You must remember that this thread is a series of day by day reports as published in the TIMES DIARY & INDEX OF THE WAR 1914-1918. It is a facsimile reprint of the original and the detail presented is not necessarily a complete report of the day's actions. The size of the published report is 3 t...

It arrived as scheduled this morning and we shot it this afternoon. Exceptional grouping..............

Butty Not to be confused with a sandwich, a butty is formed by folding a single slice of buttered bread around whatever takes your fancy and is readily available (i.e. requiring no further preparation). In its purest form a true butty is filled with ingredients, in any combination, from a meal alrea...

Well, hopefully my SMLE is now in Chaterault and should arrive tomorrow at about 11:30 a.m. I have 5 rounds loaded and ready to try...............( Also 100 cases ready to load BUT first, have your rifle and try a small sample. ) The plan is to go to the range in Merignac for 14:00 and try it out -...

Welcome to the site Juan, hope you enjoy your visits. There is a lot of information on here.
Sundays some of us have a Skype conference call around 4pm EST if you are interested. Current team includes;
Alabama, Florida, France (me) , Scotland & Canada.

A man walks into the confessional box in Paris and says father I have sinned. What is your sin my son asks the priest. I have been hiding a resistance fighter from the germans father. That is not a sin my son that is the work of a brave man. But father i have been charging him 50 Francs a week to hi...

Everybody knows how much the Guardian...British...like the French. Maybe they photo shopped the mistake to cover for the French who beat that dastardly upstart pipsqueak countries team that licked them in a game of soccer. :bigsmile: You can't Photoshop live video and i saw it live on French TV.......

Next stage was to set up a plate to take some .303 British using small inserts of BluTack.
60 now ready to coat.

And before you say it Vern, they got the White smoke right

Two french cock ups yesterday at the Bastille Day parade in Paris....... Two gendarmes involved in a complex motorbike ballet with horsemen from the Republic Guard crashed into each other within yards of Mr Macron. Screen Shot 07-15-18 at 10.05 AM.JPG Screen Shot 07-15-18 at 10.03 AM.JPG In one of t...

Originator of the message always dictates the protocols used because you don't know who the ranking person would be and anyway, that would be irrelevant

On this side of the pond we just said "Fire mission....over."................. :mrgreen: . 'Over' in British Army W.T. means I want a reply from you. Not necessary as you are only confirming you are in contact. Wait - out means that there will be further reports so keep listening but don'...

You should know that Robert.

Patrol radio report - I have contact with the enemy - keep listening - out.............

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Well, I just tried to set up Teamspeak and although the blurb says it is easy I would find it easier to design and build an intergalactic space ship from scratch.

Need to look again...........