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24 April: Kapyong Day (Korea, 1951) The battle started a few days earlier in Chinese "push', but the decisive action mostly took place on the 24th. Lots of Lee Enfields, Brens, Vickers etc.
25 April: ANZAC Day, of course.
Skip a couple of days.
29 April: HMA Submarine AE2 sunk in the Sea of Marmara off the Dardanelles. After five days of attacking Turkish shipping and running out of torpedoes, AE2 was attacked by Turkish gunboats and the submarine was scuttled and her crew captured.
My first regiment was there, 2 P.P.C.L.I., along with 3 R.A.R. and 72nd US heavy tank battalion. I had occasion to speak to an R.A.R. vet at Enoggera Barracks in 1977, was the bartender of the Junior Ranks Mess... Yes, lots of .303 was used as well as cases of #36M grenades. Bayonets too...one of our men won an MM for bravery when he rose out of his hole to fight off the attackers with a #4 and bayonet. Their reasoning was, the days of bayonet engagement had gone in the first war...interesting. Too, he was under arty at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz
A defining moment for Stone and the PPCLI great reading about it, if it were an American tale they would have made a movie about it long ago.