June RSL Monthly Newsletter

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Angeles City Sub Branch Philippines www.rslangelescity.com ‘Lest We Forget’ President Vice Presidents Secretary Treasurer

James Curtis-Smith Noel Roach Vivien Hart Dallas Drake Bob Young

Editor

Larry Smith

Email address’:

Clubhouse: Ponderosa Hotel president@rslangelescity.com

secretary@rslangelescity.com treasurer@rslangelescity.com

editor@rslangelescity.com

Newsletter # 39 ** June 2010

PRESIDENTS REPORT –June 2010 The 5th June last saw resumption of our Children‘s Medical Missions at Mabiga in Mabalacat and although we didn‘t have record numbers, several hundred children were examined by doctors and graduate nurses giving of their time and received medicines free from this Sub Branch. Two children received wheel chairs, both being permanently and severely disabled from cerebral palsy. One young girl has been referred to a neurologist. She is aged about 19 and has gone blind over the last couple of years and is now losing balance and has difficulty in standing and her movements. It is thought that maybe she has a brain tumour, which hopefully can be removed and her sight and balance returned.

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Our next mission is at Sapang Bato on July 3 and more details will be published on this web page when final details have been worked out. My thanks go to the many members who present themselves to assist at the missions and I hope this can continue.

We have resumed dialogue with Operation Smiles now that the problems we had have been removed. Again more details will appear on the web page soon.

More members returning to Australia on visa runs and for medical reasons, and hopefully some returning soon. Our social activities on Tuesday afternoons continue and we are in the process of settling a roster of business houses who give us support as preferred sites to visit over the year. The locations appear each month in the Blue Book and soon will be posted on our web site.

I have reported before on the complex and difficult ways of dealing with estates of particularly foreigners who pass away leaving estates in the Philippines. Just discovered that should the estate comprise assets which require BIR clearances, eg bank accounts, then to get a clearance, it will be necessary to pay a Death Duty on the assets. Death Duty is payable on all assets even if no BIR clearance is required. Filipinos get a first Php 2 million exemption, but foreigners do not and duty is payable on the first peso of any asset value located in the Philippines. Please look carefully at your succession planning and seek advice before your time comes, so that those you leave behind are not faced with long delays and heavy taxes and legal costs and fees..

That‘s it for the month.

JAMES E. CURTIS-SMITH

We welcome the following new members: William Hall (A/C) * Ines Santos (A/C) * Kim Barron (A/C) * Robert Rixon (Guggug) * Barry McCormick (NSW) * Salvasion Cardino (A/C) * Thomas Hanton (A/C) * Location Code: A/C * Guggug * = Philippines * NSW = Australia

PHOTO’S TO GAIN DISCOUNTS Here is an opportunity too good to miss. It will be painless and be to your advantage.

Below is an email sent to Secretary Dallas from Amie at Kokomo‟s: Hi Dallas, Kokomo’s Group is giving out VIP cards to RSL members. Please email me some pictures of your current members so I can give them cards with 20% discount in our 4 establishments (Roadhouse, Angel Witch, King of Diamonds and Voodoo), Kokomo’s restaurant and hotel rooms.

Amie So there you go fella’s, see Dallas and get your pic taken and you can get an ID to enjoy Kokomo’s offer. Ed

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JUST A REMINDER ………..

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Why don’t you rock on down to The BRASS KNOB before 1.00pm on the 22nd of June (go a bit early and have a cold SML) and Richard Giles will

allocate you a seat on his bus service →→→→ and take you to Manila. In Manila you will be

handed over to Lindsay Drury and staff and given a room at the ↓↓↓

where the following service will be provided:

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A drink card will be issued to members on arrival that will include 2 X complimentary standard drinks.

1 X dinner special (Chicken Cordon Blu’) on the night of 22nd.

1 X standard breakfast.

TOTAL COST is ₱2,900.

The purpose of the trip to Manila is to attend a Sub Branch meeting that will be held in MNL prior to the bus trip back to Angeles City on the 23rd. Why not use this trip as a break from the missus/GF/meaningful overnight relationship.

Dallas needs the 50% down-payment by the monthly meeting on 15th June.

Administrative matters: There are many Membership Cards now at the Front Desk of Ponderosa !!! So many in fact the TWO Boxes to hold Members mail, are FULL. (thanks Bones for making them for us).

Members who DO NOT have the Card with map of Australia (2010 cards) are requested to collect them at the Reception of Ponderosa Hotel, (this meeting Tuesday will be a good opportunity).

Australia Day Fiesta 2011.

Members who wish to be part of a NEW Committee for the 2011 Fiesta may register their interest with secretary@rslangelescity.com , previous experience not necessary.

