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Tony Neville

Tony Neville

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Guys

Been working very very hard on these!!! and with dispatches coming in as well made for a fun week with jet lag!!! red bull red bull!!!

I have loaded up about four films so far to my server for my IT guy to clean and load onto TSTV site.

These are in the normal format and about 10MB each. I have also made some 40 - 60MB versions of the films in HD. These we are going to play with on Monday and see how the server manages with them. For these films you WILL have to have a minimum of a 8MB download speed and a fast enough computer to watch them in HD! if you are on dial up please please do not try and download them as it will say hours to download and then more than likly not happen!

There will be a few films this weekend and more next week. I have donw 18 so far and not even reached the day of the show.

Keep an eye on TSTV for when they are up i expect AM Saturday the 4th!!!

Tony
 
I can't get the OTSN film to download...............
 
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I can't get the OTSN film to download...............
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George,
Have you tried putting fresh hamsters on the wheel inside your computer? :D
Simon

Disclaimer: No Hamsters were harmed in the making of this suggestion.
 
I've actually got two squirrels running on the wheel, one of them must have kicked the stick.................
 
I can,t get mine to work either.
Never had this problem before.
Gary
 
guys

unbeleivable viewing of the Chicago show films to the extent the film crashed!! with 135 people trying to see it at once!

my IT guy is working on it and should be on the go for Sunday night

Tony
 
Guys

Sorry about the blip on the weekend we under estimated the responce to the films and as such did not leave enough download band width on the server to cope!! this has been expanded and you chould all be able to view all films now

Thanks for your support

Tony
 
Thanks Tony; glad it wasn't my squirrels fault.........
 
No George not your Squirrals fault!!!

another bunch of films on last night Hudson allen Studios, John Jenkins and Britains all at OTSN

Have a look

Tony
 
Dear Tony,
Thank you so very much for your kind comments about our scenics. It was a pleasure meeting you at the show. I am sorry to be missing the London show this year, hopefully we will be back with bells on next year!
Again, Thank You!
All the Best,
Ericka

Hudson & Allen Studio
 
Erika,

In the video you said you are from Canada, but you also said your grandfather was in the Wermacht. How did your family end up in Canada?:confused:

Vick:confused:
 
Hello Vick,
Well, that is a long story. My fathers family has been long established in Canada, in the Thamesville/ Chatham area. Part of the battle of the Thames (1813) was fought on what was once family lands. Back in the 1830's the family ran a stagecoach stop/Inn in Thamesville.

My mothers family has moved around at tad more. My Oma (Grandma in German) grew up in Erfurt, Germany. My Opa (Grandpa in German) was from a little town called Illerkirchberg. It is not far from Ulm on the Bavarian border (the Danube flows through it- and as a side note it is anything but blue!!). My Opa, trained as a florist and gardener, was drafted into the army and ended up serving with the 5th Jager Division with horse drawn field artillery (105mm), mostly on the Russian front. I have a number of snapshots of him in his uniform in front of the Russian hovels.

My Oma was a midwife before the war and was a nurse in the German Red Cross and attached to a mobile hospital unit. They meet on the Russian front when my Opa was wounded. My Oma ended up expecting my mother and was sent home to Erfurt. They had tried to get permission to marry but were unable to. My Opa's division was sent west to France in May of 1944. He was actually on leave in June when he heard a rumble in the distance that was D-Day. He was captured a few weeks later and sent to England. He remained a POW until August of 1948.

In autumn of 1948 he was released and he returned home to Germany and found out that his fiance and daughter are behind what is now the Iron Curtain. He was able to get word to my Oma that he was free, and she was able to sneak to the west to meet him. She crossed again so they could be married (they were married for 52 years!). She returned to the east to await papers to relocate her and my mother to the west.

It was during this time in the east that a russian soldier came to her house to take her kitchen curtains (the Russian army did not wear socks, they wore foot wraps, which are just about the same size as a cafe curtain). When he entered the house he tried to rape her. My Oma was doing laundry at the time and poured boiling water on him (she never spoke of this, only to my Mom and Opa). I have always assumed that she must have killed him. She grabbed my mother (who was about 4 years old at the time) and after consulting her brother-in-law decided to flee to the west. My mom can remember hiding in the woods from the "bad men in green", and waiting until the forest animals were moving before they started to move too. Once they got across to the west, they were picked up by an American patrol. One of my moms memories of the Americans was being given a Hershey bar by a black GI... this was the first time she had ever seen an American...and a black man. The next 3 months were spent in a refugee camp until all the paperwork was sorted out and the family was finally united.

