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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:02 am
 


Thank the Gods summer is finally showing up, time to put some miles on the scoot !


This will be a long one as well, 4 trips to post.


First, some pics I took in and around the town of Siena, in a region called Chianti....


Yes, its where they make the wine [drool] [drool]


Food, bikes, roads, Siena, where they hold the Palio race every year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palio_di_Siena


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wild boar:


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steak, plates for everyone [drool] [drool] [drool] [drool]

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and to finish, vinsanto... yes you dunk it, like coffee and doughnut

this is better ;)

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:04 am
 


Tasty scooters..............

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:06 am
 


Roads...

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When you drink Chianti, you are drinking this.... :)


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:09 am
 


Siena

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this is the main square where they hold the horse race..

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One of the contradas, or 'neighborhoods'

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:17 am
 


ok, lets move on to Genova... city built on hills, its all just up and down.


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We went to Staglieno Cemetery, one of the most distinct in Europe.

Space is at a premium, so many people are buried above ground in these vaults..

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Acres of these halls.

But, if you have money, you can arrange something a little better. I was really amazed at some of these, the pictures really dont do them justice...

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Names of family members inscribed on the floor in front of the tombs..

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:22 am
 


There are soldiers from WW1 and WW2 here, as with everything in Genova, you have to go
up to visit them...

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Soldiers are on 3 tiers, this is to reach the first tier...

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RAF from the first war..

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and a lady :(

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Cross of Sacrifice

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:26 am
 


Moving up to the next tier, the WW2 section.

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There are 4 of our boys here:

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I forgot to bring one of Yogi's poppies; but Genova isnt far, so I will go back
and plant another poppy before long.

Last I want to show is a captain of a minsweeper, must have been a really bad accident..

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Because here is the rest of the crew.... all of them :(

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Looking at the WW1 section:

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:28 am
 


We took the back roads home, Italy is a really nice piece of the world..

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:49 am
 


The rest of this will be Cemeteries at Klagenfurt and Udine




Klagenfurt, in the rain.


Mostly airmen, POWs, or died during the occupation, plus 4 Canadians.

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18 years old:

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and some older ones:
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this one, the actual grave is lost, so they put up a memorial..

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people still visit to remember loved ones:

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:53 am
 


Our 4...


The first was probably a POW captured at Dieppe, I am trying to get some extra info on him...

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and an aircrew

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and another of Yogi's poppies has been buried with this air crew in Austria.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:11 am
 


And finally, Udine in Italy.. no Canadians here, but at least it was sunny.


The Cemetery is one of the nicer ones I have seen..



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ok, I'm done.. thanks for having a look :D


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:59 am
 


martin14 martin14:

ok, I'm done.. thanks for having a look :D


Thank you for showing us! :P :rock:
You are so lucky. 8)


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:39 pm
 


martin14 martin14:
We took the back roads home, Italy is a really nice piece of the world..

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OK, please wait a bit for the next bunch to load up.... :)


w00t!!!!....u lucky ducks... beautiful stuff!!!!!!!!


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:01 pm
 


martin14 martin14:
Our 4...


The first was probably a POW captured at Dieppe, I am trying to get some extra info on him...

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Essex Scottish

In the 1860s, with the Fenians threatening Canada, the Windsor area of Ontario felt the need to establish an army for their protection. It wasn't until 12 June 1885, however, that the regiment, known as the 21st Essex Battalion of Infantry, was authorized. It was formed by the amalgamation of five infantry companies in the Windsor area. The Regiment went through a number of name changes before settling on the Essex Scottish Regiment on 15 July 1927.

On 1 September 1939, the Essex Scottish Regiment, C.A.S.F. was mobilized. Within only a few days the Regiment had recruited a full strength force, including a notable number of Americans.

On 16 August 1940 the Regiment set sail for England as part of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. It was two years later before they experienced their first fight, the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942, which left the Regiment almost completely decimated.

On that ill-fated day, a misleading message was received by the headquarters ship, which led officials to believe that the Essex Scottish Regiment had breached the seawall successfully and were making headway in the town, when in fact they were on the pebble covered beach, pinned down and being fired at by the enemy. By the end of the Dieppe Raid, the Essex Scottish Regiment had suffered 121 fatal casualties.

In July 1944, after regaining their strength, the Regiment moved on to northwestern Europe. They landed on the coast of Normandy and fought their way through France, Holland, and Germany until the end of the war in the fall of 1945.

By the wars end, the Essex Scottish Regiment had suffered more than 550 war dead and had been inflicted with the highest number of casualties of any unit in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, more than 2,500. The Regiment returned home after the war in 1945, where they were disbanded on December 15.


KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY
Austria was annexed by Germany in March 1938, and many labour, prisoner-of-war and concentration camps were established there by the Germans. The principal POW camps were at Dollerscheim, Gneizendorf, Kaisersteinbruch, Leinz Drau, Spittal Drau and Wolfsburg Gratz. Commonwealth war dead buried in Austria were mainly servicemen who died in these camps in captivity, airmen who were shot down or crashed while flying over the country and those who died while serving with the army of occupation after the war. Klagenfurt, the only Commonwealth war cemetery in Austria, was begun in June 1945 by the British occupying forces, who moved graves into it from all over the country. It now contains 589 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. Between 1950 and 1954, eight First World War graves (three of them unidentified) were moved into the cemetery from small cemeteries at Innsbruck, Mauthausen, Muhldorf and Vienna. At the same time, special memorials were erected to two other First World War casualties whose graves at Muhldorf and Vienna could not be found.






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Date of Birth: 07 Jul 1914
Date of Death: 25 Oct 1943
Rank: Private
Unit: Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Force: Army
Service Number: A21236
Reference: RG 24

Notice printed Feb. 2, 1943 (maybe)

where his status changed from 'missing' to 'prisoner of war'

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Notice printed in the Globe and Mail Mar 28, 1944

that's 6 months after he died.


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So he was from Windsor, I went to university there.



But no indication of how he died, or how he wound up in an Austrian prison camp and cemetery.

Considering how many POWs were taken at Dieppe, seems strange he was buried
by himself.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:04 pm
 


You went to university in Windsor, Martin? Which school?

Back on point, these pictures are quite amazing, and it's nice seeing the history :rock:

Thank you for exposing me to these little bits of Canadian history that I'd be unlikely to see otherwise. Also, I'm not sure if it's just because space is a premium, because my grandfather in Montreal arranged a private mausoleum space in Mount Royal Cemetery (I think). Might just be tradition.


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