Re: ADLER TAG AAR (and now some background) [OT] [HIST]

Aussies are Brits with balls......

Tony Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> At 14:32 22/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Tony Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> >> All but 1 of our 98 VC's have been won since we became an
independant
> >> nation
> >>
> >
> >Weren't Aussies brave before then or did that have something to do
with
> >the pomms? <g>
> >
> >Los
> >
> >
> >
>	  The first Australian VC was awarded to a doctor in the Sudan
campaign in
> the 1880's. A couple of field ambulances went and as such were the
first
> Australian troops to serve overseas which we've been doing every
since.
> IIRC no Australian got one in the Boer war but I could be wrong. About
40
> or so were won in WWI with fewer awarded in WWII and 4 in Vietnam.
>	  We didn't get any VCs earlier because the pomms never used
Australian
> colonial troops. Even during the Boer war Australian units could not
be
> more than 150 men strong. Makes you wonder if the Pomms trusted us.
> 
>	  Tony.
>	  twilko@ozemail.com.au