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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tony Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:02am
Bit dated hoadie its a queen on  the throne. No not Daves cuz in the dunny I mean a proper royal.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hoadie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2006 at 9:42pm
I know that! Ya gotta remember WHO the Soveriegn was to the "colonials" (the ORIGINAL colonials). That would be the one they named after ME, I suspect.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tony Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2006 at 1:10am
Well German George wasn't liked by the English mate !! Why do you think Mountbatten changed his name after ww1? The House of Hanover have never been the real royals here. They're imports after we gave Charles a haircut following the civil war in 1642. Scots had even less to like them for after the rebellion in 1745. Shame Bonnie Prince Charlie didn't make it to London they managed to get as far as Derby before they turned back.
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You know what an Irisman is?....It's a Scotsman that can swim!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote allan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2006 at 5:47pm

Originally posted by hoadie hoadie wrote:

You know what an Irisman is?....It's a Scotsman that can swim!
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 now thats a low blow hoadie! and i thought we were mates!

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Actually hoadie the scots and the irish are from different ancient tribes. The Irish are Picts an old established race living in Ireland pre the roman invasion.
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   A bit late in my reply but I have some drill manuals that I inherited from my father in law. He was a Sgt Gunnery Instructor in the brit. army.
   I have Small Arms Training. Rifle 1942.
              Gun Drill for Q.F. 25Pr Mark II Gun.1944
              Handbook of the Polsten, Machine Gun 20mm Mk1 1944
              Rifle Training For War, Local Defence Volunteers. Price 1/-
             and Manual of Modern Automatic Guns,Sten, Bren,Lewis, Thompson, Vickers, Browning.                                      Loading, Firing, Details of Mechanism, Stoppages and Immediate Action.  Stripping and Assemblling. Price 1/-
     No PC brigade in those days. The First Paragraph reads:-
    The Object Of Weapons Training
    The sole object of weapons training is to teach all ranks the most efficient way of handling weapons in order to kill the enemy. Instructors will always bear this fact in mind, and continually impress it upon those whom they instruct.  
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very cool manual!  thanks for the post.
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1935!
Wow, only 9p as well.Clap
 
I saved a copy of that, thanks. Not sure why I saved a copy, as like most I hated drill, & wasn't too thrilled about giving drill instruction later on.
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I wonder why it was only the Drill Sgt that said Drill was enjoyable Confused







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Ducan that is an interesting manual
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Originally posted by Cookie Monster Cookie Monster wrote:

Ducan that is an interesting manual


Which one, the top?

I also bought this recently.


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MAN!! What a treasure trove of great info!!! THANX A BIG BUNCH!!
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Did anyone else not get the images in the "  U.K. Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms) 1935
" manual when downloading it?
I got 18 pages of text, but the images weren't there.
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I don't think that PDF has pictures. This one here has some pictures.

Rifle Exercises (Arms Drill)

http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Rifle_Exercises_Arms_Drill.pdf

Port Arms

http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Port_Arms.pdf

I have seen a Canadian Navy drill manual in PDF that has special on deck drilling which is slightly different.  I think the Canadian Navy at one point went to on deck drilling even on shore.
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