THE LITTLE AND LARGE BITS
UPDATE IN PROGRESS ( 08 NOVEMBER 2009)
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"REGIMENTAL ARTICLES OF NOTE"
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FORECAST OF EVENTS 2009
NEW ADDITIONS IN GREEN
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December 2009
2nd post op herrick service belfast
3rd march parade worcester 1100hrs
4th march parade Derby 1100 hrs
5th march parade Nottingham 1100hrs
Mon 21 Ferozeshah Day
Thurs 17 RHQ Closes
FURTHER DETAILS ADDED TO EDITORIAL WHEN KNOWN
December 2009
2nd post op herrick service belfast
3rd march parade worcester 1100hrs
4th march parade Derby 1100 hrs
5th march parade Nottingham 1100hrs
Mon 21 Ferozeshah Day
Thurs 17 RHQ Closes
DO YOU KNOW OF EVENTS, ACTIVITIES HAPPENING IN YOUR AREA REF VETERANS, OR ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE REGIMENT LET US GET IT ON HERE.
1 WFR HISTORY BOOK 1970-2007
1 WFR ORDER FORM (IN WORD) LINK
OUCH! 50 MILES PER HOUR
VETERANS CARDS
FOUR MILLION FORMER SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN ARE TO BE GIVEN VETERANS' CARDS TO ENSURE THEY GET PRIORITY TREATMENT FOR NHS HEALTHCARE AND HOUSING, AND DISCOUNTS FOR SERVICES SUCH AS TRANSPORT.
THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE PLANS TO INTRODUCE THE CARDS AT THE BEGINNING OF 2010, THE INDEPENDENT HAS LEARNT, IN AN ATTEMPT TO BEGIN REPAIRING THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE MILITARY COVENANT BETWEEN NATION AND ARMED FORCES UNDER NEW LABOUR.
THE LAUNCH IS EXPECTED TO BE FORMALLY ANNOUNCED THIS AUTUMN WITH THE FIRST VETERANS' CARDS HANDED TO NEW ARMED FORCES LEAVERS IN SPRING NEXT YEAR, BEFORE BEING ROLLED OUT TO THE COUNTRY'S FOUR MILLION FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL.
THE AIM IS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE RISKED THEIR LIVES IN COMBAT GET FRONT-OF-THE-QUEUE TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS.
SIMILAR SYSTEMS IN THE US AND FRANCE OFFER VETERANS SUBSIDISED TRAVEL AND DISCOUNTS FROM PRIVATE COMPANIES.
AT A TIME WHEN THE ARMED FORCES HAVE BEEN STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT IN TWO BLOODY CONFLICTS, THERE HAS BEEN MOUNTING ANGER THAT THE PRIORITY TREATMENT PROMISED BY THE GOVERNMENT 18 MONTHS AGO HAS FAILED TO MATERIALISE.
"WE NOW NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN,"THE DEFENCE MINISTER KEVAN JONES TOLD THIS NEWSPAPER. "WE WILL PROVIDE VETERANS' ID CARDS SO THE PERSON CAN SAY 'I HAVE SERVED IN THE SERVICES' AND GET PRIORITY ACCESS TO TREATMENT.
" MR JONES SPOKE IN RESPONSE TO THIS NEWSPAPER'S CAMPAIGN TO GET BETTER MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR TRAUMATISED TROOPS, LAUNCHED AFTER THE VICTORIA CROSS WINNER JOHNSON BEHARRY – THE COUNTRY'S MOST DECORATED SERVING SOLDIER – REVEALED HIS OWN COMBAT-RELATED TRAUMA AND URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO STOP FAILING HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS WITH SUB-STANDARD OR NON-EXISTENT CARE.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR FREDDIE VIGGERS, WHO UNTIL LAST YEAR WAS ADJUTANT-GENERAL IN CHARGE OF PERSONNEL, WELCOMED THE VETERANS' CARD.
"IT IS ABOUT VALUE AND SELF WORTH, NOT ABOUT A PIECE OF PLASTIC," HE SAID.
"WE CARRY THESE CARDS FOR THE WHOLE OF OUR SERVICE AND WHEN WE LEAVE WE ARE REQUIRED TO HAND THEM IN.
PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IT IS A BAD THING.
IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF PLASTIC BUT IT REPRESENTS WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DID."
THE CONSERVATIVE MP PATRICK MERCER, FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER WITH THE WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHERWOOD FORESTERS REGIMENT, SAID:
"IT IS ABOUT BLOODY TIME.
AT LAST, A REASONABLE, SENSIBLE MINISTER (MR JONES) WHO LISTENS TO IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM.
" THE CATEGORIES IN THE FORCES DISCOUNT SCHEME CURRENTLY INCLUDE SOME RETRAINING, SPORTS CLUBS, CHILDCARE, INSURANCE, HOLIDAYS AND TRAVEL.
VETERANS AND SENIOR SOLDIERS HAVE CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A PREDICTED "EXPLOSION" OF TRAUMATISED TROOPS FROM RECENT CONFLICTS AND PROVIDE SPECIALIST MENTAL HEALTHCARE.
"NO ONE IS SUGGESTING THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM," MR JONES SAID, "BUT WE NEED A GROUNDED DEBATE TO UNDERSTAND IT."
HE ADMITTED THAT MANY FORMER SERVICEMEN WERE "LOST" IN THE NHS SYSTEM AND VOWED TO ENSURE EVERY GP WAS MADE TO RECORD WHETHER OR NOT A PATIENT HAD SERVED IN THE FORCES.
HOWEVER, HE REFUSED TO CONCEDE THAT FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL NEEDED SEPARATE, DEDICATED CARE AND RISKED THE WRATH OF CHARITIES BY SUGGESTING THEY SHOULD FUND PROVISION OF MILITARY HEALTH ADVISERS.
"COMBAT STRESS [THE CHARITY] GETS £3M OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY.
I DON'T THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO IT ALL. IT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY.
IT IS ABOUT THE SYSTEM WORKING BETTER."
THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE PLANS TO INTRODUCE THE CARDS AT THE BEGINNING OF 2010, THE INDEPENDENT HAS LEARNT, IN AN ATTEMPT TO BEGIN REPAIRING THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE MILITARY COVENANT BETWEEN NATION AND ARMED FORCES UNDER NEW LABOUR.
THE LAUNCH IS EXPECTED TO BE FORMALLY ANNOUNCED THIS AUTUMN WITH THE FIRST VETERANS' CARDS HANDED TO NEW ARMED FORCES LEAVERS IN SPRING NEXT YEAR, BEFORE BEING ROLLED OUT TO THE COUNTRY'S FOUR MILLION FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL.
THE AIM IS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE RISKED THEIR LIVES IN COMBAT GET FRONT-OF-THE-QUEUE TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS.
SIMILAR SYSTEMS IN THE US AND FRANCE OFFER VETERANS SUBSIDISED TRAVEL AND DISCOUNTS FROM PRIVATE COMPANIES.
AT A TIME WHEN THE ARMED FORCES HAVE BEEN STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT IN TWO BLOODY CONFLICTS, THERE HAS BEEN MOUNTING ANGER THAT THE PRIORITY TREATMENT PROMISED BY THE GOVERNMENT 18 MONTHS AGO HAS FAILED TO MATERIALISE.
"WE NOW NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN,"THE DEFENCE MINISTER KEVAN JONES TOLD THIS NEWSPAPER. "WE WILL PROVIDE VETERANS' ID CARDS SO THE PERSON CAN SAY 'I HAVE SERVED IN THE SERVICES' AND GET PRIORITY ACCESS TO TREATMENT.
" MR JONES SPOKE IN RESPONSE TO THIS NEWSPAPER'S CAMPAIGN TO GET BETTER MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR TRAUMATISED TROOPS, LAUNCHED AFTER THE VICTORIA CROSS WINNER JOHNSON BEHARRY – THE COUNTRY'S MOST DECORATED SERVING SOLDIER – REVEALED HIS OWN COMBAT-RELATED TRAUMA AND URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO STOP FAILING HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS WITH SUB-STANDARD OR NON-EXISTENT CARE.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR FREDDIE VIGGERS, WHO UNTIL LAST YEAR WAS ADJUTANT-GENERAL IN CHARGE OF PERSONNEL, WELCOMED THE VETERANS' CARD.
"IT IS ABOUT VALUE AND SELF WORTH, NOT ABOUT A PIECE OF PLASTIC," HE SAID.
