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This year we discovered that my wife’s grandmother’s uncle was killed in WWI.

Phillip Marich Passmore
Rank Private
Unit 19 Infantry Battalion (June 1915)

He arrived at Anzac Cove on the 17th May 1915 and was killed on the 16th November 1915. He was killed at Popes Hill. He was 19.

Phillip may be a long distant relative but when we researched into to him it really brought home the shame and brutally of war to us. What made it even worse is that we saw a copy of the letter his father had signed allowing him to enlist.

Lest we Forget.

Both Jas and Chris Bean resigned too right after I did. They were both directors of SimTek. This is way back in Feb/March. Chris was my direct manager.

I was able to go straight back into my old job with Australia Post. All my old team leaders wanted me back when they heard I was looking for a new job.

In my spare time this is what I am doing now days... http://rossmz.blogspot.com/

Well if ya don't pay ya taxes...

& people wonder why some of us left months ago... Writing on the wall and not being paid on time. Let it be said I was finally paid up 4 months after I had resigned... Some have yet to see any money...

http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/67b8c95593ee31b12f2d4cd511e4ae73/wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo

The other week I started to delete all the files on this site. Why? Because I didn't check what I was doing. I was able to rescue all my Close Combat files but all the others are now gone. You can get my files from

http://www.wargamer.com/Hosted/CloseCombatFuture/index.htm

In one word. YES!

Take a bow guys. We stand in awe of you all that worked on this mod. It's beyond a mod. It's a whole new game. Very Happy

Mod crashes when loading a battle that has Italain BGs. Anyone esle getting this?

As was mentioned above... http://www.closecombat.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7880

As time goes by we will release more details. Very Happy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3667986.stm

A group of British World War II veterans have staged a parachute jump over Arnhem, 60 years after they were sent into battle there.
The 10 former paratroops, aged between 79 and 85, landed at Grinkel Heath, near Arnhem, in the Netherlands.

Three of the men jumped solo from a height of about 3,500ft. The others jumped in tandem with the Army Parachute Regiment's Red Devils team.

They were being followed by 600 present-day paratroops.

Speaking after landing safely on the heath after Saturday's jump, veteran Harry Herbert, 80, said: "This is a doddle compared to 60 years ago.

"This grass was alight 60 years ago and we had a lot of people trying to shoot us down."

Mr Herbert, of Gillingham, Kent, was a pilot with the 10th Battalion during the battle.

Fellow-jumper Tom Hicks, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said of his tandem jump: "The thrill is that all our friends are here watching us. They are so welcoming when we come down it makes it all worthwhile.

Mr Hicks, formerly of the 1st Para Royal Engineers, said: "I'm only 85 so I've got a long way to go yet."

Tom Smithson, one of the solo-jumpers, said: "It was windy and I landed right on a big tree. I have scratches and grazes but I'm not seriously hurt.

"It was very windy and I couldn't get back onto the dropping zone but it is wonderful down here."

Mr Smithson, 80, of Sutton Coldfield, was a corporal with the Ist Division HQ Defence Platoon in 1944.

He said: "You never get rid of the memories. You think of nothing else."

All 10 of the veterans taking part in Saturday's jump were among the 16,500 paratroops and 3,500 troops in gliders who were dropped into Arnhem for the operation in 1944.

The British-led and ultimately failed effort to push through enemy lines was immortalised in A Bridge Too Far.

Field Marshal Montgomery's ill-fated Market Garden campaign was conceived to try to shorten the war.

The plan was to take control of eight bridges along the German-Dutch border.

British paratroops were deliberately dropped eight miles from the bridges, but it was impossible for them to reach their target before the Germans were tipped off.

Nearly 6,000 from the 1st Airborne Division were captured after Arnhem and 1,174 killed. Almost 1,900 men escaped.

Another site to spend hours at instead of being outside in the lovely Sydney weather. Cool

I had no problems joining this site. But then people let me into the strangest of places. Laughing


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