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Whats your name =Max Maxwell
Date=30 December 2005
Your E-Mail=manica@tiscali.co.za
Your Location=Matatiele, R.S.A.
How did you find our website=Search engine
What unit are you from=Ex Military

message=What a great site! So good to see some of my old drinking buddies from Le Coq D'Or in the 70s.I see Fred Le Roux is a member. God, its been so long since I thought of him! He and I were Medics attached to 3 (Indep) Coy in 1977.

Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
Was great to see some of you at the Reunion in November.

Keep your heads down!

MAX






Whats your name =Iain Bowen
Date=25.12.2005
Your E-Mail= on request
Your Location=Texas, queensland, Aus.
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=Ex Csqn

message=Busy year, we sold the farm and now live full time in Texas. I am still running the local Ambulance service.
Hope you all had a good 2005 and may 2006 be good to us all.

Iain and Vera Bowen






Whats your name =Mike Colton
Date=Xmas Eve
Your E-Mail=postroom@hotmail.com
Your Location=Hereford
How did you find our website=From ex sas member
What unit are you from=Ex SAS

message=Dear All,
Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from all at the Allied Special Forces Association.

Regards,

Mike Colton
Secretary
Allied Special Forces Association

postroom@alliedspecialforces.org
www.alliedspecialforcesassociation.org






Whats your name =Paul Hogan
Date=18/11/05
Your E-Mail=paulhogan@oceanbroadband.net
Your Location=Western Australia
How did you find our website=From ex sas member
What unit are you from=Ex Military

message=Good to flick thru your site.Great to see that some of the old dogs are still barking!
Some of us are still testing gravity for a living!If any ex-members are visiting Western Australia, we have an operational drop zone located in Busselton.

Best regards

Paul Hogan

(ex PTS)






Whats your name =Gerry McGahan
Date=Sept 25, 2005
Your E-Mail=
Your Location=USA
How did you find our website=Just word of mouth
What unit are you from=Ex Csqn

message=My sympathies to Steve Seward and all the familes.
What a tragedy! Our thoughts & prayers go out to all.






Whats your name=Louise Berry
Date=26 May 2005
Your E-Mail=louise@chattels.co.za
Your Location=Cape Town
How did you find our website=From ex sas member
What unit are you from=Ex Csqn

message=My father was Dave Berry (BCR) and I have met some amazing ex SAS guys in the past year. Once again, I am searching for any stories, pics etc about my dad. To all those who have contacted me in the past, thank you. To the rest, I shall see you at the Reunion this year again.





Whats your name =Andy
Date=09-05-05
Your E-Mail=webmaster@militaryimages.net
Your Location=England
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=Ex Military

message=Great site!





Whats your name =Albert Dunn
Date=28th April 2005
Your E-Mail=adunn@polmont99.freeserve.co.uk
Your Location=Scotland
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=Civilian

message=I am making an equiry, on behalf of my sister, now living in Aus, she is looking for an old friend, John Woods who served in the SAS in the early 70's. Her name, at that time was Margaret Dunn, and we stayed in Waterfalls just outside Salibury, not too far from Harare. She was a nurse, who trained in Gwello.

I would appreciate any feed back anyone has on John.

Thanks





Whats your name =Charles Peddie
Date=23.03.05
Your E-Mail=charles@kerikerigardens.co.nz
Your Location=New Zealand
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=Ex Military

message=Hi there guys - trying to get in touch with Christopher Sandford ex squadron '78 -"79. Blieve he is a teacher near Rhodes University in South Africa.
Also trying to get in touch with Allan Duront and Brad Kietsman. I had many SAS friends including the late Nicky Barber and Rich Hickman and also Norman Mackechnie.
Played rugby with Simon Hind at Old Georgians Sports club in Salisbury and also went to Mount Pleasant High. I served with Support Unit (Black Boots or 'Mantle')





Whats your name =Howard Griffiths
Date=7/03/2005
Your E-Mail=howard@griffithsonline.co.za
Your Location=south africa
How did you find our website=Search engine
What unit are you from=what unit are you from

message=To Whom It May Concern

My father William Archibald Griffiths will be turning 80 in November this year. As a gift I have promised that we will write a book on his life. He and I have spent many hours together recalling his past.
I found his career as a paratrooper in WW2, Java and Palestine very interesting. During this time he had a very close fighting friend called Bunny Austin (named after the famous tennis player at the time.) When they finished their airborne career they drifted apart never to talk again. Bunny Austin saved my father life in Java after he had been shot in the stomach. I would dearly like to find out what happened to Bunny. I am not even sure if he is still alive. What I do know is that he went to run a rubber plantation in Malaya after the war (1948).I have been searching for ages now on the internet to no avail. Bunny reached the rank of corporal. He was part of the 22nd Independent Airborne Division's 5th Brigade. He was seconded to 3rd The Own Kings Hussars in Palestine. When in Java he sent a letter to my grandmother advising her that her son had been wounded but was okay. In the letter he gave his rank then as Cpl.Philip.Austin 14422605. There is a possibility that he made his way to Australia or New Zealand, but that is just a guess. Who knows where he really went???

I seem to have come up against a brick wall here. Their is some kind of secrecy law in the UK that makes it almost impossible for me to get access to such critical information. I have run out of ideas on how to track down the illusive Bunny Austin. I have visited almost every website there is looking for lost friends and soldier buddies and many other sites all over the world. So as a last resort I am turning to you for help and advise.Would you be able to guide me in the right direction to try and locate Bunny for my dad.