"WE CARRY THESE CARDS FOR THE WHOLE OF OUR SERVICE AND WHEN WE LEAVE WE ARE REQUIRED TO HAND THEM IN.
PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IT IS A BAD THING.
IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF PLASTIC BUT IT REPRESENTS WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DID."
THE CONSERVATIVE MP PATRICK MERCER, FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER WITH THE WORCESTERSHIRE AND SHERWOOD FORESTERS REGIMENT, SAID:
"IT IS ABOUT BLOODY TIME.
AT LAST, A REASONABLE, SENSIBLE MINISTER (MR JONES) WHO LISTENS TO IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM.
" THE CATEGORIES IN THE FORCES DISCOUNT SCHEME CURRENTLY INCLUDE SOME RETRAINING, SPORTS CLUBS, CHILDCARE, INSURANCE, HOLIDAYS AND TRAVEL.
VETERANS AND SENIOR SOLDIERS HAVE CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A PREDICTED "EXPLOSION" OF TRAUMATISED TROOPS FROM RECENT CONFLICTS AND PROVIDE SPECIALIST MENTAL HEALTHCARE.
"NO ONE IS SUGGESTING THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM," MR JONES SAID, "BUT WE NEED A GROUNDED DEBATE TO UNDERSTAND IT."
HE ADMITTED THAT MANY FORMER SERVICEMEN WERE "LOST" IN THE NHS SYSTEM AND VOWED TO ENSURE EVERY GP WAS MADE TO RECORD WHETHER OR NOT A PATIENT HAD SERVED IN THE FORCES.
HOWEVER, HE REFUSED TO CONCEDE THAT FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL NEEDED SEPARATE, DEDICATED CARE AND RISKED THE WRATH OF CHARITIES BY SUGGESTING THEY SHOULD FUND PROVISION OF MILITARY HEALTH ADVISERS.
"COMBAT STRESS [THE CHARITY] GETS £3M OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY.
I DON'T THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO IT ALL. IT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY.
IT IS ABOUT THE SYSTEM WORKING BETTER."
THIS IS WHAT WOOTEN BASSETT WANTS
BRITISH LEGION CONTACTS
A MEMORY (BRIAN HEANEY) FROM "THE GREAT YARMOUTH MERCURY"
HEADLINES ARE MEANT TO CATCH THE EYE OF THE READER, OF COURSE, AND TO DRAW THE ATTENTION TO THE REPORT OR FEATURE BENEATH IT.
A RECENT ONE IN A BROADSHEET NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IS A CASE IN POINT:
“IF YOU LIVED THROUGH THE WAR, WOULDN'T YOU RATHER FORGET IT?”, IT ENQUIRED, ABOVE THE PERSONAL OPINION OF A YOUNGER JOURNALIST WHOSE IMPRESSION OF THE 1939-45 CONFLICT HE ADMITTED WAS DRAWN MAINLY FROM CINEMA FILMS.
HE ARGUED THAT A SOLDIER'S PALS WERE PROBABLY KILLED BEFORE THEIR EYES FAR FROM HOME, AND A CIVILIAN BACK IN BRITAIN HAD TO EAT POWDERED EGG.
“IT MUST HAVE BEEN AWFUL,”
HE WROTE, TONGUE IN CHEEK, THEN WONDERING SERIOUSLY WHY THERE WAS SUCH AN INTENSE CURRENT INTEREST IN REKINDLING THOSE SAD AND PAINFUL MEMORIES 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR BEGAN.
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE: FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVED THROUGH IT – EITHER ON ACTIVE SERVICE, OR AT HOME WITH THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF BOMBING RAIDS OR INVASION – IT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST DOMINANT FEATURES OF OUR LIVES FOR SIX WHOLE YEARS.
I WAS ONLY 11 WHEN PEACE CAME, BUT MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE OFTEN WAR-RELATED, AND I AM SURE AM NOT ALONE IN THAT.
IF YOU PUT THAT BROADSHEET WRITER'S QUESTION TO 85-YEAR-OLD VETERAN BRIAN HEANEY. OF MILDENHALL,
WITHOUT DOUBT HE WOULD REPLY EMPHATICALLY THAT HE IS DESPERATE TO FORGET THE WAR...BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN HAUNTED FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES BY ONE HORRIFIC INCIDENT WHILE HE WAS STATIONED IN YARMOUTH.
“WHEN I WAS 18 I WAS IN YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON WITH THE LST BATTALION SHERWOOD FORESTERS,” HE TELLS ME, THE RECOLLECTION STILL BRUTALLY VIVID AND UNDIMMED BY THE PASSAGE OF TIME.
“IN YARMOUTH WE WERE BILLETED AT THE INSTITUTION HOSPITAL (THE WORKHOUSE) OFF NORTHGATE STREET AND I WAS THE MEDICAL OFFICER'S DRIVER.
“ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY IN MAY 1943 WE GOT UP AT 5.30AM, HAD BREAKFAST, AND WENT ON DUTY, MANNING A BREN GUN MOUNTED ON A TRIPOD POSITIONED ON THE SHORE END OF THE BRITANNIA PIER, OUT TO CATCH FIGHTER-BOMBERS COMING IN LOW FROM THE EAST IN THE RAYS OF THE SUN.
DROPPING THEIR LOAD AND DISAPPEARING.
BUT ON THAT PARTICULAR MORNING, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. ONE FLEW IN AND ITS BOMB LANDED ON THIS HOTEL ON THE SEA FRONT, AND IT WAS IN RUINS.
“WE WERE ORDERED TO DIG IN THE RUBBLE TO GET THE MUTILATED BODIES OUT, SO WE CLAMBERED IN AND STARTED WORK. THE BODIES WERE BEING LAID OUT ON THE TENNIS COURT AS WE DUG THEM OUT OF THE RUBBLE – THEY WERE ALL YOUNG GIRLS.
“THERE WERE BODIES, AND ARMS AND LEGS AND TORSOS, ALL SEPARATE. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE. BODIES EVERYWHERE. IMAGINE – DOING THAT WHEN YOU'RE ONLY 18!
“WE WERE TOLD THERE WERE 73 DEAD; I HAVE THAT FIGURE OF 73 FIRMLY IMPLANTED IN MY MIND. WE WERE LED TO BELIEVE THEY WERE WRNS (NAVY); THEY WERE GIRLS IN UNIFORM. SOME OF THE VICTIMS WERE IN THEIR NIGHTWEAR, OR UNDERWEAR, OR PT CLOTHES.
“WE WERE GIVEN A TOT OF RUM EACH BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA OF GETTING THESE YOUNG GIRLS OUT OF THE RUBBLE OF THE BUILDING.
“I HAVE LIVED WITH ALL THIS SINCE 1943, AND I WANT TO LAY IT TO REST. AT 85 I WANT TO PUT ALL MY MEMORIES TO SLEEP.”
MR HEANEY WAS SPEAKING TO ME AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE SPENT A FEW HOURS IN THE BOROUGH LAST MONTH, DIVERTING HERE ON THE WAY HOME TO SUFFOLK FROM A DAY OUT IN CROMER. AT FIRST HIS INQUIRIES POINTED TO THE MARCH 1943 AIR RAID BY A SINGLE GERMAN PLANE, ITS BOMBS DEMOLISHING LARGE HOUSES AT THE QUEEN'S ROAD-NELSON ROAD JUNCTION, ONE OF WHICH WAS A HOSTEL OCCUPIED BY SLEEPING WRNS. THIRTEEN TRAPPED SERVICEWOMEN SURVIVED AND WERE DUG OUT OF THE DEBRIS, WHICH CAUGHT FIRE, BUT THE CASUALTY TOLL WAS SEVERE – EIGHT WOMEN DIED AND 27 WERE INJURED.
BUT HE WAS POSITIVE THE DATE WAS MAY, AND THE LOCATION NORTH DRIVE, CLOSE TO THE PIER WHERE HIS BREN GUN WAS POSITIONED. MR HEANEY PERSEVERED, AND ASCERTAINED THAT HIS NIGHTMARE WAS THE RESULT OF THE BLITZING OF WHITFIELD HOUSE (ANOTHER REPORT CALLS IT SEFTON HOUSE), A BILLET FOR MEMBERS OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE (ATS) GIRLS. EIGHTEEN FOCKE WULF 190S TOOK PART IN THAT RAID ON YARMOUTH, ARRIVING SO SWIFTLY AND LOW THAT THERE WAS NO TIME FOR THE AIR-RAID WARNING SIRENS TO WAIL.
