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  1. 15th April 2016, 08:53 AM #1
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    ANZAC DAY.

    What is everybody doing on Anzac Day this year????

    I will be attending the dawn service at Cardiff RSL and having breakfast there.

    Afterwards, I will be heading up to Fort Scratchley in Newcastle. They will be having various displays there for the public to view and will be firing the 6" guns at pre arranged times. On display will be a WW2 era Jeep, a Series 2 LandRover, a Mk3 International Harvester truck and Studebaker WW2 era left hand drive truck among the many displays there.

    I will be there dressed in 1960's era "jungle greens" military uniform. Unfortunately I don't fit into it like I used to when I served in the 1960's, a bulge here and a bump there. I will be near the 40mm Mk 12 Bristol Bofor anti-aircraft gun,as I served as a Gun Sargent on these and I will be telling interested people all about them. We recently obtained the Bofor and it is in full working order and in original condition. We intend to work on the gun and give it a thorough overhaul after Anzac Day. This includes repainting and equipping the gun to fire in a lifelike manner using a mixture of gas injected into the the rear of the barrel.

    If you are visiting Fort Scratchley, please come up to me and say "G'Day", I would love to meet anybody from this Forum.

    As I am a member of the Fort Scratchley Historical Society I include a link to their site......

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    Thanks Jim. We'll be going to the Cenotaph in Martin Place for the Dawn Service and I'll have just come off my last Night of the Shift, so I'll probably go to bed after the Service.
    If you're doing the same next year It sounds like a fun option.
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    Don't know what's happening next year Billy. Hopefully we will have the gun looking like new and firing with the gas modifications.

    ps. When you watch a war movie and you see machine guns firing, they are using the gas gun modification. It is so life like, the only thing is, there will be no recoil.
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    I'll be marching with our school cadet unit at the town service.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ausfree View Post
    Don't know what's happening next year Billy. Hopefully we will have the gun looking like new and firing with the gas modifications.
    If it is, can I have a go? I can justice myself downing a Zero or two.
    Cheers, Billy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cuppabillytea View Post
    If it is, can I have a go? I can justice myself downing a Zero or two.
    Get in line, I'm first!!!
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    Dawn service at ANZAC Hill here in Alice Springs , then the main service at 11.

    wonder if the good clobber will fit.
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    Dawn Service in Doncaster RSL then a pub then a march with some boys at a big place in Melbourne A mate now a police person dragged me in last year. When I say boys I mean boys Tingira Australia

    Sure I must still be 15
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    Hey Jim.
    You just reminded me.
    Last weekend there was one of those aussie travel shows,cant remember wich one.
    Anyhow they had Fort Scratchley on,they let the presenter fire the cannon.
    You werent one of the 2 dirty old men perving on her bum whilst she fired the cannon were you
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    Quote Originally Posted by LandyAndy View Post
    Hey Jim.
    You just reminded me.
    Last weekend there was one of those aussie travel shows,cant remember wich one.
    Anyhow they had Fort Scratchley on,they let the presenter fire the cannon.
    You werent one of the 2 dirty old men perving on her bum whilst she fired the cannon were you
    Andrew
    Wish I was Andrew, but I am not part of the people who maintain and operate the 6" guns. I was brought in to assist with the 40mm Bofor. We have various, shall I say "departments" at the fort where volunteers maintain and operate the exhibits that interest them.

    ps. The society had a problem, they managed after a lot of wrangling to obtain this Bofor and then they had the problem of nobody there having experience on them, after all its been 50 years since the Australian Army used them. We are now trying to contact other ex-Bofor people and it looks like we might have found another one with the experience, which makes my job easier.
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