Note this will be our TENTH Anniversary for Australia Day Fiesta.

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�LEFT is photographic proof that our shirts are really global.

Here are 13 members of Beenleigh RSL Sub Branch (south of Brisbane) posing outside wearing our latest Australia Day shirts. One of our members, Ray Bennett did the shirt delivery and took the picture as proof. Secretary Dallas reckons they are a fine body of men.

Thanks Ray. NOTE. Anyone who wishes to order our shirts can do so by contacting Dallas via our Website. Of course, you can book a holiday up in the Philippines and buy a shirt direct from our stocks. Ed

Jackpot: struggling clubs find an ace up their sleeves KELSEY MUNRO URBAN AFFAIRS May 17, 2010 New lease of life...Newtown RSL club will be converted into a boutique hotel and a small club after failing to turn a profit as a nightspot.

Photo: Wolter Peeters Struggling to remain relevant and profitable in the face of demographic changes and plummeting revenue, RSL clubs are looking to exploit their major asset: property.

After the closure of 31 of the state’s RSL clubs in the past decade, five Sydney clubs have done deals with developers to build apartments, offices, shops and even aged care accommodation; usually with a smaller club thrown in as part of the deal.

5 Don Rowe, the president of RSL NSW, said clubs were diversifying but remaining within the spirit and traditions of the league. Yet the opening up of these strategically located sites is a boon for developers but a concern for neighbours.

←←What the Newtown RSL development will look like.

“Quite a few of these clubs are asset rich but they’re trading poorly,” says Bob Maddison, who is overseeing the redevelopment of the Redfern RSL. “That’s the driver behind them; getting in and turning something around. The big clubs are going OK but the little ones are dying.’’

The Redfern RSL was a featureless brown box fronting a busy road near the station, but work has started on a $28 million project to turn it into an 18-storey residential tower, with shops, offices and a small club.

And there are plans to replace Marrickville RSL with a $36 million, five- to sevenstorey development of 180 apartments and shops. Newtown RSL will be converted into a boutique hotel and a small club after failing to turn a profit as a nightspot.

Dee Why RSL, seen as an innovator in clubland, is building a 76-apartment retirement village nearby. And the struggling Bronte RSL, the Herald revealed last month, is to be sold to a private developer with plans to build a new club and a multi-storey aged-care facility.

Redfern RSL was sold to the developer, but the club retains ownership of the second floor strata on completion.

Newtown RSL plans to act simply as landlord to the hotel business. The booming Dee Why RSL is the exception, owning and operating the retirement village.

“We tried to align the new interests with the original charter,’’ said Grant Easterby, CEO of Dee Why RSL. ‘’The cheapest, maximum profit for us would be to whack up units and move on, but as a registered club that’s not what we do.”

Members are not always happy about clubs changing, nor are existing residents who see the club as a community facility rather than an opportunity for developer profit.

“No one objects to the provision of genuine aged-care Visit Website facilities but this should not be at the expense of existing residents,’’ said Peter Frank, a Bronte resident. ‘’On the face of it, this is a gross betrayal of a neighbourhood which has for decades loyally supported this institution.”

Yet Simon Paterson from the Bronte RSL Sub-branch said the redevelopment would be a win for all. “The community definitely needs aged care. It should be a win-win all round,” he said.

In a city with a housing shortage, RSL redevelopments could be ‘’a very good idea,” said Associate Professor Michael Bounds from the Urban Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney.

“Club sites are located in prime spaces close to shopping centres and public transport so it really makes a lot of sense if you can redevelop them with mixed functions,’’ he said. ‘’If it enables the clubs to survive as well that’s really a bonus.’’

Just after ANZAC Day here in Queensland, there was a letter to the editor of the state’s main newspaper, The Courier Mail where a reader was questioning why attendees at the Brisbane march were wearing sprigs of ‘rosemary’ on their apparel instead of a red poppy.

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ANZAC DAY Rosemary is a small perennial shrub of the mint family. This compact evergreen, with clusters of small light blue flowers and leaves that yield a fragrant essential oil used in making perfume and to flavour food, is native to the Mediterranean region.

Legend says that the Virgin Mary, while resting, spread her cloak over a white flowering rosemary bush. The flowers turned the blue of her cloak, and from then on the bush was referred to as the “Rose of Mary”.

This plant was, in ancient times, supposed to strengthen memory. Greek scholars wore rosemary in their hair to help remember their studies, and the association with remembrance has carried through to modern times. In literature and folklore it is an emblem of remembrance.

On ANZAC Day, the wearing of small sprigs of rosemary in the coat lapel, pinned to the breast or held in place by medals is thus synonymous with remembrance and commemoration.