TWENTY-SIX GIRLS LOST THEIR LIVES. THEY HAD BEEN DOING PHYSICAL RECREATION ON THE WELLESLEY ROAD RECREATION GROUND BEHIND THE HOSTEL WHEN THE HIT-AND-RUN ENEMY RAIDER ZOOMED OVER. ONE REPORT CLAIMS A 27TH GIRL TRIPPED AS THEY ALL DASHED FOR WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS THE SAFETY OF THE HOSTEL...AND SHE SURVIVED, WHILE THOSE WHO REACHED THE BUILDING ALL PERISHED.
THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF YARMOUTH'S WARTIME EXPERIENCES, CHIEF CONSTABLE CHARLES BOX DESCRIBED IT AS “GRIEVOUS LOSS OF LIFE.” IT HAS ALSO BEEN TERMED THE LARGEST SINGLE MILITARY LOSS OF SERVICEWOMEN. THE YOUNGEST VICTIM WAS A LOCAL GIRL, 19-YEAR-OLD LILLIAN GRIMMER, OF COBHOLM.
THE SITE IS NOW OCCUPIED BY THE SWIMMING POOL OF THE BURLINGTON PALM HOTEL. IN 1994 A MEMORIAL PLAQUE RECORDING THE TRAGEDY AND AND LISTING THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WAS UNVEILED AT THE HOTEL BY LADY SOAMES, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF WARTIME PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL.
ON THEIR DAY OUT MR AND MRS HEANEY ALSO WENT TO GORLESTON, BUT WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE DRILL HALL WHERE HE WAS BASED (IT WAS IN PRIORY STREET UNTIL DEMOLISHED, PERHAPS IN THE 1970S). “WE WERE BILLETED IN A ROW OF HOUSES FACING THE DRILL HALL; AT THAT TIME THE MTBS USED TO BE ANCHORED IN THE RIVER BELOW THERE. ALL THIS COMES BACK TO ME.”
SOON AFTER THE TRAGIC BOMBING OF THE ATS HOSTEL IN YARMOUTH, HE WAS SENT TO SCOTLAND AND FROM THERE POSTED TO NORTH AFRICA WHERE HE FOUGHT IN SEVERAL CAMPAIGNS BEFORE A MOVE TO ITALY, TAKING PART IN THE LIBERATION OF ROME. HE FINISHED AS A SERGEANT.
AFTER DEMOBILISATION IN 1947 HE BECAME A BUS DRIVER IN CHESTER, THEN A LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER, GPO ENGINEER AND TELEPHONE FITTER, WORKED WITH TV AERIALS AND FINALLY WAS A HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGINEER. THE COUPLE HAVE TWO CHILDREN.
AFTER LEARNING THAT THE NIGHTMARE HE EXPERIENCED WAS THE RESULT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATS HOSTEL, MR HEANEY VOWED TO VISIT YARMOUTH AGAIN TO HELP IN HIS QUEST TO EXORCISE THOSE THE GHOSTS THAT HAVE TORMENTED HIM FOR ALL OF HIS LONG ADULT LIFE.
A RECENT ONE IN A BROADSHEET NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IS A CASE IN POINT:
“IF YOU LIVED THROUGH THE WAR, WOULDN'T YOU RATHER FORGET IT?”, IT ENQUIRED, ABOVE THE PERSONAL OPINION OF A YOUNGER JOURNALIST WHOSE IMPRESSION OF THE 1939-45 CONFLICT HE ADMITTED WAS DRAWN MAINLY FROM CINEMA FILMS.
HE ARGUED THAT A SOLDIER'S PALS WERE PROBABLY KILLED BEFORE THEIR EYES FAR FROM HOME, AND A CIVILIAN BACK IN BRITAIN HAD TO EAT POWDERED EGG.
“IT MUST HAVE BEEN AWFUL,”
HE WROTE, TONGUE IN CHEEK, THEN WONDERING SERIOUSLY WHY THERE WAS SUCH AN INTENSE CURRENT INTEREST IN REKINDLING THOSE SAD AND PAINFUL MEMORIES 70 YEARS AFTER THE WAR BEGAN.
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE: FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVED THROUGH IT – EITHER ON ACTIVE SERVICE, OR AT HOME WITH THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF BOMBING RAIDS OR INVASION – IT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST DOMINANT FEATURES OF OUR LIVES FOR SIX WHOLE YEARS.
I WAS ONLY 11 WHEN PEACE CAME, BUT MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ARE OFTEN WAR-RELATED, AND I AM SURE AM NOT ALONE IN THAT.
IF YOU PUT THAT BROADSHEET WRITER'S QUESTION TO 85-YEAR-OLD VETERAN BRIAN HEANEY. OF MILDENHALL,
WITHOUT DOUBT HE WOULD REPLY EMPHATICALLY THAT HE IS DESPERATE TO FORGET THE WAR...BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN HAUNTED FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES BY ONE HORRIFIC INCIDENT WHILE HE WAS STATIONED IN YARMOUTH.
“WHEN I WAS 18 I WAS IN YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON WITH THE LST BATTALION SHERWOOD FORESTERS,” HE TELLS ME, THE RECOLLECTION STILL BRUTALLY VIVID AND UNDIMMED BY THE PASSAGE OF TIME.
“IN YARMOUTH WE WERE BILLETED AT THE INSTITUTION HOSPITAL (THE WORKHOUSE) OFF NORTHGATE STREET AND I WAS THE MEDICAL OFFICER'S DRIVER.
“ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY IN MAY 1943 WE GOT UP AT 5.30AM, HAD BREAKFAST, AND WENT ON DUTY, MANNING A BREN GUN MOUNTED ON A TRIPOD POSITIONED ON THE SHORE END OF THE BRITANNIA PIER, OUT TO CATCH FIGHTER-BOMBERS COMING IN LOW FROM THE EAST IN THE RAYS OF THE SUN.
DROPPING THEIR LOAD AND DISAPPEARING.
BUT ON THAT PARTICULAR MORNING, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. ONE FLEW IN AND ITS BOMB LANDED ON THIS HOTEL ON THE SEA FRONT, AND IT WAS IN RUINS.
“WE WERE ORDERED TO DIG IN THE RUBBLE TO GET THE MUTILATED BODIES OUT, SO WE CLAMBERED IN AND STARTED WORK. THE BODIES WERE BEING LAID OUT ON THE TENNIS COURT AS WE DUG THEM OUT OF THE RUBBLE – THEY WERE ALL YOUNG GIRLS.
“THERE WERE BODIES, AND ARMS AND LEGS AND TORSOS, ALL SEPARATE. YOU CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE. BODIES EVERYWHERE. IMAGINE – DOING THAT WHEN YOU'RE ONLY 18!
“WE WERE TOLD THERE WERE 73 DEAD; I HAVE THAT FIGURE OF 73 FIRMLY IMPLANTED IN MY MIND. WE WERE LED TO BELIEVE THEY WERE WRNS (NAVY); THEY WERE GIRLS IN UNIFORM. SOME OF THE VICTIMS WERE IN THEIR NIGHTWEAR, OR UNDERWEAR, OR PT CLOTHES.
“WE WERE GIVEN A TOT OF RUM EACH BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA OF GETTING THESE YOUNG GIRLS OUT OF THE RUBBLE OF THE BUILDING.
“I HAVE LIVED WITH ALL THIS SINCE 1943, AND I WANT TO LAY IT TO REST. AT 85 I WANT TO PUT ALL MY MEMORIES TO SLEEP.”
MR HEANEY WAS SPEAKING TO ME AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE SPENT A FEW HOURS IN THE BOROUGH LAST MONTH, DIVERTING HERE ON THE WAY HOME TO SUFFOLK FROM A DAY OUT IN CROMER. AT FIRST HIS INQUIRIES POINTED TO THE MARCH 1943 AIR RAID BY A SINGLE GERMAN PLANE, ITS BOMBS DEMOLISHING LARGE HOUSES AT THE QUEEN'S ROAD-NELSON ROAD JUNCTION, ONE OF WHICH WAS A HOSTEL OCCUPIED BY SLEEPING WRNS. THIRTEEN TRAPPED SERVICEWOMEN SURVIVED AND WERE DUG OUT OF THE DEBRIS, WHICH CAUGHT FIRE, BUT THE CASUALTY TOLL WAS SEVERE – EIGHT WOMEN DIED AND 27 WERE INJURED.
