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Re: The official AHF Allied & Neutral Armies quiz thread

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Post by Bill Murray » 13 Feb 2012, 12:46

Nice second shot, Oracle.
Spot on. And................what a marvelous coincidence that Iffig used exactly the same reference link I had saved to post when someone got the right answer!!!!!!!!!!!

Over to England.

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Re: The official AHF Allied & Neutral Armies quiz thread

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Post by Oracle » 13 Feb 2012, 13:03

I confess that I thought it was a Plymouth (1941) but when I checked online the '41s had different side treatment. That's my excuse! :wink:

This is a favourite and is well-known. Country/location/event please:

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Taken in 1940.

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Post by Oracle » 16 Feb 2012, 23:08

I'll have to give a hint as this quiz may stick! '1940: over there' and a 'royal occasion'.

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Post by Oracle » 04 Mar 2012, 18:37

We are not goiung anywhere so the answer is that it was taken in spring (May or June) 1940 with a visit by the King and Queen to the 1st Canadian Division at Camp Bordon, Hampshire. The Governor-General of Canada and his wife were also there. There was also the 1938 Chevrolet 15-cwt that was brought over. You can see it at the rear.

Perhaps someone else can throw a question in please?

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Post by iffig » 30 May 2012, 23:01

Just to ressucitate the quizz .....
An anonymous soldier from a famous unit. Which one?

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Post by iffig » 09 Jun 2012, 12:23

Thus unit hour of glory was on D-day.

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Post by iffig » 21 Jun 2012, 10:47

Hint:

the unit was led by someone who was said to have been: "the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat".

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Re: The official AHF Allied & Neutral Armies quiz thread

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Post by Ironmachine » 21 Jun 2012, 11:48

1st Special Service Brigade?

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Post by iffig » 21 Jun 2012, 13:14

A Lord Lovat scout indeed (look closely at his collar badges). But they were part of this Brigade lead by Lord Lovat in June 44.
W. Churchill took the two verses from Byron's "Don Juan" to qualify this great soldier.

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Post by Ironmachine » 21 Jun 2012, 18:19

Two pictures of the same guy (sorry for the bad quality, but I could not find anything better), remarkable for being a "first". Who?
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Post by peeved » 21 Jun 2012, 18:34

Robert Moffat Losey?

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Post by Ironmachine » 21 Jun 2012, 21:13

No. But this one is also a U.S. national.

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Post by Ironmachine » 30 Jun 2012, 16:10

He served in a rather unusual U.S. Army unit .

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Post by Ironmachine » 10 Jul 2012, 08:12

His biggest adventure, which brought him immortal fame (or, better, immortal shame :wink: ), ended, certainly not as he expected, in Mexico.

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