Great little anecdote involving the L42 i just read

[Kiwisteve]

Cool little story, I enjoy reading war anecdotes such as this .

If I remember correctly from High School, that would be Macbeth which you have
quoted Surpmil.

Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.

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[Surpmil]

Cool little story, I enjoy reading war anecdotes such as this .

If I remember correctly from High School, that would be Macbeth which you have
quoted Surpmil.

Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.

Be it for good or ill, what's learned young is not forgot!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

When you go home
Tell them of us and say,
For their tomorrow,
We gave our today.

Inscription on the monument of the British Second Division on Garrison Hill at Kohima, India, commemorating the 17,587 British casualties at the Battle of Kohima, 5th April - 30th May 1944

Source ~ The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations Edited By Peter G Tsouras ISBN- 18536875865 (This is a great addition to any library I often refer to it at times)

Funny I was just reading about the Burma theatre last night and the various ups and downs of the campaign. Seems to have wrecked a few careers, rightly or wrongly. Aung San not quite the hero some people would like to think him...innumerable factions and tribes...Stillwell...messy! Wingate, Churchill's Wolfe? (Geo.III on Wolfe: "Mad is he? Then I wish he would bite some of my other generals!")

That memorial was mentioned and the fact that it derives from the famous Spartan memorial at Thermopylae. Struck me that they gave more in their tomorrows than their "todays".