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[Rob]

Sorry guys i am useless on the pc and don't post links.However if you go to the BBC news website today there is a story about how someone has just discovered a bag belonging to a despatch rider in the LRDG lying in the desert more than sixty years after he dropped it.It is full of his letters and personal stuff and and has been successfully traced to family members,the guy himself passed away in 2004.All those years just lying in the desert.Makes you wonder what else is out there?.

Rob

 

[vandilay]

Hey Rob ,is this it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7118650.stm

 

[Harrytheheid]

Sorry guys i am useless on the pc and don't post links.However if you go to the BBC news website today there is a story about how someone has just discovered a bag belonging to a despatch rider in the LRDG lying in the desert more than sixty years after he dropped it.It is full of his letters and personal stuff and and has been successfully traced to family members,the guy himself passed away in 2004.All those years just lying in the desert.Makes you wonder what else is out there?.

Rob

I dropped a packet of Embassy Regal in the Western Desert around 1998. Hope I eventually get it back, but seeing as there were only about 3 left.......

Vive La Belle France
Henri-La-Tete

 

[Rob]

Hey Rob ,is this it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7118650.stm

Thanks Rob.

Rob

 

[Combat]

I saw the KC LRDG version yesterday for the first time and was really impressed. It not a vehicle that I am interested in, but the quality is top notch and demonstrates some of the recent improvements.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Great article. For those who are not familiar with the group he was serving with, "Popski's Army", it is named for a Polish National in service with the British named Peniafski, who had a whole series of native spies behind British lines gathing intel on Rommel's forces. The LRDG acted as a "taxi service" for Peniafski and his agents. William B. Kennedy Shah's excellent book on the LRDG provides a very admiring account of "Popski" and his men.

Rob,

If I remember correctly there was a LRDG 30 cwt Chevy in the Imperial War museum that had been similarly found in the Libyan desert in the '70's or '80's after having run out of gas and being abandoned during the war. When I saw it two things stood out to me - most obviously, it shined like it was made of chrome because the sand storms had blasted all the paint off, and except for the tires being dried up, it looked like you could fill the tank with gas and drive it out of the museum.

 

[Rob]

Its still there my friend,lovely vehicle.I'm not 100% sure if its true or not, but legend has it that when it was found in the 70's they put oil and petrol in her and with very little effort she started up!.Theres craftsmanship.

Rob

 

[Capitolron]

What a COOL story - wow, thats really interesting !