Remembrance Day Originally called Armistice Day, this day commemorated the end of the hostilities for the Great War (World War I), the signing of the armistice, which occurred on 11 November 1918 – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Armistice Day was observed by the Allies as a way of remembering those who died, especially soldiers with „no known grave‟.

The Flanders poppy became accepted throughout the allied nations as the flower of remembrance to be worn on Armistice Day. The red poppies were among the first plants that sprouted from the devastation of the battlefields of northern France and Belgium. „Soldiers‟ folklore had it that the poppies were vivid red from having been nurtured in ground drenched with the blood of their comrades‟.

So these are two reasons that we wear ‘rosemary’ on ANZAC Day and the ‘Flanders Poppy’ on Remembrance Day. No doubt there are many other versions, but this one will do for now. Ed

Last month I advised our members of the passing of ‘Tick’ Bostick, who seemed to be forever a resident of Angeles City. Well Tick has passed on. In the notification, we gave his name as Neil. As sure as anything, when you publish something you are notified of an error. Tick’s real Christian name was NOT Neil.

I knew Tick as well as most people and I did not know his real Christian name was NORVAL. So there you go Tick, I have let the cat out of the bag and told everyone something that you probably didn’t want us to know.

RIP Ed.

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We did this article about two years ago. It was relevant then and is still so. I repeat it in this issue of our newsletter as we have increased our membership greatly since the first article and also many of our members are getting older and susceptible to falling victim to a blood clot and suffering a stroke. I hope our members cut this article out and keep it close by in the event of suffering these symptoms. Ed

Blood Clots/Stroke – They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue.

STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters.... S. T. R. STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call the paramedics). She said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself for the rest of the evening.

Jane‟s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital and at 6:00 p.m. Jane passed away. She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don‟t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours, he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNISING A STROKE Sometimes, symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.

The stroke victim may suffer death or severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: S *Ask the individual to SMILE. T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (i.e. It is sunny out today.)

R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the

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New sign of a stroke – Stick Out Your Tongue.

Another „sign‟ of a stroke is this: Ask the person to „stick‟ out his tongue. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.

HMAS HOBART attacked by US Airforce June 1968 Vietnam HMAS Hobart & HMAS Perth ‘handing over’ in Subic Bay, Philippines – 1968 Gunline Deployment. ↓ ↓ ↓ th

Hobart returned to ‗The Gunline‘ on 20 May 1968 for her 2 the Da Nang vicinity saw her heading for Subic in early June for a barrel replacement for her two 5‖ Guns.

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Deployment. Straight into heavy action in 1 Corps around

Hobart returned to Sea Dragon operations on th June 11 , relieving USS St Paul with Captain Shands taking command of Task Unit 77.1.2.

USS Theodore Chandler (DD 717) was the support ship of the TU, which carried out its first firing on two truck parks 12 miles North of Dung Hoi. th

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On 13 & 14 June both ships carried out successful firing operations around Mui Ong and Cap Lay, where both ships came under fire from coastal defence batteries, 13 rounds landing as close as 50 yards from Hobart th before she knocked out one gun and US 7 Airforce Phantoms accounted for the remainder. Shrapnel was later collected from Hobart‘s upper-deck. This was the third time Hobart had come under enemy fire.

The Destroyer USS Edson had been detached from the NGFS Unit and now joined Hobart and Chandler to carry out surveillance around Tiger Island, 13 miles east of Cap Lay where an enemy radar installation was monitoring Operation Sea Dragon. With only one extended TU in the area it was found that the garrison was being resupplied at night by sea. th

Early on the morning of June 17 Hobart detected an aircraft approaching her from the vicinity of Cap Lay and evaluated it as ‗friendly‘. In the meantime whilst Hobart had been trying to establish the identity of the aircraft it launched a missile which hit her amidships on the starboard side, immediately aft of the boat davit. The warhead passed through 01 Deck and penetrated the Chief Petty Officers Pantry, Radar Room 3, the Missile Director Control Room and severely damaging the Emergency Conning Platform. The body of the missile then passed through the outer skin of the after funnel, damaging its uptakes, and finished up in the forward funnel. In its passage it killed Ordinary Seaman R. J. Butterworth and wounded AB Parker and OrdSmn Davidson.

Hobart‘s crew clambered to Action Stations, and 3 and a half minutes later another two missiles fired from close range nd slammed into her. Again on the starboard side. The 2 missile entered her transom just below 1 Deck wrecking the Gunner‘s Store and Engineers Workshop. Luckily the warhead did not explode. The 80 Man Aft Seamen‘s Mess wore a

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large part of this missile! The 3 missile hit her very near the site of the first and the warhead passed through the Fan Space, Missile Director Equipment Room and No 2 Missile Director. Chief Electrician Hunt was killed and several sailors wounded by part of the missile warhead.

