm a rabid Amazon.com fanboy. Living 70+ miles away from a mall or "real" shopping center, I rely on online buying for a lot- I've bought cameras, jeans, sheets, cables, batteries, chargers, and more from them just tis year.

 

This box contains photo paper and a camera lens carrying case I ordered less than 48 hours ago, that arrived on my front door, on a dirt street in a small town in north central Arizona,

 

5 <3 for Amazon.

Canon EOS 500D, Sigma 10-20 mm

Handheld

Really Right Stuff universal L-plate

5x3 Exposures (2 EV steps), AEB M

Jul 30, 2012 6:26:41 PM

Exposure Time: 1/65

FNumber: 8

Focal Length: 10

ISO Speed Ratings: 100

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