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Ron's Photo Album Index (as on 3-07-04)

I do believe I've finally managed to find a photo for every article I've submitted !.
Listed below are all of my entries PLUS the images that are now attached.

1. Ron's Grand Tour (2156564)
A Map of my travels, courtesy of Ron Tee of 56 Recce
2. Five Sons, all serving in H.M.Forces (A2025028)
A montage of the five Goldstein boys in uniform
3. Waiting to be called up (A2416268)
My father's factory in London showing Dad,Jack,Lou and I
4. Early Army Days,October 1942 (A2176616)
A page from my AB64 Part 1 showing innoculations
5. Training to be a Driver/Wireless Operator (A2065853)
My first Army photo, taken at Whitby, aged 19
6. Not my worst night, by any means (A1996860)
Studio photo taken in Egypt
7. A Driver/Op in Light Ack Ack (A2077274)
The No.19 wireless set, type used by myself both in the LAA and the 4th QOH
8. Sicily, then on to Italy (A2370674)
Street photo taken in Bari, Sept 1943
9. Monte Cassino, March to May 1944 (A2293616)
My old friend Larry and the Seder service we attended together
10. Two weeks in dock in Naples.... (A2274761)
My Army album, still around after 60 years
11. The 78th Div goes to Egypt to re-fit and re-form (A2515475)
The Pyramids, I'm on the 3rd Camel from the right
12. Day leave in Rome (A1941383)
Street photo in Rome, 21st June 1944
13. Transformation from Gunner to Trooper (A2601839)
Pete Burns, myself and Ken Atkinson at Rieti
14. Joining the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (A2310003)
'A' Sdrn. Official Photo, Austria 1945
15. German Propaganda Leaflets (A2297333)
One of seven leaflets in my Army Album
16. The day my brother Mick nearly killed me (A2352647)
Mick and I on AJEX parade, 1992
17. Diary entries 11th April 1945 (A2017630)
Me and my Bren Gun Carrier at Trieste
18. The day I should have died (A2513134)
Four diary entries in April '45
19. The War ends in Italy, 2nd May 1945 (A2039113)
On guard at our POW camp at Ferndorf
20. VE Day, as seen from a field near Venice (A2324189)
Myself and the Clock Tower in Venice
21. Keeping a Diary in Wartime (A2509021)
4 more Diary entries for August '44
22. Jun ’45 Danke Herr Mix! (A2072350)
1936 photos of my billets and German troops
23. Life in wartime Austria (A2545517)
Me and captured German Army vehicle
24. Running a staging camp in Germany August 1945 (A2062513)
A page from my album showing Ulm Cathedral
25. Oct ’45 Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947 (A2166130)
Myself on a mine-sweeper in Trieste Harbour
26. My Welcome Home (A2072477)
The train bringing me home from Austria
27. Getting your Army Records (A2098000)
One typical page showing 'charge' detail
28. Army Transport (A2611937)
Myself on a Norton Motor Byke
29. Stick it in your Army....Album! (A2612567)
A montage, including currency and medals

Hello Ron,
Well done you have the record.
Talk about uniformity we all looked very much of a sameness in those shapeless clothes yet thought ourselves Peacocks.
I do remember being the cock of the north when we got an issue of Canadian battle dress and shirts when I was transferred from Infantry to REME. It only lasted until I arrived in Port Said then it was back to scratchy stuff again.
I am still working out what that truck was in Austria it looks like a MAN but could be Skoda derivative.
Oh well it will be in a museum now like everything else I drove.
Feeling my age today Ron, must be the lousy weather.
Regards Frank.

Hi Frank
One day, when I have time, , I will work out when all of us wierdies go on net to 'chat' to each other. Take me, for instance (did I hear Tom say 'Yes Please!')
My routine is fairly constant.
I wake at 4.30, am usually up by 5.00 and breakfast by 6.00
The time is now 0645.
I have had breakfast and am just about to do my constitutional which consists of a 3 mile brisk walk in Trent Park which is just 12 minutes away from my home.
In deference to she who must be obeyed I never, or rarely, touch the computer between 6pm and midnight (turning in time).
This morning I will return to the computer at about 9 am and will browse for about an hour or so.
Three days a week I go out to spend a few hours with
1. A friend, to whom I'm teaching computer tactics
2. Another friend who is house-bound
3. A charity for which I enter stuff on their database.
I also act as a help-line for various friends who get stuck with various problems.
All in all, the day is never long enough particularly when the company is so good.
We will talk more another time
Regards
Ron

Hello Ron,
Date Time: 04/07/04 11:52 up here in the land of the midnight sun. Well we have seen the Aurora Borealis on clear nights.
It is raining and the job list is all outdoor so I am on and here is the routine which would on normal days be as follows.
Awaken around 07:30 shower and have a slice of porridge duly enhanced with treacle and cream from a rock like to a more malleable consistency even though I have my own teeth.
My Westy Benji then lines me up in the direction of the door and we disappear no matter what the weather for at least one hour usually more in the summer. It is a social event where we often walk in groups discussing the merits of various dog foods for the front entry and doggy bags for the rear exit.
We discuss the world events and sometimes fight off unwanted attention from the Amorous Widow
or a rather happy or is that gay chappy, well he is always smiling! at the men?
So to the list which is endless prepared by Her Who Shall Be Obeyed.
Lunch time sandwich and the computer while I check out the e-mail and answer the many I get from distant members of the family and friends in other parts of the world.
I at odd times get to check the site.
More from the endless list plus Tomato plants needing TLC another long walk with my rear guard Benji.
Then sometime after three if I am lucky I get to read and browse the site until my Son comes in from work and takes over the computer until midnight.
By that time I need my beauty sleep so the time on here in summer is very sparse. Winter the Wife's list can go on the back burner so I do get more time for the machine only I have Computer School.
There are also Daughters requiring my services as child minder school run operative odd job man and oftime cook come bottle washer.
I hope to retire in around ten years time and take it easy for the period up to the Queens telegram year, by my reckoning I will have earned it.

Ron.
My Granddaughter Rachael is in America helping at Summer School in a Jewish camp. She mailed me today and said she has learned a lot of the prayers already, if she does not say them with the kids they will not say them. She is of course Gentile, there is hope for the world Ron a far cry from our time.
Regards Frank.