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Thread #158525 Message #3753934
Posted By: Teribus
27-Nov-15 - 07:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Just when I thought we'd finished Jom comes up with yet another "Foot-in-mouth" moment in this exchange:
""I did not. He is not an historian of WW1." - (says Keith A quite rightly)
Yes he is - not only an expert on the subject but a stretcher bearer during that war.
Stop this stupidity - you've lost - the plot, it would appear." - (says Jom)
I take it we are talking about the David Crane who is still alive and well and living up in the Scottish Highlands, who wrote:
- Lord Byron's Jackal: A Life of Trelawny (1999)
- The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons (2002)
- Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy(2006)
- Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves (2013)
Here is a photograph of the man Jom:
David Crane
So according to your extensive researches this man was a Stretcher Bearer during the First World War was he?
So Harry Patch was not the last surviving Tommy who saw service in the Great War - David Crane must be. Mind you he appears to be in damn good nick for someone who must be over 115 years old - worn well has he Jom or have I caught you out just making up more shit.
Reality must indeed be a different planet to you old son - stick to writing about "what is folk music". Take your own advice:
Stop this stupidity - you've lost - the plot