Kind Regards


Howard Griffiths





Whats your name =Alex Blackburn
Date=24 feb 2005
Your E-Mail=alex@mp5k.fsnet.co.uk
Your Location=UK
How did you find our website=Just word of mouth
What unit are you from=Ex Military

message=G'Day,
Can I ask you a question please, and hopefully get an answer.
SAS wings, the ones embroidered on the green twill/denim for wear on shirts and combat jackets. Can someone give me a wingtip to wingtip measurement. A truly sad question I know. I have seen pics of them but have no context for size.

Added to which, I am putting together a book at the moment. Must be getting old, I've learned to write. the books working title is: Airborne Elite: International Airborne and Special Forces Insignia. This is to show current wings, explain what it takes to earn them and to give a brief description of the units that wear the wings.

I also want to include a couple of former nations; Rhodesia being one. That is my reason for starting to gently ask about wings. If there is anyone in the UK who has his original wings I would if possible like to photograph them some time, pretty please and a beer(or two).

Any help welcome, Thanks.

Alex B, UK





Whats your name =Ian McClure
Date=18/02/05
Your E-Mail=schwan@discoverymail.co.za
Your Location=Roodepoort
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=airforce

message=
Am an ex 7-8 sqdn flight engineer/gunner 76to81





Whats your name =2Lt Hennie van Niekerk
Date=15/02/2005
Your E-Mail=hennie.vanniekerk@standardbank.co.za
Your Location=Pretoria RSA
How did you find our website=Search engine
What unit are you from=what unit are you from

message="They" can take the men away that made the difference but the memories "they" can't kill.
I salute the SAS and RECCE.

2Lt HJ van Niekerk ex(SA HQ Unit)





Whats your name =Niel Conradie
Date=14/02/2005
Your E-Mail= on request
Your Location=Sunshine Coast Australia
How did you find our website=Search engine
What unit are you from=Ex Csqn

message=Great to find the site, had good memories and even reckognised some faces on the reunion photos of 2004.





Whats your name=Louise Berry
Date=09 02 05
Your E-Mail=louise@chattels.co.za
Your Location=Cape Town
How did you find our website=From ex sas member
What unit are you from=what unit are you from

message=Hi there My father was Dave Berry (BCR) who was killed in 1982. I was at the 2004 Reunion and it was great to meet a lot of Ex SAS guys. Have kept in touch with quite a few who have great stories about my father and who have taken me under their wing.
If anyone else has any pics of him or just a quick story to tell, please email me. It would be great to hear as much as possible about him.

Love to all

Louise Berry





Whats your name=George Bentley
Date=3 February 2005
Your E-Mail=gbentley@mac.com
Your Location=Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
How did you find our website=Search engine
What unit are you from=Civilian

message=I am currently flying 747-400s for United Airlines, mostly to Asia. Previous life spent during the waning days of Pan Am flying to Africa (Nairobi) then traveling to SA and Zim while on 4 day layovers.

Looking for any information about my cousin, Barney Mulock-Bentley former RhSAS. Have lost contact with him, last address is Rondebosch, SA. Any new address, e-mail address or phone # would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

George Bentley





Whats your name =CHARLIER
Date=03 Février 2005
Your E-Mail=usumbura1@hotmail.com
Your Location=Brussels Belgium
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=what unit are you from

message= Salut, je m’appelle Marc j’ai fait mon service militaire au 2 ème Bataillon Commandos béret vert à Flawines ( en Belgique – Belgium ). Je fais partie de la classe 70.
Je t’invite à découvrir mon journal de bord plein de vieux souvenirs et photos sur mon site.
Si, tu pense pouvoir faire profiter d’autres amis de mon vécu tu peux mettre un lien dans ton site web vers le miens cela me ferait vraiment plaisir, je ferais de même avec ton accord, car je recherche surtout de retrouver des anciens pour partager cet époque Si tu as des photos, ou avis de recherche je suis prêt a les mettre sur mon site

Comment oublier ? … Je te remercie d’avance amitié Marc

http://perso.dromadaire.com/marc51/commando.cl70.html

Translation?

Good day, I m’appelle Marc j’ai does my military service to the 2 ème Battalion Commando units beret green to Flawines (in Belgium – Belgium).

I am part of the class 70. I t’invite to discover my edge newspaper a lot of old remember and photos on my site. If, you think to be able to do to take advantage d’autres friends of my screw you can put a link in your site web towards mine that would be done me really pleasure,

I would do even with your agreement, for I research especially to rediscover old to divide this era If you have photos, or research opinions I am ready has to put them on my site How to forget? … I thank you d’avance friendship Marc





Whats your name =Joe Johnson
Date=29 Jan 05
Your E-Mail=joe@all-about.co.za
Your Location=Glencairn/Simon's Town
How did you find our website=From another link
What unit are you from=Ex Military


message=Hi people, I'm retired SA Navy and at various stages of maritime ops met some of your members. Names I remember, but don't remember if they were C-Sqn: Tim Callow(Scouts?) Chris Schulenberg, JC Greyling, Mac MacIntosh (died in para accident at Saldanha) etc. I took part in 19 spes-ops with the strike craft and ended up OC of Boat 1 (SAS JAN SMUTS) 1992 TO 1994.
I also see Col Ron every now and again at the Club in Smst. The Rhodesian Special Forces always were and always will be the very best as were our own Recces.

Good luck to you guys.

Capt(SAN)ret Joe Johnson





Whats your name =Hennie Schoeman
Date=9-1-05
Your E-Mail=mail on request
Your Location=Auckland. NZ
How did you find our website=From ex sas member
What unit are you from=Ex Csqn

message=A great site. nice to see so many familiar names. Anybody who remembers me and wants to make contact please do.





Whats your name =John Tanner
Date=06/01/2005
Your E-Mail=apartmentdweller2003@yahoo.ca
Your Location=UK
How did you find our website=Just word of mouth
What unit are you from=Ex RLI

message=Great site.

Lots of memories here.