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Glenelg


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Vic you look better in picture than you do in avatar biggrinbiggrinnodisbeliefbiggrinbiggrin

 

sorry couldn't help myself.   

 
 edit i'll let Vic tell you witch one 


-- Edited by Glenelg on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 09:58:28 AM

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Hey Vic - you were quite a sort - I think you are the one kneeling down?

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That's got to be a rather old photo, what with the 303s, old webbing & gaiters,  and possibly khaki uniform.  CMF?



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Hey Vic - you were quite a sort - I think you are the one kneeling down?

No that was a mate called Bob Burney, he got killed walking along the road not long after that.    I can't remember the name of the fair headed bloke on the right of the photo looking at it.

I was standing on the left side of the photo looking at it, all of 17 and about 10 stone then.

Cupie, that was the regular army, they were still using .303's, Owen Machine Guns, Energa .303 grenade launchers and Bren guns etc, we were still using those when I was posted to PNG from 17 Construction Squadron to PNG Construction Squadron at Moem Peninsula, 10 kms east of Wewak.

SLR's, M16s etc and US webbing did not come in until after that and I was not issued with it until a later posting to 1 Field Squadron.

 

 



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Hey Vic
Great Photo Vic. Seen a few of my Dad & his mates from PNG days. My dad was in transport (2 Div - I think ) in Wewak, Lae, Milne Bay & Boganville...
they went all over dropping supplies and pickups...Did you guys build some big bridge up there ....he got into trouble for laying planks one night on the last open section
and being the first truck across...
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Hi KT,

My Uncle was in Transport at Milne Bay (Doug Kilpatrick, now deceased).

For the 18 months I was at Moem we initially lived in tents as we were the advance party of our unit, then got the locals to build us native type huts (sack sack & pungle.....conconut palm leaves and stalks) which we lived in during our stay. 

Our task was to build a camp for the PIR (Pacific Island Regiment) to counter a threat of invasion from the Indonesians on the other side of the border.   We did all the ground work (clearing the scrub, building roads and WW2 unexploded bombs disposal in the general area) and the building of the barracks proper hadn't started by the time I left.   Did a few patrols to other areas and went with a mate who was a pilot with the Catholic Mission to areas of the Sepik River etc while there, also acted as an observer on a DC3 flying over the area where one of the Rockafella sons disappeared when his yatch sunk (they reckon one of the cannibal tribes got him when he came ashore).

The PIR barracks we started the groundworks for was burnt to the ground later in 2002 by a PIR mutiny, we had a group of PIR attached with us at Moem when I was there, most seemed like a nice bunch but some were a bit wild.   Here is a link to the the PIR riot of 2002.

http://exkiap.net/news/pngdf.htm 

Loved my time in PNG but have no great desire to go back, got Dengue Fever and a relapse while I was there and hospitalized at Wewak Hospital.   Also had to evacuate our camp to higher ground due to the backwash of the Chile earthquake sunami which destroyed part of the old Wewak hospital.   The ocean horizon looked like jagged mountain tops and the water was being sucked in and out that quickly near the shore that it was leaving the ocean bed and reef dry and sharks and other fish flapping on the reef, then would come back in just as quickly again, saw that just before we took off for higher ground.



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great stories Vic, maybe not so great memories

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I wouldn't have missed it for quids Dave, I had a little girlfriend in Angoram on the Sepik River, she would come to Wewak from time to time to catch up, I often wondered what happened to her, we never kept in contact.

Pity there is so much violence up there now since they gained their independence.  One of the other GN's on this site worked on mine sites up there for a number of years, Jonathon also spent part of his childhood up there.



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Vic I found this photo. Are you sure it's not you in disguise !!! biggrinbiggrin

PNG Guy with Penis Shield.jpg



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GOSH Vic you devel , the hair style ??

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What did that senator say about the attributes she wants in a boyfriend? this chap seems to fit the bill in one department.

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I wish!.....wink biggrin

I did enjoy those helicopter rides up there though....

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You look like a good Pilot Mate with that headset on !!! biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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Vic, is that your joystick? biggrin  well somebody had to say it. biggrin 



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Vic, is that your joystick? biggrin  well somebody had to say it. biggrin 

 I'd be too embarrassed to say something like that !!!  omfg.gif



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What did that senator say about the attributes she wants in a boyfriend? this chap seems to fit the bill in one department.

 He's certainly very liberally endowed by nature !!! biggrinbiggrin



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Vic, is that your joystick? biggrin  well somebody had to say it. biggrin 

 I'd be too embarrassed to say something like that !!!  omfg.gif

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What did that senator say about the attributes she wants in a boyfriend? this chap seems to fit the bill in one department.

 He's certainly very liberally endowed by nature !!! biggrinbiggrin

 thats not really him biggrin



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 thats not really him biggrin

 Yes it is......ask your twins......biggrin biggrin biggrin



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 thats not really him biggrin

 Yes it is......ask your twins......biggrin biggrin biggrin

 how would my twins know? they would not associate with anybody like you biggrin 



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 thats not really him biggrin

 Yes it is......ask your twins......biggrin biggrin biggrin

 how would my twins know? they would not associate with anybody like you biggrin 

On second thoughts, after they had been contaminated by you I don't think I would want too... bleh 



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Vic41 wrote:
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 thats not really him biggrin

 Yes it is......ask your twins......biggrin biggrin biggrin

 how would my twins know? they would not associate with anybody like you biggrin 

On second thoughts, after they had been contaminated by you I don't think I would want too... bleh 

 I don't blame you Vic. You would have to renew the varnish afterwards. biggrin



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Vic41 wrote:
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Vic41 wrote:
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 thats not really him biggrin

 Yes it is......ask your twins......biggrin biggrin biggrin

 how would my twins know? they would not associate with anybody like you biggrin 

On second thoughts, after they had been contaminated by you I don't think I would want too... bleh 

 I don't blame you Vic. You would have to renew the varnish afterwards. biggrin

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin 



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