Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

I thought being Fully Time Navy at 15 was cool for a yarn - I was old compared to this legend



In May of 1861, 9 year old John Lincoln “Johnny” Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio, to join the Union Army, but found the Army was not interested in signing on a 9 year old boy when the commander of the 3rd Ohio Regiment told him he “wasn’t enlisting infants,” and turned him down. Clem tried the 22nd Michigan Regiment next, and its commander told him the same. Determined, Clem tagged after the regiment, acted out the role of a drummer boy, and was allowed to remain. Though still not regularly enrolled, he performed camp duties and received a soldier’s pay of $13 a month, a sum collected and donated by the regiment’s officers.

The next April, at Shiloh, Clem’s drum was smashed by an artillery round and he became a minor news item as “Johnny Shiloh, The Smallest Drummer”. A year later, at the Battle Of Chickamauga, he rode an artillery caisson to the front and wielded a musket trimmed to his size. In one of the Union retreats a Confederate officer ran after the cannon Clem rode with, and yelled, “Surrender you damned little Yankee!” Johnny shot him dead. This pluck won for Clem national attention and the name “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.”
Clem stayed with the Army through the war, served as a courier, and was wounded twice. Between Shiloh and Chickamauga he was regularly enrolled in the service, began receiving his own pay, and was soon-after promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He was only 12 years old. After the Civil War he tried to enter West Point but was turned down because of his slim education. A personal appeal to President Ulysses S. Grant, his commanding general at Shiloh, won him a 2nd Lieutenant’s appointment in the Regular Army on 18 December 1871, and in 1903 he attained the rank of Colonel and served as Assistant Quartermaster General. He retired from the Army as a Major General in 1916, having served an astounding 55 years.
General Clem died in San Antonio, Texas on 13 May 1937, exactly 3 months shy of his 86th birthday, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
And to think…today’s kids need a safe space to cry in.

Poms are all White ? Science suggest they have been more multicultural for longer than you may have thought

"Archaeologists have been revealing the ethnic diversity of the crew on the Mary Rose using human remains from Henry VIII's warship. The ship sank in 1545, but the wreck, 19,000 artefacts and the remains of 179 crew members were recovered in 1982.
Cardiff University has been analysing the bones to find out their origins and they believe some sailors may have come from as far as southern Europe and Africa."


Fully yarn

[QUOTE=NavyDiver;3096177]More access to fresh red crays in South Oz Des. Your allowed two pots mate. not BEER pots The Cray ones . Beer goes well after with the tails Over here I am luck as you really need wet work to get them. Hoop nets in day time are not a high success rate which is probably why they are allowed to waste peoples time.


Southern Rock Lobster -

PIRSA

I am supposed to be Diving to my bunk on the Ex HMAS Hobart. If I do I will grab a bag of crays and share one of each with you. She is sleeping south of Adelaide.

If you like getting wet you can come and grab them yourself. I hear the Great Whites are usually elsewhere! [/Chicken. Mode on)

That is interesting James, now you'll be able to recover all those stick books hidden under your bunk you didn't have time to remove b4 she was scuttled. bloody I-pad😡😡! although they Probably would be drier than b4 if you get my drift?😂 Eating a cray may put me on the endangered ,list thanks all the same. ( /chicken mode off) As you can tell I'm on an l-pad bloody difficult it is. It may even make more sense than my normal posts 😤😂😐😐😐🤣

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Poms are all White ? Science suggest they have been more multicultural for longer than you may have thought

"Archaeologists have been revealing the ethnic diversity of the crew on the Mary Rose using human remains from Henry VIII's warship. The ship sank in 1545, but the wreck, 19,000 artefacts and the remains of 179 crew members were recovered in 1982.
Cardiff University has been analysing the bones to find out their origins and they believe some sailors may have come from as far as southern Europe and Africa."


Fully yarn

Not surprised, the RN, as was would have pressed ganged/shanghied
all sorts
to man it's ships.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Not surprised, the RN, as was would have pressed ganged/shanghied
all sorts
to man it's ships.

I wonder if any of the new 'recruits' were invited below to view the 'golden rivet'.

DL

I have it on reliable authority that Navy Divers are the eccentric branch of all Services, both military and civilian.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I have it on reliable authority that Navy Divers are the eccentric branch of all Services, both military and civilian.

we have that proof right here don't we? 😂😎😇.
Bugger, there goes. Me cray.😇😳

Organisers are hoping to thwart amorous athletes at the Olympic village by installing cardboard 'anti-sex' beds, designed to only support the weight of a single person.

There's a weightlifting 'clean and jerk' joke here somewhere

160k condoms ‘not for use’


Hate to tell them I suspect the usual massive condom use at Olympics is not going to be over come by the beds and hiding the condoms. Where there is a will there is a way

Rabbiting? Navy term for 'Tea Leaf's which is a term for removing with out full authorization
I suspect a few of those recycled "Tokyo 2020" doonas might find away out as well. A classic collectors item .