The Ikara Missile Magazine was also seriously damaged.

LEFT- Damage Assessment Subic Bay As Hobart turned away from the threat direction the aircraft was seen to be a swept wing jet fighter. Hobart got away 5 rounds of 5‖ and no further attack was made.

The TU joined USS Boston, and with USS Blandy (DD943) formed an anti aircraft screen around USS Enterprise CVAN 65. A helo from Enterprise provided a medivac and delivered AB Parker, Mech Holmes, and AB Laity to hospital in Da Nang.

Edson relieved Hobart as leader of the TU and Hobart steamed for Subic Bay. On passage the crew cleared the debris and collected pieces of missile for identification. It was only then it was realised that the missiles had been fired from US Aircraft. th

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Actually Hobart had been one of only several ships attacked by 7 Airforce jets on the nights of the 16 & 17 June. On th th the 16 USS PCF19 was sunk near the DMZ with 5 killed and on the 17 Hobart, Boston and Edson were attacked.

Edson 15 minutes after Hobart as were ‗Market Time‘ vessels USCGC Point Dume WPB82325 and PCF12, a US Navy Patrol Craft. Boston and Hobart both took hits but only Hobart suffered fatalities. th

Hobart arrived at Subic Bay on the 19 June where CINCPAFLT, Admiral J.J. Hyland USN th inspected the damage and addressed the Ship‘s Company. On the 20 June all ships in Subic Half Masted their Colours in honour of Chief Hunt and OrdSmn Butterworth.

Hobart completed 3 Gunline deployments to Vietnam and decommissioned in May 2000.

Damage assessment in Subic Bay Philippines by Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, USN, Commander in Chief of the United States Forces in the Pacific. →→→ The editor thanks the owner of the ‘Gunplot’ website, a personal and privately owned website about the Royal Australian Navy, Past, Present and Future, for this very important and interesting story of one of our HMA Ships doing duty in the Vietnam Conflict.

Ed Go to: http://www.gunplot.net/

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10 DVA MINISTERIAL MEDIA RELEASES Minister for Veterans' Affairs Mailing List VA032

Friday, 4 June 2010

BOMBER COMMAND TO BE HONOURED IN NATION’S CAPITAL Minister for Veterans‘ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel Alan Griffin will pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of Australia‘s air and ground crew who served in Bomber Command, the deadliest branch of the armed services during the Second World War, on Sunday.

Mr Griffin said more than 10,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel served in Bomber Command—a force that made a vital contribution to the Allied victory in the Second World War. ―Although fewer than two per cent of Australia‘s Second World War enlistments served in Bomber Command, more than 3,500 Bomber Command airmen were killed in action, accounting for some 20 per cent of all Australian deaths in combat,‖ Mr Griffin said.

Visit Website ―Bomber Command was the Allies‘ most effective means of attacking enemy industry and supply lines and suffered the highest casualty rates of any group throughout the Second World War.‖ Some 125,000 air crew served in Bomber Command during the Second World War from most parts of the British Empire, including more than 10,000 from Australia, as well as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Almost half of those who served were killed during the bombing campaign.

Mr Griffin will lay a wreath at the Annual Bomber Command Commemorative Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial on Sunday, to commemorate those who served and died.

The Bomber Command Memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of more than 10,000 Australian RAAF air and ground crew who served and died in Bomber Command during the Second World War. The Memorial depicts the story of Bomber Command including a searchlight reaching the sky, aircraft flown and those who flew or maintained them. ―I encourage Australians to reflect on the important contribution of Australia‘s air and ground crew who served in Bomber Command during the Second World War. Without their dedication and courage, the course of the war may have been very different,‖ Mr Griffin said.

The Annual Bomber Command Commemorative Ceremony will be held at the Bomber Command Memorial in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at 11:00 am on Sunday, 6 June 2010.

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MEMOIRE EXTRACT FROM “HAPPY ODYSSEY”

BY LT GEN SIR ADRIAN CARTON DE WIART VC KBE CB CMG DSO Carton de Wiart (a British officer), in his book “Happy Odyssey”, made some observations about the troops he had come across during WW1. Carton de Wiart was wounded eight times in WW1 losing an eye and a hand, was a PW (escaped and recaptured) in WW11 and finished his career as a lieutenant general. Coming from him, the observations are noteworthy.

