Eddie Bairstow
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Ex-RN and Army Schoolie. 45 Cdo Gp Schoolie/Watchkeeper Falklands 82. 800m/1500m athletics coach. Photography. Old churches.
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@MilitaryBanter
You don't need to have any medals to pay your respects. If you have medals, you don't need to wear them if they are mentally uncomfortable. You don't need to be at a service. Remember in your own way, in your own time.
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@TheParachuteReg
Blue Plaque for Lt Col H Jones VC on the slipway in Kingswear lower ferry to Dartmouth.
@FalklandsinUK
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@SeanLaPrawn
It is little moments like this which bring tears to my eyes. Thank you for posting such a wonderful sight. Well done to both children and their parents.
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@NotesFASMil
I wore DMS as
@45CdoGp
yomped across the Falklands in 82. They got wet but dried a bit. I thought I'd avoided trench foot until my feet came back to life after 2 days on Canberra coming home. Ow! Me (left) and Taff Thomas RM wearing DMS. 1st drink Stanley 16 Jun 82.
@WarDiaryF82
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@RDPHistory
It is worth noting the black vertical stripe midships on HMS Glasgow (type 42). This is to differentiate our type 42s from Argentine type 42s. A pic I took from Canberra of HMS Cardiff with its black stripe just before we sailed home.
@RMHistSociety
@warsmatter
@militaryhistori
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A memorial bench dedicated to the 13 members of
@45CdoGp
who lost their lives in the Falklands 1982 was unveiled at Condor, Arbroath yesterday. Mag Gen A F Whitehead CB DSO (CO 45 in 82) and Maj P Chapman (RSM 45 in 82) in photo 2.
@RoyalMarines
Welcoming back veterans to the Woodlands Memorial Garden at Condor,
@theRMcharity
hosted the unveiling of a bench dedicated to the Falklands War
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@DavidDi73100612
Best SNCO in film or on TV? 🤔Three spring to mind. The R Lee Ermy as Gunnery Sgt Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Clint Eastwood as Gunny Highway in Heartbreak Ridge. And,in a different way,John Le Mesurier as Sgt Wilson in Dad's Army.
@militaryhistori
@curatorian
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A neighbour of mine died recently. Her son has let me look at her father's WW2
@RoyalNavy
photos and docs. He served on the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable 6 May 44-18 Jan 46. Crew photo. More photo to come, inc planes
@NatMuseumRN
@FleetAirArmMus
@militaryhistori
@warsmatter
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Today I was shown this
@RoyalNavy
Crossing the Line (Equator) Certificate from 9 Sep 1942 and told I could put it on social media. It was for his grandfather, Joseph Bagley, on the cruiser HMS Dauntless. It was wartime. Wow.
@NatMuseumRN
@I_W_M
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@RDPHistory
Sad sight. I always think of the Falklands as a War & not a Conflict. I can understand there's a political definition of a war but for me, lives lost, ships sunk, aircraft shot down, hand to hand night battles, bombs, minefields = war.
@militaryhistori
@warsmatter
@curatorian
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox
Great story, Andrew. Walking along Piccadilly a Hussar Officer I knew spotted me and dragged me into the Guards & Cavalry Club for a couple of glasses of Champagne. We served together when I was the RN Exchange Office at RAEC Beaconsfield. He was a Korea Vet.
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I've seen posts about how "toxic" X is. I think toxicity is linked to what you click on. I like mil history, old churches, photos, funnies: very little toxicity. Outside of X, on TV I don't like progs with angst & shouty people, so I don't watch them.
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@RDPHistory
These photos brought a tear to my eyes,Ricky. HMS Glamorgan was providing gun fire support for
@45CdoGp
on Two Sisters when she was hit by land-based Exocet and so many of her crew lost their lives.
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@EODHappyCaptain
1982 on the way to the Falklands War with
@45CdoGp
I am in the inflatable boat being hosed down by King Neptune's Bears and scrubbed with very COOL seawater as we crossed the line (Equator). What a great set of memories and photos on this thread. 👏
@RMHistSociety
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@Rivermansky63
That's not driftwood. That is an example of the very rare two-footed lizard Biggus Stickus. 🙄
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@Posted_to_BAOR
For those who might not know... medal one "getting stoned" means that stones were thrown at the recipient. It has nothing to do with drug use. 🙄
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@rgpoulussen
Amazing piece of film. Photo I took 21 May 82 Falklands. Not same league as your film. B Echelon
@45CdoGp
leave RFA Sir Percivale late afternoon after a day in Bomb Alley under air attack. We landed at Ajax Bay under Air Raid warning Red. Quick look for cover.