BUT HE WAS POSITIVE THE DATE WAS MAY, AND THE LOCATION NORTH DRIVE, CLOSE TO THE PIER WHERE HIS BREN GUN WAS POSITIONED. MR HEANEY PERSEVERED, AND ASCERTAINED THAT HIS NIGHTMARE WAS THE RESULT OF THE BLITZING OF WHITFIELD HOUSE (ANOTHER REPORT CALLS IT SEFTON HOUSE), A BILLET FOR MEMBERS OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE (ATS) GIRLS. EIGHTEEN FOCKE WULF 190S TOOK PART IN THAT RAID ON YARMOUTH, ARRIVING SO SWIFTLY AND LOW THAT THERE WAS NO TIME FOR THE AIR-RAID WARNING SIRENS TO WAIL.
TWENTY-SIX GIRLS LOST THEIR LIVES. THEY HAD BEEN DOING PHYSICAL RECREATION ON THE WELLESLEY ROAD RECREATION GROUND BEHIND THE HOSTEL WHEN THE HIT-AND-RUN ENEMY RAIDER ZOOMED OVER. ONE REPORT CLAIMS A 27TH GIRL TRIPPED AS THEY ALL DASHED FOR WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS THE SAFETY OF THE HOSTEL...AND SHE SURVIVED, WHILE THOSE WHO REACHED THE BUILDING ALL PERISHED.
THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF YARMOUTH'S WARTIME EXPERIENCES, CHIEF CONSTABLE CHARLES BOX DESCRIBED IT AS “GRIEVOUS LOSS OF LIFE.” IT HAS ALSO BEEN TERMED THE LARGEST SINGLE MILITARY LOSS OF SERVICEWOMEN. THE YOUNGEST VICTIM WAS A LOCAL GIRL, 19-YEAR-OLD LILLIAN GRIMMER, OF COBHOLM.
THE SITE IS NOW OCCUPIED BY THE SWIMMING POOL OF THE BURLINGTON PALM HOTEL. IN 1994 A MEMORIAL PLAQUE RECORDING THE TRAGEDY AND AND LISTING THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WAS UNVEILED AT THE HOTEL BY LADY SOAMES, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF WARTIME PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL.
ON THEIR DAY OUT MR AND MRS HEANEY ALSO WENT TO GORLESTON, BUT WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE DRILL HALL WHERE HE WAS BASED (IT WAS IN PRIORY STREET UNTIL DEMOLISHED, PERHAPS IN THE 1970S). “WE WERE BILLETED IN A ROW OF HOUSES FACING THE DRILL HALL; AT THAT TIME THE MTBS USED TO BE ANCHORED IN THE RIVER BELOW THERE. ALL THIS COMES BACK TO ME.”
SOON AFTER THE TRAGIC BOMBING OF THE ATS HOSTEL IN YARMOUTH, HE WAS SENT TO SCOTLAND AND FROM THERE POSTED TO NORTH AFRICA WHERE HE FOUGHT IN SEVERAL CAMPAIGNS BEFORE A MOVE TO ITALY, TAKING PART IN THE LIBERATION OF ROME. HE FINISHED AS A SERGEANT.
AFTER DEMOBILISATION IN 1947 HE BECAME A BUS DRIVER IN CHESTER, THEN A LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER, GPO ENGINEER AND TELEPHONE FITTER, WORKED WITH TV AERIALS AND FINALLY WAS A HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGINEER. THE COUPLE HAVE TWO CHILDREN.
AFTER LEARNING THAT THE NIGHTMARE HE EXPERIENCED WAS THE RESULT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATS HOSTEL, MR HEANEY VOWED TO VISIT YARMOUTH AGAIN TO HELP IN HIS QUEST TO EXORCISE THOSE THE GHOSTS THAT HAVE TORMENTED HIM FOR ALL OF HIS LONG ADULT LIFE.
FRIENDS
I AM CONTINUALLY REQUESTING THAT YOU PASS THE DETAILS OF THE MAIN BLOGSITE TO EVERYONE YOU MEET THAT WAS EX REGIMENT BE IT EITHER, "SHERWOOD FORESTERS" WORCESTER'S 1WFR OR NOW EVEN 2 MERCIAN, THIS SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE ALL OUR T.A. UNITS.
RECENT NEW VISITS ARE BEGINNING TO GENERATE SOME GOOD RESPONSES AND I AM FOLLOWING THESE UP WITH THE DELIVERY OF BUSINESS CARDS, TO CONTINUE THIS RESPONSE.
WE WERE POSTED TO MANY PLACES, AND GUYS WHO LEFT THE REGIMENT IN THEM SETTLED DOWN WERE THEY WERE, BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING OUT WITH LOCAL GIRLS AT THE TIME "COLCHESTER" IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES THAT HAS A GREAT MANY EX SHERWOOD FORESTER AND 1WFR IN IT.
KEEP LOOKING AT THE "WHO IS LOOKING FOR WHO" ARTICLE.
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RECENT NEW VISITS ARE BEGINNING TO GENERATE SOME GOOD RESPONSES AND I AM FOLLOWING THESE UP WITH THE DELIVERY OF BUSINESS CARDS, TO CONTINUE THIS RESPONSE.
WE WERE POSTED TO MANY PLACES, AND GUYS WHO LEFT THE REGIMENT IN THEM SETTLED DOWN WERE THEY WERE, BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING OUT WITH LOCAL GIRLS AT THE TIME "COLCHESTER" IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES THAT HAS A GREAT MANY EX SHERWOOD FORESTER AND 1WFR IN IT.
KEEP LOOKING AT THE "WHO IS LOOKING FOR WHO" ARTICLE.
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WFR
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GLEN CROSTONS THAILAND WALKABOUT
Hello,
Just under 48 hours to go now before the start of our major fund-raising event of 2009, the 900 km sponsored walk over just 30 days from Croston House Children's Home in Makrua Chae, Lamphun, to The Regents School in Banglamung, Chonburi. Please spare whatever you can to help me achieve my goal of raising 1.4 million baht this year to enable our Foundation to establish a permanent, purpose-built children's home here in Lamphun. Feel free to forward the attached sponsorship form to anyone you feel would be interested in helping us. You can follow my progress on my blog via our website
www.crostonhousechildrenshomethailand.org
and, hopefully, you should still be able to contact me on (66) 086-3857118. Regards,
Glenn
Just under 48 hours to go now before the start of our major fund-raising event of 2009, the 900 km sponsored walk over just 30 days from Croston House Children's Home in Makrua Chae, Lamphun, to The Regents School in Banglamung, Chonburi. Please spare whatever you can to help me achieve my goal of raising 1.4 million baht this year to enable our Foundation to establish a permanent, purpose-built children's home here in Lamphun. Feel free to forward the attached sponsorship form to anyone you feel would be interested in helping us. You can follow my progress on my blog via our website
www.crostonhousechildrenshomethailand.org
and, hopefully, you should still be able to contact me on (66) 086-3857118. Regards,
Glenn
FRIENDS
STILL LOOKING FOR THAT ELUSIVE BUT INVISIBLE FRIEND LETS ADD HIS AND YOUR NAME TO THE SITE IT MAY PAY DIVIDENDS
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SPLIT SECONDS
JUST A COMMON SOLDIER
HE WAS GETTING OLD AND PAUNCHY AND HIS HAIR WAS FALLING FAST,AND HE SAT AROUND THE LEGION, TELLING STORIES OF THE PAST.
OF A WAR THAT HE HAD FOUGHT IN AND THE DEEDS THAT HE HAD DONE,IN HIS EXPLOITS WITH HIS BUDDIES; THEY WERE HEROES, EVERY ONE.
AND THO' SOMETIMES, TO HIS NEIGHBORS, HIS TALES BECAME A JOKE,ALL HIS LEGION BUDDIES LISTENED, FOR THEY KNEW WHERE OF HE SPOKE.
BUT WE'LL HEAR HIS TALES NO LONGER FOR OLD BILL HAS PASSED AWAY, AND THE WORLD'S A LITTLE POORER, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
HE WILL NOT BE MOURNED BY MANY, JUST HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE,FOR HE LIVED AN ORDINARY AND QUITE UNEVENTFUL LIFE.
HELD A JOB AND RAISED A FAMILY, QUIETLY GOING HIS OWN WAY,AND THE WORLD WON'T NOTE HIS PASSING, THOUGH A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
WHEN POLITICIANS LEAVE THIS EARTH, THEIR BODIES LIE IN STATE,WHILE THOUSANDS NOTE THEIR PASSING AND PROCLAIM THAT THEY WERE GREAT.
PAPERS TELL THEIR WHOLE LIFE STORIES, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY WERE YOUNG,BUT THE PASSING OF A SOLDIER GOES UNNOTICED AND UNSUNG.
