Would anybody have the text on the Anzus War Memorial in Turkey?
The Aussie cricket team enroute to UK for the Ashes, stopped there to pay
their respects and from what I could make out in the newspaper this morning,
the memorial looked very impressive.
RK
Mike Lazzari wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
> > >Remembering casualties of a long forgotten war. Royal Marines Light
> > >Infantry buried in a foreign land. In this war there were no deaths due
> > >to enemy fire rather due to disease, drowning and accidental gunshot by
> > >a brother.
> > >
> > >http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/memorial.jpg
> > >
> >
> Chris responded:
>
> > Nice photo Mike, and a decent thought... but where is it? It looks
> > like a little copse on East Falkland, but there were lots of gunshots
> > there, then.
>
> This "war" was over the boundary between the US and British in the
> Pacific NW in the straits north of Juan de Fuca. The only casualty by
> hostile act was a pig, hence it is called the pig war. The Kaiser
> mediated and set the current boundary. For more info see:
>
> http://www.nps.gov/sajh/home.htm
>
> It is a pleasant place to take the dogs for our daily walks.
>
> mike
>
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