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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:11 BST (UK) »
Scrimmers has returned!!

Soaking wet kit, blisters (our boots never had a chance to dry out!!) and a stress fracture...But all worth it to raise money and then at the end, to march through the Menin Gate in full WW1 Northamptons kit...I took off my RAMC tunic for the last bit into Ypres...

Thank you so much to all whom have donated, and if you havent...there is time yet

http://www.bmycharity.com/WhitehalltoWipers

x2 pics..The start at Whitehall, and the finish at Toc H apres arrival at the Menin Gate
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:17 BST (UK) »
Jolly good show, chaps!  I applaud you, I really do - and in such atrocious weather.  My grandad Harry would have been proud of you (he mentions some horror marches in his letters and diaries from France).

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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:23 BST (UK) »


Well done!  Looks as though the weather was a little kinder to you once you'd crossed the Channel.


Nanny Jan
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
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Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:34 BST (UK) »
Errr....No!!! lol  ;D ;D ;D ;D
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:44 BST (UK) »

Oops  .....   :-[      It doesn't look rainy in the second photo..........
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 09:47 BST (UK) »
Well Done!   You don't look like drowned rats in the 2nd photo ;D


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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 20:27 BST (UK) »
A very very good evening to you Scrimmers,

A huge well done for all your efforts and your colleages. Have done several more texts for you and the lads. We have a chap at the end of our road who does a lot for Help for Heroes, drives a landrover covered in their posters.
Bit late with this but no internet for 2 days as we had to have our own broadband put in. Junior decided that at 34 it was time to fly the nest.

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Stephens, Fuller, Tedham, Bennett, Ransome (Sussex)
Rider (Fulham)
Stephens (Somerset)
Kentfield (Essex)

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Re: Scrimmers Living History...probably not quite alive at the end!!
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 02 May 12 22:15 BST (UK) »
Thanks mukker.... :)

Sadly we have no idea at the moment of how much we have raised via the text service ( send "march" to 70900  ;D), but another 100 has come in from one of the WFA branches in Essex
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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