Pat you may find both Stanley Baker who played Lt John Chard , and Michael Caine who played Lt Gonville Bromhead ,were both the same same rank , Lt John Chard was the most experienced Soldier , though not in battle as he was with the Engineers

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We have many Nationalities in the Carolis ,another was at the Alamo fighting the Mexicans , he was from Tennessee .

Pat , I didn't say which side my Ancestor was fighting on

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Caroli the Zulu?

Made me chuckle that Charlie



Can't let you get away with the equal rank thingy though. Chard and Bromhead were both Lieutenants but Chard had seniority by 3 months (Feb - May).

At the end of the film where Richard Burton names the VC's, he says after Chard "Officer commanding Rorke's Drift".

Gotta go, rugby match on.

Decent following from the Taffs today, fair play to them.

They made plenty of noise too!

No Men of Harlech though

very disappointed



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They were excellent and were a credit to their club. Now I know what other clubs feel like when we go on the road. I'm looking forward to going to their place.

Lisa will be running a overnite stay trip watch this space

Overnight?! It's quicker to get to than most of the Yorkshire games!

Don't forget last game of the season is fancy dress, don't leave the three nuns on there own.

Lol we won't

point is it's the last game and it's an excuse for a weekender . Enough people interested to run a full coach so far anyway

Linda could we get it announced over the tannoy system or put on the screen.

Had a good chat after the game in the whistling wren with a few away fans. Great bunch and they sung a song for us in welsh. Was really touching and a nice thing to do. Thought that the fans and the players did their club proud.

I chatted to a few before the game and without exception they were smashing.

I thought the Cru fans sounded great today and definitely out-sung the North Stand.

Whereas the West Stand Leythers were in tremendous voice once again.

If our fans don't wake up we're sending the drum in

No no Andy please.....

I was surprised there was no response from the 'Top of the league you're havin a laugh' chant - and especially the 'You're crap at singing' song.

When the North Stand did sing/roar, it sounded great and was very loud - there just wasn't enough of it.

I don't think the type of rugby we played helped - so boring. And the idiot in the middle didn't help by frustrating us every few minutes.
Why have we gone back to one man rugby (as at Keighley)?

That was frustrating. Yet, when the ball was moved wide, it was very effective. (i.e. Adam Higson's three virtually identical tries)

I have said on another thread the ref did not give the full 10 metres at the play the ball for both sides and consequently it slowed the game down.

One thing that did annoy me about Crusaders yesterday was practically every play their players threw their hands in the air and shouted to the match officials.

Well it seemed to put the ref off his game so I suppose it worked.

You're assuming that George listens to the players! Personally, I often think he's in a world of his own

- although he did seem to react in our favour, when we West Stand residents stirred ourselves to shout 'Forward!'

Very cryptic Alan.



Well just listened to PR's post match comments on Centurion TV.

Aspinwall broken ribs and Sarsfield sent home with tonsilitis.