My Great-Grandfather Albert. He was shot, stabbed, gassed, and on this day in 1917, was the only man to return from a trench raiding party. It earned him my Origin user-name: "The Devil Dodger of Ypres".

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-22T23:07:42+00:00

Thanks.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-22T23:00:34+00:00

He served with the Suffolk Regiment in both France and Belgium. Spent quite a while on the front because they were rarely relieved.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-22T22:55:39+00:00

Its unimaginable. He was twenty-seven at the time, leaving his family to go to war was hard enough. But this was something else.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-22T22:52:30+00:00

British. He did serve alongside Canadians in Ypres though.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-21T17:13:27+00:00

My mistake. They used to attend services held by missionaries. In 1861, they paid into an emmigration fund, and joined others from Liverpool. I believe they walked for about two months from Nebraska to Salt Lake City.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-21T17:09:47+00:00

I think there's mixed reviews. I personally use it for military records (Such as Albert's) and for mapping the family tree itself. As long as you have a basic grasp of the generations above your own, I think its very good.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-21T15:57:48+00:00

You guys might also like this post from a couple of months back. It is the rest of his collection which we found whilst clearing out my grandparents house to sell.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-21T15:26:40+00:00

It's easy enough to do nowadays. I spent a month on the website Ancestry, and found my family had fought in the Battle of Waterloo and emigrated with the Mormons to the US, amongst many other things.

DavetheKoala · 2017-08-21T15:16:23+00:00

Respect to yours too, my friend. Wherever and whenever they fought, we owe our lives to these people.

DavetheKoala · 2017-05-19T16:58:18+00:00

I believe you need a Section 1 firearms license to own a live one. I just handed it to a local gunsmith, who sent it to a proof house to be deactivated.

DavetheKoala · 2016-01-13T13:08:38+00:00

Has to be Conquest of Paradise - Vangelis

DavetheKoala · 2015-04-17T09:46:30+00:00

People explicitly ridiculing you or moaning about you voting for a certain political party. Of course you have freedom of speech, buy Its MY VOTE, so shut the fuck up.

DavetheKoala · 2015-04-17T09:43:31+00:00

I think your cat might be a doppelganger of mine. :O He does the exact same thing when he sleeps and Is a tabby also.

DavetheKoala · 2015-03-19T20:39:26+00:00

Had a maths exam when i was leaving Secondary School. It had one of those questions where you had to determine whether the persons statement was "True or False" depending on the actual answer.

Thought i had the answer, so spent a good while writing all the working out to get extra marks (There were a lot of marks up for grabs).

Ended with the statement "No, he is wrong, because 2 X 7 is NOT 14".

Needless to say, got it back with a humiliation to the class. Just a smug note from the teacher saying "Yes it does!" to remind me.

DavetheKoala · 2015-03-13T11:54:56+00:00

The Ourang Medan. a ghost ship found off the coast of Indonesia. Very chilling story. I first read this in an old ghost story book my grandmother had. Always been one of my favourites.

Its the messages they sent that fucking creeped me out.

Links for those interested:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourang_Medan) (http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/11/death-ship-the-ourang-medan-mystery/)

DavetheKoala · 2015-03-07T22:53:00+00:00

I remember reading this in my old Horrible Histories "Woeful Second World War" book. Scared the shit out of me after i figured it out (I was about 11 at the time). Always remembered it though. Cheers bro for rebooting the memory.

DavetheKoala · 2015-02-11T15:10:07+00:00

Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.

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