WWl. I don't believe this!!

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Useless design, but a Holly Grail for Canadian Militaria collectors !

Oh sh*t! I have seen one of these at a Passchendaele farm.
This was among several items that a farmer friend was showing a buddy and me.
I actually had one of those shovels in my hand, and no, it was not a rust hole.

I passed on it for an exploded 18 pounder that I found in his field.

I have toured these areas several times. I follow the path of my Father's Uncle
Charles Arthur Parkes who was with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles 1914-17.
Medically discharged upon being gassed at Vimy in 1917.

I will be returning this Sept.
I will drop by my friend the farmer once again in Passchendaele.

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[QUOTE=wireless_wpn;110406]Oh sh*t! I have seen one of these at a Passchendaele farm.
This was among several items that a farmer friend was showing a buddy and me.
I actually had one of those shovels in my hand, and no, it was not a rust hole.

I passed on it for an exploded 18 pounder that I found in his field.

I have toured these areas several times. I follow the path of my Father's Uncle
Charles Arthur Parkes who was with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles 1914-17.
Medically discharged upon being gassed at Vimy in 1917.


Get me one also. Since I started the thread. I will pay postage etc. Well, I can hope can't I? Please be real careful out there, some of those olds things, still bite!!!

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some of those olds things, still bite!!!

Yes, I do know what you mean.
I stay away from things that look that they have life left in them.

We get permission and look.
I have been to these areas many times over the years.

I dang near could set up a small museum in my home.
I have met and been along with "Digger's" a group from Belgium.

I could go on for hours about the area.

It is one of my loves of life. (touring and researching Battlefields)