Villers Bretonneux. (1 Viewer)

[waynepoo]

Australian infantry retake Villers Bretonneux April 1918.
Wayne.

 

[wayne556517]

Always rely on the Aussie mate.

 

[Jack]

I had morning tea with the Mayor some years back!

 

[waynepoo]

I had morning tea with the Mayor some years back!

Why am I not surprised at that..you remind of me the song 'I've been everywhere man'........:wink2:

Always rely on the Aussie mate.

Mate...of course, goes without saying......:wink2:
Wayne.

 

[Guy]

Wayne, they've just missed the Germans. I saw them advancing on the TG forum exactly on the same spot at Bretonneux.
guy{sm4}

 

[OzDigger]

Nice pics Wayne, any chance of a WW2 Villers-Bocage dio :wink2:

 

[TomNT]

That backdrop looks familiar mate...:wink2: Your latest is a cracker, especially with all the barney rubble lying around!^&grin

Tom

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Very Cool ^&cool Wayne :salute::

 

[waynepoo]

Wayne, they've just missed the Germans. I saw them advancing on the TG forum exactly on the same spot at Bretonneux.
guy{sm4}

Nice pics Wayne, any chance of a WW2 Villers-Bocage dio :wink2:

That backdrop looks familiar mate...:wink2: Your latest is a cracker, especially with all the barney rubble lying around!^&grin

Tom

Very Cool ^&cool Wayne :salute::

Thanks guys.
Wayne.

 

[Obee]

Wayne,

I love your conversion to AIF especailly seeing the white over blue circular shoulder patch of 48th Battalion. (well it sure looks like that to me!)

My uncle was in with that unit in that battle on ANZAC Day 1918 when the town was liberated from the Germans.

An 18 year old kid from Fremantle, he is still there in V-B, didn't make it home in August when the last big push came!

Adelaide Cemetery Plot 3 Row I Grave 15 Villers Bretonneux - FRANCE

LEST WE FORGET

 

[Simpson & his donkey.]

Good work Wayne, I always look to see what you are doing. Simmo.{sm4}

 

[waynepoo]

Wayne,

I love your conversion to AIF especailly seeing the white over blue circular shoulder patch of 48th Battalion. (well it sure looks like that to me!)

My uncle was in with that unit in that battle on ANZAC Day 1918 when the town was liberated from the Germans.

An 18 year old kid from Fremantle, he is still there in V-B, didn't make it home in August when the last big push came!

Adelaide Cemetery Plot 3 Row I Grave 15 Villers Bretonneux - FRANCE

LEST WE FORGET

Obee,
Thanks mate, the conversion is actually the 46th Battalion yellow over blue easy to mistake as in the pics it does look white. I did the 46th as it was the Battalion one of my uncles was part of and he also didn't return and is buried in the Underhill Farm Cemetery Belgium as he was killed at Ypres in 1917.

 

[Jack]

Obee,
Thanks mate, the conversion is actually the 46th Battalion yellow over blue easy to mistake as in the pics it does look white. I did the 46th as it was the Battalion one of my uncles was part of and he also didn't return and is buried in the Underhill Farm Cemetery Belgium as he was killed at Ypres in 1917.

Not to make light of it Wayne, but Underhill Farm Cemetery is another place that I have visited.

 

[waynepoo]

Not to make light of it Wayne, but Underhill Farm Cemetery is another place that I have visited.

Again I am not the least bit surprised, if in the most unlikely chance I ever win the lotto I will hire you as a battlefield tour guide (and bag carrier..:wink2.
Wayne.

 

[TomNT]

Again I am not the least bit surprised, if in the most unlikely chance I ever win the lotto I will hire you as a battlefield tour guide (and bag carrier..:wink2.
Wayne.

If you need another person Wayne, i'll put my hand up as the limo driver....^&grin

Tom

 

[Rob]

Wayne, I'm running out of new words for great work mate, how about, I like this very much my friend!{bravo}}

Rob

 

[Northgate Woods]

Obee,
Thanks mate, the conversion is actually the 46th Battalion yellow over blue easy to mistake as in the pics it does look white. I did the 46th as it was the Battalion one of my uncles was part of and he also didn't return and is buried in the Underhill Farm Cemetery Belgium as he was killed at Ypres in 1917.

VICTORIAN.^&grin

 

[waynepoo]

VICTORIAN.^&grin

Nice try Howard, yes it was a Victorian battalion at start of the war but it was a all Australian battalion by the end of the war, my uncle was a born and bred West Australian God bless him...:smile2:
Wayne.

 

[AIDMAN]

Another case of less is more!!!!....A few figures, some rubble, a piece of a bomb damaged building, add a backdrop, and you have a great
little dio....NICE...!!

Steve

 

[waynepoo]

Another case of less is more!!!!....A few figures, some rubble, a piece of a bomb damaged building, add a backdrop, and you have a great
little dio....NICE...!!

Steve

Thanks Steve.
Wayne.