IS THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELFARE OF OUR LANDA GUY WHO BREAKS HIS PROMISES AND CONS HIS FELLOW MAN?
OR THE ORDINARY FELLOW WHO, IN TIMES OF WAR AND STRIFE,GOES OFF TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY AND OFFERS UP HIS LIFE?
A POLITICIAN'S STIPEND AND THE STYLE IN WHICH HE LIVES ARE SOMETIMES DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE SERVICE THAT HE GIVES.
WHILE THE ORDINARY SOLDIER, WHO OFFERED UP HIS ALL,IS PAID OFF WITH A MEDAL AND PERHAPS, A PENSION SMALL.
IT'S SO EASY TO FORGET THEM FOR IT WAS SO LONG AGO,THAT THE OLD BILLS OF OUR COUNTRY WENT TO BATTLE, BUT WE KNOW IT WAS NOT THE POLITICIANS, WITH THEIR COMPROMISE AND PLOYS,WHO WON FOR US THE FREEDOM THAT OUR COUNTRY NOW ENJOYS.
SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER, WITH YOUR ENEMIES AT HAND,WOULD YOU WANT A POLITICIAN WITH HIS EVER-SHIFTING STAND?
OR WOULD YOU PREFER A SOLDIER, WHO HAS SWORN TO DEFEND HIS HOME, HIS KIN AND COUNTRY AND WOULD FIGHT UNTIL THE END?
HE WAS JUST A COMMON SOLDIER AND HIS RANKS ARE GROWING THIN,BUT HIS PRESENCE SHOULD REMIND US WE MAY NEED HIS LIKE AGAIN.
FOR WHEN COUNTRIES ARE IN CONFLICT, THEN WE FIND THE SOLDIER'S PART IS TO CLEAN UP ALL THE TROUBLES THAT THE POLITICIANS START.
IF WE CANNOT DO HIM HONOR WHILE HE'S HERE TO HEAR THE PRAISE,THEN AT LEAST LET'S GIVE HIM HOMAGE AT THE ENDING OF HIS DAYS.
PERHAPS JUST A SIMPLE HEADLINE IN A PAPER THAT WOULD SAY,OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
OF A WAR THAT HE HAD FOUGHT IN AND THE DEEDS THAT HE HAD DONE,IN HIS EXPLOITS WITH HIS BUDDIES; THEY WERE HEROES, EVERY ONE.
AND THO' SOMETIMES, TO HIS NEIGHBORS, HIS TALES BECAME A JOKE,ALL HIS LEGION BUDDIES LISTENED, FOR THEY KNEW WHERE OF HE SPOKE.
BUT WE'LL HEAR HIS TALES NO LONGER FOR OLD BILL HAS PASSED AWAY, AND THE WORLD'S A LITTLE POORER, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
HE WILL NOT BE MOURNED BY MANY, JUST HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE,FOR HE LIVED AN ORDINARY AND QUITE UNEVENTFUL LIFE.
HELD A JOB AND RAISED A FAMILY, QUIETLY GOING HIS OWN WAY,AND THE WORLD WON'T NOTE HIS PASSING, THOUGH A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
WHEN POLITICIANS LEAVE THIS EARTH, THEIR BODIES LIE IN STATE,WHILE THOUSANDS NOTE THEIR PASSING AND PROCLAIM THAT THEY WERE GREAT.
PAPERS TELL THEIR WHOLE LIFE STORIES, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY WERE YOUNG,BUT THE PASSING OF A SOLDIER GOES UNNOTICED AND UNSUNG.
IS THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELFARE OF OUR LANDA GUY WHO BREAKS HIS PROMISES AND CONS HIS FELLOW MAN?
OR THE ORDINARY FELLOW WHO, IN TIMES OF WAR AND STRIFE,GOES OFF TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY AND OFFERS UP HIS LIFE?
A POLITICIAN'S STIPEND AND THE STYLE IN WHICH HE LIVES ARE SOMETIMES DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE SERVICE THAT HE GIVES.
WHILE THE ORDINARY SOLDIER, WHO OFFERED UP HIS ALL,IS PAID OFF WITH A MEDAL AND PERHAPS, A PENSION SMALL.
IT'S SO EASY TO FORGET THEM FOR IT WAS SO LONG AGO,THAT THE OLD BILLS OF OUR COUNTRY WENT TO BATTLE, BUT WE KNOW IT WAS NOT THE POLITICIANS, WITH THEIR COMPROMISE AND PLOYS,WHO WON FOR US THE FREEDOM THAT OUR COUNTRY NOW ENJOYS.
SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER, WITH YOUR ENEMIES AT HAND,WOULD YOU WANT A POLITICIAN WITH HIS EVER-SHIFTING STAND?
OR WOULD YOU PREFER A SOLDIER, WHO HAS SWORN TO DEFEND HIS HOME, HIS KIN AND COUNTRY AND WOULD FIGHT UNTIL THE END?
HE WAS JUST A COMMON SOLDIER AND HIS RANKS ARE GROWING THIN,BUT HIS PRESENCE SHOULD REMIND US WE MAY NEED HIS LIKE AGAIN.
FOR WHEN COUNTRIES ARE IN CONFLICT, THEN WE FIND THE SOLDIER'S PART IS TO CLEAN UP ALL THE TROUBLES THAT THE POLITICIANS START.
IF WE CANNOT DO HIM HONOR WHILE HE'S HERE TO HEAR THE PRAISE,THEN AT LEAST LET'S GIVE HIM HOMAGE AT THE ENDING OF HIS DAYS.
PERHAPS JUST A SIMPLE HEADLINE IN A PAPER THAT WOULD SAY,OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.
"WHO IS LOOKING FOR WHO"
SEEKER.............SEARCHING FOR.............INFO...........
JEFF BARLOW...............JED STONE ,
ANDY JAMES...JEFF MASON (FOUND), JOHN WALSH, JOHN BRADLEY...EX MORTARS.
DEREK (CHRIS)CHRISTIE...JOCK MORGAN,ROGER FITPATRICK, (FOUND) JIMMY BRENNEN, MALCOLM BROCKLEBANK.
LENNY GLOVER..JEFF GREAVES, SKIDDER SIMPSON
STEVE CAINE....CHRIS REA, MICK BARTON.
JAY HEMPSHEL.. RICH WOODS,PAUL SLANEY,MARK CHAPMAN.
MIKE OLIVANT..MALCOLM WINCHESTER, BRECON DEMO PLATOON.
ARCHIE HADLEY...SAM CARR, ROD TURNER, ???? GILBY B COY 6 PLT 1966-1970. GIB & TOBRUK
ROB TEGGIN.. KEITH SWINSCOE,BILLY TURNER, ROGER SEYMOUR.. B COY 64-67.
DEREK MARSH, RONALD ROWLAND, DERBY??
MICK MASON, MICKY TILFORD, LICHFIELD??
CHRIS SALES, PAUL SANSOME,MICK WARD.1958-1964
LEN BENNETT, DON SEXTON,BUNNY BANNISTER, BOB WHITLEY 1965-1972
GEOFF PREECE, PETER,(CHICO) MARRIOT, ROY BENSTEAD
FOUND WAITING FOR REPLIES
USE THE COMMENTS AREA TO PROVIDE ANY ANSWERS OR EMAIL ME.
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JEFF BARLOW...............JED STONE ,
ANDY JAMES...JEFF MASON (FOUND), JOHN WALSH, JOHN BRADLEY...EX MORTARS.
DEREK (CHRIS)CHRISTIE...JOCK MORGAN,ROGER FITPATRICK, (FOUND) JIMMY BRENNEN, MALCOLM BROCKLEBANK.
LENNY GLOVER..JEFF GREAVES, SKIDDER SIMPSON
STEVE CAINE....CHRIS REA, MICK BARTON.
JAY HEMPSHEL.. RICH WOODS,PAUL SLANEY,MARK CHAPMAN.
MIKE OLIVANT..MALCOLM WINCHESTER, BRECON DEMO PLATOON.
ARCHIE HADLEY...SAM CARR, ROD TURNER, ???? GILBY B COY 6 PLT 1966-1970. GIB & TOBRUK
ROB TEGGIN.. KEITH SWINSCOE,BILLY TURNER, ROGER SEYMOUR.. B COY 64-67.
DEREK MARSH, RONALD ROWLAND, DERBY??
MICK MASON, MICKY TILFORD, LICHFIELD??