“Frankly, I had enjoyed the war; it had given me many bad moments, lots of good ones, plenty of excitement, and with everything found for us. Now I had ample time for retrospection; and, thinking of the troops, it seemed to me that the Guards stood out by themselves for discipline and turn-out, and I had found that the most successful commanders based their training on the Guards‟ system. The English county regiments topped the list for all-round work and steadiness; but for dash and daring the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind.

Visit Website The Australians, to my mind, were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight; they had come to fight and the enemy were made to know it.

“They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality, for when I was in hospital some Australians arrived, with a corpse on a stretcher, having carried it about two miles. The medical officer was furious, thinking they had done it to get out of the line, but one of them explained that „X‟ had been a religious sort of chap, and they thought he would have liked a decent burial, “General Birdwood, who commanded the Australians, passed an Australian soldier who took no notice of him.

An officer with the General stopped and asked the soldier if he was aware of the General‟s identity. The soldier replied that he was not aware of it, and implied that he didn‟t much care who he was, so the officer told him it was his GOC, General Birdwood. This elicited the reply, “Well, why the ---- ---- doesn‟t he wear a feather in his tail like any other bloody bird would?”

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History Mystery Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy’s Secretary was named Lincoln .

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theatre named ‘Ford’.

Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘ Lincoln ‘ made by ‘Ford’.

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theatre.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

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Oswald →

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“Last Post” “Last Post” is a bugle call used at Commonwealth military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have fallen in war. “The Last Post” is also the name of a poem by Robert Graves describing a soldier‟s funeral during World War I. “Last Post” was originally a bugle call used in British Army camps to signal the end of the day. The name derives from the practice of inspecting all the sentry posts around such a camp at the end of the day, and playing a bugle call at each of them. The “last post” was thus the last point of this inspection, and the bugle call signalling that this post had been inspected marked the end of the military day. This custom dates from at least the 17th century, and originated with British troops stationed in The Netherlands, where it drew on an older Dutch custom, called Taptoe. The Taptoe was also used to signal the end of the day, but has more prosaic origin. Taptoe originated signalling the moment that beer barrels had to be shut, hence that the day had ended. It comes from the Dutch phrase Doe den tap toe, meaning “Turn the tap off”: however the Dutch “Taptoe” bugle call Taptoesignaal, now used for remembrance events, is not the same tune as the Last Post. Neither Last Post nor Taptoesignaal is to be confused with the US call “Taps”, which has a similar function but different tune and origin.

During the 19th century, “Last Post” was also carried to the various countries of the British Empire. In all these countries it has been incorporated into military funerals, where it is played as a final farewell, symbolising the fact that the duty of the dead soldier is over and that they can rest in peace.

“Last Post” is used in public ceremonials commemorating the war dead, particularly on Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. In Australia and New Zealand it is also played on ANZAC Day. Since 1928 “Last Post” has been played every evening by buglers of the local Last Post association at the war memorial at Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium known as the Menin Gate, commemorating the British Empire dead at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War. The only exception to this was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to Brookwood Cemetery in England. On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate, in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers are quite often mistaken as being from the local fire brigade; however, they are present every day representing the Last Post Committee. They are indeed members of the fire brigade, and can sometimes be seen wearing the uniforms, but it is not the Fire Brigade that organizes “Last Post”.

14 “Last Post” was used by British forces in North America in colonial times, but its function was taken over in the United States by “Taps”, which has been used by the United States Army since 1862.

Pictures compliments of the AWM under their Copyright conditions of use. Also to my friend, Tony Fryer in Queensland, for providing me the nudge to research the origins. Tony also provides the words to the Last Post: Come home! Come home! The last post is sounding for you to hear.

All good soldiers know very well there is nothing to fear while they do what is right, And forget all the worries they have met in their duties through the year.

A soldier cannot always be great, but he can be a gentleman and he can be a right good pal to his comrades in his squad.

So all you soldiers listen to this – deal fair by all and you‟ll never be amiss.

Be Brave! Be Just! Be Honest and True Men!

CHUCKLE TIME AUSTRALIAN MATE ASKING FOR ADVICE

Hey mate, I really need your advice for a serious problem! I suspected for some time now that the missus has been playing up.

The usual signs; phone rings, if I answer the caller hangs up, going out with the girls a lot.. I try to stay awake to look out for her when she comes home but I usually fall asleep. Anyway last night about midnight I hid in the shed behind the boat when she came home she got out of someone’s car she was buttoning her blouse and she took her panties out of her purse and slipped them on. It was at that moment crouched behind the boat, I noticed it... a hairline crack in the out board motor mounting bracket. Is that something I can weld or do I need to replace it . . ..?

←I can relate to this cartoon Ed

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance”