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  • #61
    Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
    i see it is equipped with a British Army jerrycan.

    " jerrycan " , A British copy of a container used by the German Army to carry either petrol or water hence the name jerrycan .

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
      How many times a year are they issued to crows?
      well you could say about 14,000 times a year because that is how many we recruited into the British Army last year alone
      RGJ

      ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

      The Rifles

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      • #63
        Originally posted by RoyalGreenJacket View Post
        well you could say about 14,000 times a year because that is how many we recruited into the British Army last year alone
        You take crows now? Have you no standards?


        Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
          You take crows now? Have you no standards?
          every recruit is a 'crow'. and as for standards - we have recruited a number of lads from the PDF and RDF who are also members of IMO and from what i am led to believe - they are of very high standard
          RGJ

          ...Once a Rifleman - Always a Rifleman... Celer et Audax

          The Rifles

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          • #65
            If your recruits have feet like that no wonder the boots give them trouble.

            GIVE IT A REST WITH THE RECRUITING JUST FOR ONE THREAD!


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #66
              Keep it on topic. The next person to post about anything other than a Ford Mk6 armoured car in this thread will get lots of points - and then I'll go look at some of their recent posts and find an excuse to give them even more points. The crap ends now.

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              • #67
                can I mention the Soldier wearing the Cavalry Collar patches on his fatigue shirt..slightly unusual. Any one notice other corps doing something similar?
                Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                • #68
                  Did the now Curragh- based car make it to the Congo?

                  (Apologies for dragging up an old thread...there is a method to my madness)
                  "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Steamy Window View Post
                    Did the now Curragh- based car make it to the Congo?
                    No, none of the Congo Fords were taken home.

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                    • #70
                      Thanks.

                      The car will hopefully be on display in Enniscorthy on Easter Monday
                      "Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here...this is the War Room!"

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                      • #71
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                        • #72
                          "Decorated cavalry corps veteran Art Magennis DSM gives an illustrated first-hand account of fighting in .303 Vickers-armed 4x2 Ford armoured cars against more powerfully armed M8 'Greyhound' 6x6 armd cars in Katanga, Congo, in 1961 as part of the ONUC (UN) mission. The Ford Mk VI armoured car was an updated version of the WWI .303 Vickers-armed Rolls-Royce armoured car. It was designed by the Irish Cavalry Corps and built in Carlow, Ireland in 1941.
                          Conversation recorded in Art's house in Dublin in 2013. Art was born in Ardglass, Co. Down in 1919. He served in the Cavalry Corps, Irish Defence Forces, from 1940 to1979. Art died on 12/2/2019 in his hundred year.
                          For more see: 'Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo' by Michael Kennedy and Art Magennis (Four Courts Press, 2014)"

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                          • #73
                            Brave men, going to war in such appalling vehicles, when postwar Europe was crawling with cheap, available and much better vehicles than the Fords. Imagine being intimidated by a 37mm gun, nearly two decades after Ww2.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
                              Brave men, going to war in such appalling vehicles, when postwar Europe was crawling with cheap, available and much better vehicles than the Fords. Imagine being intimidated by a 37mm gun, nearly two decades after Ww2.
                              But made in Carlow!
                              Remember we got Comet tanks in 1960! A tank that was good in 1945 but by 1960 was well past it use by date. As you said post-1945 there was tons of equipment going cheap, not just armoured vehicles. We took Flower class whalers which where only ever intended as a stop-gap vessel while half decent sloops and frigates where available, enough said!

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by EUFighter View Post
                                But made in Carlow!
                                Remember we got Comet tanks in 1960! A tank that was good in 1945 but by 1960 was well past it use by date. As you said post-1945 there was tons of equipment going cheap, not just armoured vehicles. We took Flower class whalers which where only ever intended as a stop-gap vessel while half decent sloops and frigates where available, enough said!
                                Flower class whalers?
                                Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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