With little opportunity in post war Germany my Grandparents decided that they should try to come to America.
Canada, having lost a hefty chunk of the population in the previous 2 wars, was in dire need of farm workers. If you promised to work on a farm for two years you could become a citizen and have your passage from Europe paid for. In 1955 my Opa sailed to Canada... and a year later my mom and Oma followed. They settled along lake Erie where they worked on a farm picking tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries etc.
My Oma studied to be a nurse while my Opa continued on the farm. Some time later my Opa secured a job in the US as a groundskeeper for a wealthy family in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. So they immigrated to the US where my Mom finished high school.
My Mother often went back to Canada to visit friends and on one such visit she met my dad. They married within the year and she moved back to Chatham, Ontario. I was born and raised there until I turned 13, when my parents immigrated to the US (Grosse Pointe, MI).
So, that is how we ended up in Canada and then the US.

Both Oma & Opa have passed on but I do have some great pictures of them during and after the war.
All the Best!
Ericka
 
Hi Ericka,

What a beautifully wonderful and touching story! Thank you so much for sharing it.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat
 
Hello Vick,
Found the pictures! Here are some of the photos from my grandparents.
Here is the info on Opa: Anton Schlegel, born 03-02-1915. Prewar he was drafted and sent to Aalen, Germany to horse training school. During the war he was with the 5th Jager Division. He was in Poland & France but spent most of his time on the eastern front in Russia.

Opa1.jpg

Photo info:
Top row: 1. Russian peasants home, don't know who the soldier is. 2. His winter camp in Russia.
Middle Row: 1. Opa's white horses. 2. Opa on one of his other horses. 3. Opa (on the right) with 2 freinds (unknown).
Bottom row: 1. Opa's gun. 2. Opa at 25 in 1940. 3. Springtime mud in Russia. He said that the tanks couldn't move at all, but the horses could make 3 or 4 km a day in the mud.


Opa2.jpg

Top row: 1. No info. 2. Crossing a river, June 23rd, 1941.
2nd row:1. Brothers three. Carl, Anton (Opa) & Lorenz. 2. His barracks, but I don't know where.
3rd row: 1. 2 brothers, Carl & Anton. 2. Opa holding a colt.
Bottom Row: 1. Jumping in Aalen. 2. No Info.


Opa3.jpg

Top Row: 1. On the left is my Oma (Hildegarde Hedwig Eisenhut Schlegel) in her nurses uniform. I don't know who she is with. 2. Russian peasants home
Middle row: 1. No info. 2. No info, but looking kinda ragged.
Bottom row: 1. My Oma's first husband, they were only married 3 months when he was killed (after being wounded 3 times) 2. German cemetery in Russia. 3. Oma and her first husband 4. A common german army view:rolleyes:, don't know which grandparent took this picture!

All the Best,
Ericka
 
WOW! What an amazing story Erika, so you en

That is one incredible story, all I have to tell is about my great granddad who is also deceased lived in West Michigan Grand Rapids area, and during the depression hopped on freight trains from Michigan to California and back, riding on the top. I forget how close you fellas on the east side of the state are so close to Canada. My father grew up on the east side and they were:eek: able to get Canadian television.

Oh Canada!
Vick:D:p
 
Lewey Gun Vick said:
WOW! What an amazing story Erika, so you en

That is one incredible story, all I have to tell is about my great granddad who is also deceased lived in West Michigan Grand Rapids area, and during the depression hopped on freight trains from Michigan to California and back, riding on the top. I forget how close you fellas on the east side of the state are so close to Canada. My father grew up on the east side and they were:eek: able to get Canadian television.

Oh Canada!
Vick:D:p
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Hi Vick,
We too were able to pick up American TV if the wind was blowing the right way and the rabbit ears had enough tin foil!
At the cottage on lake Erie we could listen to Buffalo radio and sometimes get their TV.
All the Best,
Ericka
 
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