Hello

Hi this looks to be the place to start .I am a rather keen ww2 and ww1 fanatic
With a passion for medals in particular RAAF, RAF,RCAF and RNZAF . I was in the RAAF for 12 years some years ago now.
Cheers AJ

 

Welcome DFC,
I am sure you will enjoy this site.

Cheers
GW

 

Welcome aboard, DFC. I look forward to your posts. Whose cluster is that in your avatar?

 

Watcha AJ, welcome to the forum

 

Welcome to the forum DFC.

Glad to have you aboard.

I collect the headstones/memorial photos of all RAAF deaths in WW2. See my signature below!

 

Hi DFC welcome to the forum

 

Welcome to the forum AJ, and I hope you enjoy your time here.
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Hi yes its a group to Sqn leader later Air Commodore John Sheffield a Canadian navigator/pilot on wellingtons and Lancasters ww2 and on to NATO service entitled to Canadian centenary medal and UN MEDAL and second bar to CD decoration medal retired 1979 .I need to get a slightly bigger pic,one of my favorite groups
Thanks AJ

 

Thanks to everybody for the warm welcome .I am starting to work out my first lot of questions
thanks AJ

 

Hi just getting my signature right

 

Is that not the 8th battalion ww1 patch minus the A in middle for Gallipoli
Cheers Tony

 

Hi Tony,

You are correct.

8th Battalion: Australian War Memorial

They are the same:

One is the 8th Battalion in WW1 which was part of 2nd Brigade

My dads is the "2nd/8th" part of 19th Brigade of the 2nd AIF

Cheers

Geoff

 

A little on the WW1 8th Battalion

Cheers

Geoff