CHRIS SALES, PAUL SANSOME,MICK WARD.1958-1964
LEN BENNETT, DON SEXTON,BUNNY BANNISTER, BOB WHITLEY 1965-1972
GEOFF PREECE, PETER,(CHICO) MARRIOT, ROY BENSTEAD
FOUND WAITING FOR REPLIES
USE THE COMMENTS AREA TO PROVIDE ANY ANSWERS OR EMAIL ME.
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FORESTERS
WOULD YOU KNOW WHO SHE WAS LOOKING AT??
ARE YOU ENTITLED TO A DEFERRED PENSION
WERE YOU SERVING ON 6 APRIL 1975 BUT DID NOT COMPLETE 22 YEARS? YOU MUST HAVE ALSO SERVED A FURTHER 5 YEARS AFTER THIS DATE
IF SO YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO A DEFERRED PENSION.
STEVE (DICKO)DICKENS £4,134 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £12,404 ALL INDEXED LINKED, AND OBTAINED WHEN THEY ARE 60
TAFFY O'SULLIVAN £1,878 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £5634
DENNIS O'BRIEN £1,878 PER ANNUM AND A LAMP SUM OF £5634
AND A PHONE CALL.
IF YOU WANT ANY MORE INFORMATION EMAIL OR RING ME (DETAILS ARE ON ONE OF THESE PAGES ) OR GO TO THE MOD SITE (LINK ON PAGE 1) AND LOOK UP VETERANS
IF SO YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO A DEFERRED PENSION.
UNDISCLOSED SUMS TO TANKY HARRISON, MARK HUTCHINGS,
SUCCESS SO FAR FOR PHIL SPEECHLEY £1676 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £5030.STEVE (DICKO)DICKENS £4,134 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £12,404 ALL INDEXED LINKED, AND OBTAINED WHEN THEY ARE 60
TAFFY O'SULLIVAN £1,878 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £5634
DENNIS O'BRIEN £1,878 PER ANNUM AND A LAMP SUM OF £5634
MICK LEEMING, £2738 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £8080
ATHOL DEEKIN, £2400 PER ANNUM AND A LUMP SUM OF £7400
MALCOLM HOLMES, NOT DISCLOSED
ARMED FORCES PENSION SCHEME, MAIL POINT 480 KENTIGERN HOUSE65 BROWN STREET, GLASGOW G2 8EX (WELL WORTH THE EFFORT FOR THE COST OF A SECOND CLASS STAMP.)AND A PHONE CALL.
IF YOU WANT ANY MORE INFORMATION EMAIL OR RING ME (DETAILS ARE ON ONE OF THESE PAGES ) OR GO TO THE MOD SITE (LINK ON PAGE 1) AND LOOK UP VETERANS
WELL SOMEONE THINKS SHE IS PRETTY
CONTACTS
USEFULL REGIMENTAL CONTACTS AND LOCAL NEWSPAPER LINKS ARE ON THE MAIN PAGE.
MUSIC
IF YOU FANCY LISTENING TO A SPECIFIC TUNE THEN LET ME KNOW I CAN ADD IT TO THE SITE JUST FOR YOU.
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PHOTOGRAPHS
I STILL KEEP PUSHING FOR MORE PHOTOGRAPHS
YOU ALL HAVE SOME TREASURED PHOTOGRAPH THAT YOU LOOK AT OFTEN, AND IT BRINGS BACK SOME GREAT MEMORIES.
WHY NOT SHARE THAT MEMORY WITH ALL OF US, IT MAY PROMPT, SOME OF THE GUYS IN THOSE PICTURES TO GET IN CONTACT WITH YOU.
MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WILL SAVE THAT PICTURE FOR EVER, PUTTING IT ONTO DISK WILL SAVE IT FROM FADING, GETTING SCRATCHED, AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE A RECORD OF YOU AND YOUR LIFE.
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YOU ALL HAVE SOME TREASURED PHOTOGRAPH THAT YOU LOOK AT OFTEN, AND IT BRINGS BACK SOME GREAT MEMORIES.
WHY NOT SHARE THAT MEMORY WITH ALL OF US, IT MAY PROMPT, SOME OF THE GUYS IN THOSE PICTURES TO GET IN CONTACT WITH YOU.
MORE IMPORTANTLY IT WILL SAVE THAT PICTURE FOR EVER, PUTTING IT ONTO DISK WILL SAVE IT FROM FADING, GETTING SCRATCHED, AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE A RECORD OF YOU AND YOUR LIFE.
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THEY FELL OF THE BACK OF A LORRY (BRIAN HEANEY)
ALL SUPPLIES FOR THE TROOPS WHO HAD LANDED ON THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD IN JANUARY OF 1944 HAD TO BE BROUGHT FROM NAPLES BY SUPPLY SHIP, AND BEING TOO LARGE TO DOCK IN THE PORT OF ANZIO HAD TO ANCHOR IN THE BAY.
A CONVOY OF DUKWS (AMPHIBIAN 6 WHEELER TRUCKS) WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE DOWN THE BEACH AND OUT TO THE SHIPS TO BE LOADED BY ROPE SLING WITH ALL THE FOOD, AMMO, FUEL AND ALL THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE NECESSARY TO KEEP AN ARMY IN ACTION SUPPLIED. THIS MEANT A CONSTANT STREAM OF THESE LORRIES COMING OUT OF THE SEA, UP THE BEACH AND THROUGH THE TOWN OF ANZIO TO THEIR DUMPS.
A GERMAN 208MM RAILWAY GUN CALLED “LEOPOLD” BUT CHRISTENED ANZIO ANNIE WAS AT A RAILWAY TUNNEL JUST SOUTH OF ROME SOME 35 MILES AWAY STARTED FIRING ON THE BEACHHEAD IN EARLY FEBRUARY AND EVERYONE WAS IN RANGE OF THIS FORMIDABLE WEAPON BUT THE TOWN OF ANZIO TOOK THE BRUNT OF THE ATTACKS.
TO KEEP THE STREETS FREE FOR AN EASY PASSAGE FOR THE DUKW CONVOYS ANYONE NOT ENGAGED IN THE FRONT LINE WOULD BE CALLED UPON TO DO RUBBLE CLEARANCE. THE HAZARDS OF THIS TASK WERE MADE MORE DANGEROUS BY THE HELL BENT DRIVING OF THE BLACK AMERICAN DRIVERS WHO WOULD SWING AROUND THE CORNERS AT BREAKNECK SPEEDS. THIS LED TO PART OF THEIR LOAD BECOMING DETACHED AND FALLING OFF.
ON ONE OCCASION , BEING AN ANTI-TANK CARRIER DRIVER I HAD DELIVERED MY 6PDR GUN TO ITS DESIGNATED SITE. I WAS INSTRUCTED TO RETURN TO F ECHELON AND UPON ARRIVAL I WAS TO MAKE UP A PARTY OF RUBBLE CLEARERS
IN ANZIO. THE SHELLING FROM ‘ANNIE’ HAD BEEN HEAVY AND THE TOWN ON THIS OCCASION WAS IN A PRETTY BAD STATE AND THE CONVOYS HAD A LOT OF DIFFICULTY IN GETTING THROUGH.
OUR PARTY OF CLEARERS WORKED HARD AND MADE A PATH FOR THE LORRIES AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THROUGH AND TO THEIR DUMPS. ONE DUKW CAME HURTLING AROUND A CORNER AND LOST THREE OR FOUR CASES FROM HIS LOAD. OUR PARTY PICKED UP THESE CASES AND CARRIED THEM BACK TO OUR CAMP AT F ECHELON WHERE WE PROCEEDED TO OPEN THEM.
MY CASE CONTAINED A DOZEN BOTTLES OF ‘BLACK LABEL JOHNNIE WALKER’ WHISKY, ANOTHER CASE CONTAINED FOUR 7LB TINS OF FRUIT COCKTAIL AND TWO OTHER CASES HELD TINS OF CANADIAN STREAKY BACON.
WE DECIDED TO SHARE OUR GOOD FORTUNE AND SO I PRESENTED OUR CO LT.
COL JIMMY HACKETT WITH THREE BOTTLES TO SHARE AMONG THE OFFICERS AND THREE BOTTLES TO CSM SAMMY TURLEY FOR THE WO,S AND SERGEANTS
AND THE REST WENT TO HQ AND S COYS SO WE ALL GOT A TASTE.
AFTER THIS I WAS ALWAYS TO BE KNOW AS ‘WHISKY HEANEY’, BUT MY EXCUSE WAS ‘THEY FELL OFF THE BACK OF A LORRY’.