@RMHistSociety
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@militaryhistori
In my life (born 1953) the end of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a very significant event. I'd joined RN in 76 and Army 86. Warsaw Pact and NATO were the major forces in Europe. It was hard to imagine the fall of the Wall. Photo I took in Aug 86
@diemauerthewall
@AliceB01973554
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@rigsby_andy
Falklands 3/4 Jun 82 the Blues & Royals motored past
@45CdoGp
as we yomped towards Mt Kent. You can see them, and 45's unit snake, disappearing over the hill into the distance.
@3_CommandoBde
@warsmatter
@FIMuseum
@militaryhistori
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@MortenKathy
@aircadets
@RoyalAirForce
@chinnychick
@Chf_Eng_Air
@RichMaddisonRAF
@SHSARNav
@ChinookDisplay
@StnCdrRAFOdiham
@27_Sqn
A photo I took of a that very helicopter (BN) flying over Stanley, Falklands on 24 June 1982. I was on a boat on the way to Canberra for the journey home. Not a brilliant photo. It was quite a way distant.
@militaryhistori
@curatorian
@warsmatter
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@AliceB01973554
My most memorable beer. Stanley, Falklands 16 Jun 82, Wednesday. I was with
@45CdoGp
. We had just done the final yomp from Sapper Hill to Stanley. Me on L & Sgt Taff Thomas RM on R. Bivvy Partners across the Island. SMG is unloaded
@militaryhistori
@RMHistSociety
@warsmatter
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@VeteranIrish
I attended Rick Jolly's funeral at HMS Raleigh. In 2009 my sister asked him to sign a copy of The Red & Green Life Machine for me. I met him in 1979 at CTCRM. He wrote a novel "For Campaign Service", under the name Christopher Hawke, based on his service in N Ireland.
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@jimberriman
@DrChrisParry
I think this is HMS Antrim and Humphrey in a photo I took at Ascension April 1982 on the way South.
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@RoyalNavy
@militaryhistori
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@chinnychick
RFA Sir Percivale on the way to the Falklands 1982. Officers Mess/Wardroom. Ship's Capt Pitt in blue, smiling on left. We were seeing if the deck was fractionally cooler than the seats. We were in the Tropics, no air-con.
@RFAHeadquarters
@FalklandsinUK
@45CdoGp
@RoyalMarines
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@chinnychick
#wokkawednesday
A photo I took during Falklands War in 82. Wessex 5 taking cover during an Air Raid Red, 22/23 May 82 close to Ajax Bay. I've been told it was YS 845 NAS, flown by Pete Manley & Rick Fox, aircrew Arthur Balls.
@warsmatter
@NatMuseumRN
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@davidjmcarson1
@AliceB01973554
What a great photo! Any idea when it was taken, Alice? Well, David .... Stanley, Falklands 16 May 1982. First drink at the Globe Hotel. SMG unloaded. Royal Navy (me) and Royal Marines bivvy partner Sgt Taff Thomas. 😎
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@ProfTonyPollard
@UofGlasgowASC
@UnitedAgents
When I was at school in the 60s I used to write to famous people and ask if they'd send me a signed photo. I got a nice letter back from Douglas Bader and a signed photo from Kenneth More who played him in Reach for the sky.
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@EODHappyCaptain
Jan-Mar 1981. Arctic Warfare Training with
@45CdoGp
and
@3Cdo_Bde
, inside the Arctic Circle, where you get your water by boiling snow. A piece of advice which had never left me: "Don't drink yellow snow". 🙄
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@ChrisRyanMM
Have a look at this diagram, Chris. 15
@RoyalNavy
cooks were killed in the Falklands War 82. I was serving with
@45CdoGp
in the Falklands. Three of our
@RoyalMarines
cooks were killed as a result of an air attack at Ajax Bay 27 May 82.
@warsmatter
@militaryhistori
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@LiverpoolVista
The Liverpool Blitz memorial is superb.
@Jimmyocx3
@tigga
@DrHelenFry
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@seventiesuk
I have great memories of my Lucozade-colour Honda HRV. I drove that car for 10 years. ps Ribena and hot water when poorly and putting Vick in a bowl, boiling water in, then sitting over it with a cloth over your head and the bowl. Eeee , when ah when a Lad.
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@Menvadda
@45CdoGp
@RMHistSociety
@warsmatter
@Jimmyocx3
The Volvo BV202E was superb. We used for the HQ Command Post
@45CdoGp
. Lots of roles: supply of food, ammo, arty shells, water but also casevac, particularly at battle sites. Seen here late May at Ajax Bay loading ration packs. Mexefloat and rigid raider
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@airborne316
Those sofas look ridiculous. I agree with other comments that the people on them should be standing to respect those passing out.
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@SilvioTattiscon
It is lovely that the Kingfisher soon realises that the man is trying to help and then calms down. Wonderful.
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