The Goldmine.
  • Spy vs Spy
    • At Fox River
    • Patty and the Tet Offensive
    • Pale and Interesting >
      • More pale and interesting
      • Older, still pale, possibly only interesting to a couple of people
    • The Heckler and Koch Affair
    • Spy vs Spy
  • Peeling the Onion
  • Old unhappy far-off things
    • Wipers and the Ypres League
    • Fanny and Cobber.
    • In Memoriam
  • Slightly Saltirical
    • A Dexter Hand
    • The Boar-Worshippers
  • Taken by the Hand
    • Geranium Days
    • The Lockhart Papers
    • A Martial Aspect
    • O Perfect Love >
      • Sonnets Unplugged
      • Stout Cortez
    • Tea and an Ascot
  • Childe Harold
    • Monikers >
      • The Sandman and Sleipnir
    • Bos Indicus
    • Three things in a field >
      • Dance With A Bull
  • Eureka (Stockade)
    • Two for Joy
    • At the Bottom of the Garden >
      • Coins of the Realm
  • Superstitious Nonsense
    • Leaves of Tea
  • The Best of Times
    • The Space Race >
      • C.P.Snow
  • Sorry luv, I missed that.
  • Valley Girls
    • Britten, B et al >
      • Gammon and Spinach
      • The Blue Flowers >
        • The Beautiful People
        • The girls from 9DY Rangi Ruru >
          • The Fires of Hell and other Works of Art
        • The Cat's Paw and other Feline Fables
        • Flowers in Bloom
      • The Moon and Daisies
      • Snowmaiden Revelry
  • Sitting on Custard
  • The Long White Grass
    • Somewhere...
  • I have pictures
  • The Queen's Cake
  • A Portrait by Hoppner
  • The Iron Fist.
    • Slow twitching gams.
  • Whips and Whatnot
  • Showering with Friends

Lt J.O.Alexander

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The legacy of two badly broken legs in 1937 (after being run over by a wheat-laden wagon) did not keep my grandfather out of WWII. A doctor in Queensland in 1944 looked at some X-rays of J.O.'s legs and found it hard to believe that he'd ever been allowed into the army. The doctor brother-in-law may have known something. The truth of the matter remains a mystery.

Cpt Dr W.J.Hull

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This is a war story I know little of.

Some great-uncles volunteering.

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Uncle Wal served very briefly in WWI. Uncle Victor was a bit too young. They lived well inland in the the Riverina region of NSW, Australia. No buzzbomb ever disturbed their slumbers, as far as I can tell.

I have mentioned this elsewhere but this entry from the flying log of Flying Officer W.J.Henderson always intrigues me.
'Oct 31 1944. Day ops -- Gestapo HQ at Aaarhuspa, Denmark -- Refuelled at Swanton Morley before & after. Light and medium flak D.C.O.'
This mission was flown in a Mosquito (of RAAF squadron 464). The navigator was W/O Jack Hawke.
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My grandfather's hand.