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Petition to save Hill 60 at Ypres

Old 2nd Jan 2010, 14:35
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Petition to save Hill 60 at Ypres

Found this on another forum, although not aviation I thought it may be of interest

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Old 2nd Jan 2010, 15:19
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Done. Given the other thread running here this is perfectly appropriate. Hill 60 played a significant battle in the campaign in The Salient. The thought of it being bulldozed to make way for housing is appalling. It was created from the spall from the railway line that runs beneath it and the main German bunker that still exists there had to be modified by the Allies when the hill was eventually taken so that the entrance door was now not facing the enemy!

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Old 2nd Jan 2010, 16:02
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A film about Hill 60 has just been completed in Oz and is scheduled for release in the spring. Details: BENEATH HILL 60 - a WWI feature film - Captain Woodward MC - WW1 Tunnelers
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Grand Father was on the Somme. Never spoke about it to his wife or his 6 children or many grandchidren.

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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 02:38
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Agree with the other comments.

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My father was wounded at Gallipoli, my mother said he would never talk about it. The only reason she knew was because he had a scar from a turkish bayonet on his chest.
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many thanks for finding and posting the link timex
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Both my Grandfathers took part in that little PARTY
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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 10:37
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Done, didn't know anyone involved but doesn't mean we should not care.
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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 11:05
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Blood oath. Every pom, aussie, kiwi, or any other allied nation that has ANYTHING to do that is even remotely associated with Ypres should sign this petition. Good show.
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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 13:42
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Done

A good Thread, the more we get the better. Suprised the Belgians are suggesting this, have to say.

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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 21:19
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As I sit here and look at my Great Grandfather's WW1 medals, I'm delighted to sign. As said above, Lest We Forget.
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Done !

Just come back from my first visit to the Somme. All I can say is wow.

We only had 3 days or so to explore, in expert hands, but the things we saw, and heard were So moving. From the ever present Iron Harvest from the fields, to the mass graves, and the memorial to those still missing. We stood out in a preserved section of the trenches, close to the Newfoundland memorial, it was bitterly cold, with an icy blast cutting straight through. We tried oh so hard to imagine what it must have been like to stand there in all of the carnage, for weeks at a time. Intersting snippets supplied by our host included the fact that a lot of the casualties lay in the fields from June to November, before their remains were recovered, imagine that, and that 80% of the German casualties were never recovered, so a lot of the artefacts (of the human type) are now German. Over a 3 day period 1,750,000 rounds were fired. He talks now about finding boots by the edge of the fields where the farmers put them, and toes (or at least toe bones) tumbling out. It was such an eye opener to see just how many people died, and terribly moving.

The ploughs have cleared most of the debris from the top 9 inches or so of the fields, but dig any deeper and you are still into the carpet of human, horse and military material on a huge scale. When Copper prices rose a couple of years ago, the fields were full of families collecting the shell cases to be melted down.

The lasting memory is just the scale of the destruction, I had absolutyely no idea until this week, highly reccomended, and I'll be back for a more detailed look, when it gets a bit warmer.
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Gladly signed. Both Grandfathers were there, one is laying in peace near Bethune, killed July 1918. The other brought me up during WW2 as my Dad was serving in the Royal Artillery. The WW1 medal of the Grandfather that survived is my proudest possesion. like many of his comrades he hardly ever spoke of what he endured. Brave men all.
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It would be a travesty if it was lost
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thanks for the heads up..

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Old 4th Jan 2010, 21:48
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But where does it get the 'location' from? It shows me in Germany!
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Signed here.

Location comes from your IP Address - address of your internet server you connected from. Not always very accurate as some IP addresses are registered as being at the head office of an ISP which may not be where a user is located. Plus ISP's like AOL use proxy servers in different countries to their users.
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Old 4th Jan 2010, 22:19
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I signed.

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Bumpety bump!

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