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From: "Peter Dunn" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] Kranji War Memorial - Singapore
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:06:46 +1000
In-Reply-To: <20070425100241.77582595468@borg.st.net.au>


Whoops

Had a comma insetad of a full stop in the address:-

http://www.ozatwar.com/jan460.htm

Regards Peter Dunn

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Peter Dunn
> Sent: 25 April 2007 20:03
> To:
> Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] Kranji War Memorial - Singapore
>
> Gidday Leone,
>
> Had a look at your blog. I marched with 460 Squadron here
> today. My late father-in-law Jan Goulevitch was a pilot in
> this Squadron. He flew "G" for George on one mission to Germany:-
>
> http://www.ozatwar.com/jan460,htm
>
>
>
> Regards Peter Dunn
>
> "Australia @ War" CD-R
> http://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwarcd-rom.htm
> Over 680 Mbytes of information and photos about Australia during WW2.
>
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> 460 Squadron RAAF
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > [mailto:] On Behalf Of Leone Fabre
> > Sent: 25 April 2007 18:01
> > To:
> > Subject: [AUS-MIL] Kranji War Memorial - Singapore
> >
> > some of you maybe interested in my experience of the Dawn
> Service at
> > the Kranji War Memorial this morning.
> >
> > It was a very moving experience from the Maori culteral
> group display,
> > to the service, the lone piper, the laying of the wreaths by the
> > various High Commissioners, Heads of Defence Forces from
> everywhere,
> > High School Captains of the International school and even the
> > Australian and NZ Football Club of Singapore thru to the
> usual Gunfire
> > Breakfast!
> >
> > Kranji War Memorial honours the men from Britain,
> Australia, Canada,
> > Sri Lanka, India, Malaya, the Netherlands and New Zealand who gave
> > their lives for freedom in World War II.
> >
> > We were all seated (well not all , but most were seated!!)
> behind the
> > marked graves of 4,000 servicemen who died during the Japanese
> > Occupation that stand in neat rows on manicured lawns.
> Another 24,000
> > names of soldiers and airforce men who died but whose bodies were
> > never recovered are inscribed on
> > 12 columns.
> >
> > There is usually around 7000 people that attend the Dawn Service In
> > Singapore, a bit different to other Dawn Services we have
> experienced
> > either at Maree where there were just FIVE of us, or
> Mallacoota where
> > there were about 50, thru to the ones at Melbourne of around
> > 30,000.....but each and everyone of them are just as
> special to help
> > us all remember the courage, endurance and mateship that are still
> > relevant today that was established on 25 April 1915 when the
> > Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli
> > Peninsula.
> >
> > I have posted a couple of photos taken this morning on my blog. See
> > URL
> > below:
> >
> > regards to all,
> >
> > Leone
> >
> >
> > [ Hi Peter! ]
> >
> > --
> > Leone Fabre
> > 9 Bukit Batok Central Link,
> > #18 - 07, The Jade
> > Singapore 658074
> >
> > mob: (+65) 9231 6053
> > home: (+65) 64 02 62 54
> >
> > http://leonefabre.blogspot.com/
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/leonefabre/sets/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ,
> >
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