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Nobby Cheese wrote:My mum's dad fought at the Battle of Mons with the 4th Middlesex and because he never stopped talking about it as he got older he was actually known as 'Mons'...it became his nickname that everyone knew him by!

to tell you the truth I dont know where he fought, he was in the the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders though.I wonder if I could find out.

Isn't it strange that we are talking about these men and it's Armistice day?

scarey.
he also said a German saved his life because he was short for his age and looked a lot younger than he actually was.

A German ended my Uncle's life in France by shooting him in the stomach as he lay sleeping unarmed in a farmhouse.
His name was Ken and he was just 21....my mum's brother.

its hard to believe how young they were, i think my g/d enlisted underage, but i dont think they bothered investigating.its the war that was definately futile.

All war is futile.

Nobby Cheese wrote:All war is futile.

the Second World War wasnt futile.it sends a shiver down my spine to think of the Germans invading Britain.

morning_glory wrote:

Nobby Cheese wrote:All war is futile.

the Second World War wasnt futile.it sends a shiver down my spine to think of the Germans invading Britain.

They started the war but it was still fucking futile!

War is futile for the person who forces war on others because, what one can obtain from cooperation is much more than what is possible by force and war

morning_glory wrote:It sends a shiver down my spine to think of the Germans invading Britain.

If they'd taken over, at least the fucking buses and trains would run on time.

Nobby Cheese wrote:War is futile for the person who forces war on others because, what one can obtain from cooperation is much more than what is possible by force and war

tell that to fuckin Hitler.

Nobby Cheese wrote:

morning_glory wrote:It sends a shiver down my spine to think of the Germans invading Britain.

If they'd taken over, at least the fucking buses and trains would run on time.

No they wouldn't, it's a fallacy but fuck me, Tone, when you think about it, can you imagine the PR department's job if that was all they could come up with.

"So, Karl, the Reich appears to be losing popular support, what with getting our nuts kicked on the various stages of Europe and Dresden taking a, how shall I put it, I'm torn between "bit of a bonfire" and "mass suffocation of civilians". What have you got?"

"Well, fuhrer, we have to avoid all social aspects, costs of war, human and civil rights and Owens has more gold than you have stored in that Montevideo vault, Louis punched fuck out of Schmeling and England football team, Nazi salute or not, fucked us royally in our own backyard, so sport is out"

"Vell?" (note the cod German V/W thing. Bit of gritty realism)

"Mass transport. It appears our trains and buses might run slightly more efficiently. Benny the Eyetie lived off this. Until the lamp post, of course. Odd thing was he didn't make them run better"

"Is that all you haff?"

"Ja!"

"Fair enough, it's marginally better than fuck all and I'm off to Brazil once I've constructed this lifelike model tableau of me, Eva and whichever of the Mitfords I'm fucking..."

"Louis punched fuck out of Schmeling"

"Once I've constructed this lifelike model tableau of me, Eva and whichever of the Mitfords I'm fucking"

I may have said this before.
my Mother overheard my Grandmother say if the Nazzis ( thats how she pronounced it) marched up southey hill then she would gas the kids.
she was about 9..no wonder she grew up paranoid.

The Louis/Schmeling story is a massive read for anyone who goes trawling for it. Lifelong friends after the fight, Schmeling ended up saving a pair of Jewish children on Kristallnacht and paid for Louis's funeral in 1981. He lived to 99.