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[cappy]

#16.. Cappy the $840 dollars that Gwen won in the raffle last night she gave me $100 .the source of the raffle ticket was that for every pint of beer you drink you get 2 free raffle tickets , for what they call cutting the Ace ( of spades) it was due to my hard work of getting these raffle tickets which I had to force myself to drink all this beer that we had the chance to cut the cards, which I let her do. She now says it was her skill that she won. So my sore fingers are now watching where she puts her handbag. Alls fair in love and war. Cheers JS

according to my mathematics 99 dollars in oz is equal to 1 shilling and threepence......please send before the 25th......not a bad little touch john 840 dollars ......there is a santa after all......happy xmas to you both ........the vicar called last night comes once a year .......asked if i would have an asylum seeker for xmas ,,,,,i told him no way im having a turkey like everybody else........cappy

[thomas michael]

How hard to read this..... my belief is any country who declares war and is beaten shoulld expect all there pollies and families to be hanged in public .....what a sad story and .....yet today we have folk crying the government has stolen xmas ......this in a time of countless deaths to a unseen enemy ........where have all the flowers gone.....regards cappy

hi cappy
the alternative is, to rebuild the agressors country up to a level where it can now start to rebuild its self upto the level it held prior to the war it started, and in the germans case even stronger.
then after its back on its feet it can be given once again control of europe which it once held by force, and which it still holds today, this is what our duplicitous politicians did twenty five years or more after the second world war you couldnt make such a story up.
tom

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according to my mathematics 99 dollars in oz is equal to 1 shilling and threepence......please send before the 25th......not a bad little touch john 840 dollars ......there is a santa after all......happy xmas to you both ........the vicar called last night comes once a year .......asked if i would have an asylum seeker for xmas ,,,,,i told him no way im having a turkey like everybody else........cappy

hi cappy
if he is roasted and properly seasoned put me down for two.
tom

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI John.
I find that my wife's handbag is always there in time of need, don't know how she does it, I think she has a money maker in there.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

So many stories similar to that one.
But the name of Simpson brings to mind Simpson and his Donkey in WWI at Gallipoli.
Taking wounded from both sides to the field hospital but shot dead by a Turkish sniper.

A non combatant at the time attempting to do good taken out by the enemy.
No compassion for either side in events such as that.

[j.sabourn]

He was from South Shields John. He passed his entry exam in flying colours for the language test for Australia. Cappy coached him. JS

[Keith at Tregenna]

Thought it well known hence not posted earlier.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/behi...05-ggu8rz.html

[cappy]

He was from South Shields John. He passed his entry exam in flying colours for the language test for Australia. Cappy coached him. JS

Big hero in shields simpson ...a statue in shields outside the library and near a seamans bar years ago called the grill and royal .....a bit upmarket from the mechanics ......some engineers used to wear there uniforms in there......if i remember the statue was simson in a oz army uniform with sundowner hat ....we were very proud of him as kids.....cappy

[happy daze john in oz]

An RSL club we go to in Moama NSW has the bell from his donkey.
It was a used shell case.

Held for many years aby a family member here in Oz.
When the club opened way back in early 1990's there was a small museum in there, the bell was donated and now proudly sits in pride of place.