BRIAN HEANEY, EX SGT 2ND BN. SHERWOOD FORESTERS.
A CONVOY OF DUKWS (AMPHIBIAN 6 WHEELER TRUCKS) WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE DOWN THE BEACH AND OUT TO THE SHIPS TO BE LOADED BY ROPE SLING WITH ALL THE FOOD, AMMO, FUEL AND ALL THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE NECESSARY TO KEEP AN ARMY IN ACTION SUPPLIED. THIS MEANT A CONSTANT STREAM OF THESE LORRIES COMING OUT OF THE SEA, UP THE BEACH AND THROUGH THE TOWN OF ANZIO TO THEIR DUMPS.
A GERMAN 208MM RAILWAY GUN CALLED “LEOPOLD” BUT CHRISTENED ANZIO ANNIE WAS AT A RAILWAY TUNNEL JUST SOUTH OF ROME SOME 35 MILES AWAY STARTED FIRING ON THE BEACHHEAD IN EARLY FEBRUARY AND EVERYONE WAS IN RANGE OF THIS FORMIDABLE WEAPON BUT THE TOWN OF ANZIO TOOK THE BRUNT OF THE ATTACKS.
TO KEEP THE STREETS FREE FOR AN EASY PASSAGE FOR THE DUKW CONVOYS ANYONE NOT ENGAGED IN THE FRONT LINE WOULD BE CALLED UPON TO DO RUBBLE CLEARANCE. THE HAZARDS OF THIS TASK WERE MADE MORE DANGEROUS BY THE HELL BENT DRIVING OF THE BLACK AMERICAN DRIVERS WHO WOULD SWING AROUND THE CORNERS AT BREAKNECK SPEEDS. THIS LED TO PART OF THEIR LOAD BECOMING DETACHED AND FALLING OFF.
ON ONE OCCASION , BEING AN ANTI-TANK CARRIER DRIVER I HAD DELIVERED MY 6PDR GUN TO ITS DESIGNATED SITE. I WAS INSTRUCTED TO RETURN TO F ECHELON AND UPON ARRIVAL I WAS TO MAKE UP A PARTY OF RUBBLE CLEARERS
IN ANZIO. THE SHELLING FROM ‘ANNIE’ HAD BEEN HEAVY AND THE TOWN ON THIS OCCASION WAS IN A PRETTY BAD STATE AND THE CONVOYS HAD A LOT OF DIFFICULTY IN GETTING THROUGH.
OUR PARTY OF CLEARERS WORKED HARD AND MADE A PATH FOR THE LORRIES AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THROUGH AND TO THEIR DUMPS. ONE DUKW CAME HURTLING AROUND A CORNER AND LOST THREE OR FOUR CASES FROM HIS LOAD. OUR PARTY PICKED UP THESE CASES AND CARRIED THEM BACK TO OUR CAMP AT F ECHELON WHERE WE PROCEEDED TO OPEN THEM.
MY CASE CONTAINED A DOZEN BOTTLES OF ‘BLACK LABEL JOHNNIE WALKER’ WHISKY, ANOTHER CASE CONTAINED FOUR 7LB TINS OF FRUIT COCKTAIL AND TWO OTHER CASES HELD TINS OF CANADIAN STREAKY BACON.
WE DECIDED TO SHARE OUR GOOD FORTUNE AND SO I PRESENTED OUR CO LT.
COL JIMMY HACKETT WITH THREE BOTTLES TO SHARE AMONG THE OFFICERS AND THREE BOTTLES TO CSM SAMMY TURLEY FOR THE WO,S AND SERGEANTS
AND THE REST WENT TO HQ AND S COYS SO WE ALL GOT A TASTE.
AFTER THIS I WAS ALWAYS TO BE KNOW AS ‘WHISKY HEANEY’, BUT MY EXCUSE WAS ‘THEY FELL OFF THE BACK OF A LORRY’.
BRIAN HEANEY, EX SGT 2ND BN. SHERWOOD FORESTERS.
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THE GIBRALTAR REUNION 2010
IT HAS BEEN AGREED THAT THE NEXT REUNION DINNER WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 1st MAY 2010 IN GIBRALTAR.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN PROPOSED THAT ON THE FRIDAY EVENING 30th APRIL THERE WILL BE GATHERING IN A LOCAL TAPAS BAR.
IN ORDER TO MAKE A GOOD LONG WEEK-END WHY NOT COME ON THE THURSDAY, GIVES YOU TIME FOR A BIT OF SITE SEEING FOLLOWED BY A BRILLIANT WEEK-END.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS GIVE HARRY WARD A RING, HE HAS SOME HOTELS ALREADY IN LINE AND HE KNOWS ROUGHLY THE COSTS,
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IT HAS ALSO BEEN PROPOSED THAT ON THE FRIDAY EVENING 30th APRIL THERE WILL BE GATHERING IN A LOCAL TAPAS BAR.
IN ORDER TO MAKE A GOOD LONG WEEK-END WHY NOT COME ON THE THURSDAY, GIVES YOU TIME FOR A BIT OF SITE SEEING FOLLOWED BY A BRILLIANT WEEK-END.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS GIVE HARRY WARD A RING, HE HAS SOME HOTELS ALREADY IN LINE AND HE KNOWS ROUGHLY THE COSTS,
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THE VIRUS,SCAMS,HOAX BOX, AND CONS (ALL CONFIRMED BY "SNOPES")
"LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL"
PRIOR TO SENDING WARNINGS OF VIRUS'S, BUGS TROJANS I ALWAYS GO TO THE FOLLOWING SITE:WWW.SNOPES.COMON HERE YOU WILL FIND EVERY THING LISTED THAT YOU MAY BE SENT VIA EMAIL THAT COULD BE HARMFULL TO YOUR COMPUTER.OVER THE PAST 3 WEEKS MYSELF AND MANY OTHERS HAVE BEEN BOMBARDED WITH WARNINGS ABOUT "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" BEING HARMFULL IT IS NOT IT IS A HOAX.CHECK OUT THE ABOVE SITE PRIOR TO SENDING WARNINGS
REAL VIRUS WARNINGCONFIRMED WITH "SNOPES"
THERE IS AN EMAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE"OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH"THIS HAS A TROJAN HORSE IN IT.
DELETE IMMEDIATELYTHE TROJAN STEALS ALL PASSWORDS AND ID BE WARNED
PRIOR TO SENDING WARNINGS OF VIRUS'S, BUGS TROJANS I ALWAYS GO TO THE FOLLOWING SITE:WWW.SNOPES.COMON HERE YOU WILL FIND EVERY THING LISTED THAT YOU MAY BE SENT VIA EMAIL THAT COULD BE HARMFULL TO YOUR COMPUTER.OVER THE PAST 3 WEEKS MYSELF AND MANY OTHERS HAVE BEEN BOMBARDED WITH WARNINGS ABOUT "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" BEING HARMFULL IT IS NOT IT IS A HOAX.CHECK OUT THE ABOVE SITE PRIOR TO SENDING WARNINGS
REAL VIRUS WARNINGCONFIRMED WITH "SNOPES"
THERE IS AN EMAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE"OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH"THIS HAS A TROJAN HORSE IN IT.
DELETE IMMEDIATELYTHE TROJAN STEALS ALL PASSWORDS AND ID BE WARNED
THE SIMON ASHTON HOAX
SIMON ASHTON HACKER HOAX
(TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET)
ACCORDING TO THIS WARNING MESSAGE, "ACCEPTING" AN EMAIL FROM A PERSON NAMED SIMON ASHTON, WHO USES THE EMAIL ADDRESS SIMON_25_@HOTMAIL.CO.UK, WILL ALLOW HIM TO HACK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT AS WELL AS THE ACCOUNTS OF OTHER PEOPLE ON YOUR EMAIL CONTACT LIST.
HOWEVER, THESE CLAIMS ARE UNFOUNDED.
THE "WARNING" IS JUST A MUTATION OF ANOTHER HACKER WARNING HOAX THAT TARGETS INSTANT MESSAGE USERS.
AS THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE INDICATES, THE TWO HOAXES ARE VERY SIMILAR:
IF SOMEBODY CALLED
BUM_TNOO7@HOTMAIL.COM ADDS YOU DON'T ACCEPT IT BECAUSE ITS A HACKER.
TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS THEM YOU GET THEM ON YOUR LIST HE'LL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID, COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU HATE THEM AND FAST CAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL THESE BOGUS HACKER WARNINGS ARE JUST VARIATIONS OF A LONG-RUNNING SERIES OF HOAXES LIKE THE ONE SHOWN BELOW THAT CLAIM THAT SIMPLY ADDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO YOUR LIST WILL INFECT YOU COMPUTER WITH A VIRUS:
SEND IT ON PLZ ITS URGENT!!! IF STUNNER_6T9@HOTMAIL.COM ADDS YOU TO YOUR MSN DONT ACCEPT IT.
ITS A VIRUS. TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR MSN BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS THEM U GET THE VIRUS TOO.PLZ SEND IT ON!!!!
CLEARLY, ALL THREE "WARNINGS" ARE VARIANTS OF THE SAME BASIC HOAX.
ALONG WITH THOSE LISTED HERE, THERE ARE LITERALLY DOZENS OF OTHER VERSIONS OF THE HOAX.
IN MANY CASES, THE VERSIONS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL EXCEPT FOR THE EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE SUPPOSED HACKER OR VIRUS.
ALL ARE EQUALLY NONSENSICAL AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED.APPARENTLY, FROM TIME TO TIME, PRANKSTERS REPLACE ONE OF THE EXISTING EMAIL ADDRESSES WITH A NEW ONE AND SEND IT ON.
THUS, AT ANY ONE TIME, THERE MAY BE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE HOAX CIRCULATING.LIKE OTHER VERSIONS, THIS MESSAGE IMPLIES THAT SIMPLY ACCEPTING THE ADDRESS INTO YOUR CONTACT LIST WILL GIVE THE HACKER ACCESS TO YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT ALONG WITH THE ACCOUNTS OF EVERYONE ELSE ON YOUR LIST AS WELL.THIS IS TECHNICALLY INFEASIBLE.
OF COURSE, A HACKER MIGHT USE CLEVER RUSES TO TRICK YOU INTO ACTUALLY INSTALLING MALWARE THAT ALLOWED HIM TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTER.
AND IF YOU INADVERTENTLY PROVIDED PERSONAL INFORMATION SUCH AS A USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO THE HACKER, HE COULD POSSIBLY ACCESS YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNTS AND WEBMAIL.
HOWEVER, JUST ADDING EVEN THE CLEVEREST HACKER'S ADDRESS TO YOUR CONTACT LIST WILL NOT, BY ITSELF, AFFORD HIM THIS LEVEL OF HACKING POWER.
SOME SORT OF FILE TRANSFER OR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WOULD, OF COURSE, BE NECESSARY.
THERE ARE ALSO NO REFERENCES TO A HACKER NAMED SIMON ASHTON OR HIS EMAIL ADDRESS ON ANY CREDIBLE ANTI-VIRUS OR INTERNET SECURITY WEBSITES.
BOGUS WARNINGS SUCH AS THIS DO NOTHING MORE THAN CLUTTER EMAIL INBOXES, BLOGS AND FORUMS WITH EVEN MORE UTTERLY USELESS INFORMATION.
(TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET)
ACCORDING TO THIS WARNING MESSAGE, "ACCEPTING" AN EMAIL FROM A PERSON NAMED SIMON ASHTON, WHO USES THE EMAIL ADDRESS SIMON_25_@HOTMAIL.CO.UK, WILL ALLOW HIM TO HACK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT AS WELL AS THE ACCOUNTS OF OTHER PEOPLE ON YOUR EMAIL CONTACT LIST.
HOWEVER, THESE CLAIMS ARE UNFOUNDED.
THE "WARNING" IS JUST A MUTATION OF ANOTHER HACKER WARNING HOAX THAT TARGETS INSTANT MESSAGE USERS.
AS THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE INDICATES, THE TWO HOAXES ARE VERY SIMILAR:
IF SOMEBODY CALLED
BUM_TNOO7@HOTMAIL.COM ADDS YOU DON'T ACCEPT IT BECAUSE ITS A HACKER.
TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS THEM YOU GET THEM ON YOUR LIST HE'LL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID, COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU HATE THEM AND FAST CAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL THESE BOGUS HACKER WARNINGS ARE JUST VARIATIONS OF A LONG-RUNNING SERIES OF HOAXES LIKE THE ONE SHOWN BELOW THAT CLAIM THAT SIMPLY ADDING AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO YOUR LIST WILL INFECT YOU COMPUTER WITH A VIRUS:
SEND IT ON PLZ ITS URGENT!!! IF STUNNER_6T9@HOTMAIL.COM ADDS YOU TO YOUR MSN DONT ACCEPT IT.
ITS A VIRUS. TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR MSN BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS THEM U GET THE VIRUS TOO.PLZ SEND IT ON!!!!
CLEARLY, ALL THREE "WARNINGS" ARE VARIANTS OF THE SAME BASIC HOAX.
ALONG WITH THOSE LISTED HERE, THERE ARE LITERALLY DOZENS OF OTHER VERSIONS OF THE HOAX.
IN MANY CASES, THE VERSIONS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL EXCEPT FOR THE EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE SUPPOSED HACKER OR VIRUS.
ALL ARE EQUALLY NONSENSICAL AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED.APPARENTLY, FROM TIME TO TIME, PRANKSTERS REPLACE ONE OF THE EXISTING EMAIL ADDRESSES WITH A NEW ONE AND SEND IT ON.
THUS, AT ANY ONE TIME, THERE MAY BE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE HOAX CIRCULATING.LIKE OTHER VERSIONS, THIS MESSAGE IMPLIES THAT SIMPLY ACCEPTING THE ADDRESS INTO YOUR CONTACT LIST WILL GIVE THE HACKER ACCESS TO YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT ALONG WITH THE ACCOUNTS OF EVERYONE ELSE ON YOUR LIST AS WELL.THIS IS TECHNICALLY INFEASIBLE.
OF COURSE, A HACKER MIGHT USE CLEVER RUSES TO TRICK YOU INTO ACTUALLY INSTALLING MALWARE THAT ALLOWED HIM TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTER.
AND IF YOU INADVERTENTLY PROVIDED PERSONAL INFORMATION SUCH AS A USERNAME AND PASSWORD TO THE HACKER, HE COULD POSSIBLY ACCESS YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNTS AND WEBMAIL.
HOWEVER, JUST ADDING EVEN THE CLEVEREST HACKER'S ADDRESS TO YOUR CONTACT LIST WILL NOT, BY ITSELF, AFFORD HIM THIS LEVEL OF HACKING POWER.
SOME SORT OF FILE TRANSFER OR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WOULD, OF COURSE, BE NECESSARY.
THERE ARE ALSO NO REFERENCES TO A HACKER NAMED SIMON ASHTON OR HIS EMAIL ADDRESS ON ANY CREDIBLE ANTI-VIRUS OR INTERNET SECURITY WEBSITES.
BOGUS WARNINGS SUCH AS THIS DO NOTHING MORE THAN CLUTTER EMAIL INBOXES, BLOGS AND FORUMS WITH EVEN MORE UTTERLY USELESS INFORMATION.
WATCH OUT THIER IS A THIEF ABOUT
SCAMS, HOAX'S VIRUS'S
NEW FACEBOOK SCAM WARNING:
FACEBOOK MEMBERS ARE BEING ADVISED NOT TO INSTALL APPLICATIONS IN THEIR PROFILES AFTER A SECOND ROGUE APP WAS SPOTTED WITHIN A WEEK.
EARLIER THIS WEEK A MESSAGE WAS CIRCULATED TO MANY MEMBERS CLAIMING THAT THEIR PROFILE CONTAINED ERRORS THAT NEEDED TO BE FIXED. IN ORDER TO FIX THE PROBLEM, YOU WERE ADVISED TO INSTALL THE ERROR CHECK SYSTEM APPLICATION.
A SECOND ROGUE APPLICATION, CALLED 'F A C E B O O K - - CLOSING DOWN!!!', HAS NOW BEEN SPOTTED.
TYPICALLY, MEMBERS RECEIVE A MESSAGE TELLING THEM THAT THEY HAVE CONTRAVENED THE TERMS OF USE OF THE SITE AND THEIR ACCOUNT IS TO BE CLOSED.
A LINK IN THE MESSAGE CLAIMED TO TAKE YOU TO AN EXPLANATION OF WHY THE ACCOUNT WAS TO BE CLOSED, BUT ACTUALLY PROMPTED THE INSTALLATION OF THE ROGUE APP. WHEN INSTALLED, IT SENDS THE SAME MESSAGE OUT TO ALL OF THE MEMBER'S FRIENDS.
ONE SECURITY FIRM SAID THAT FACEBOOK NEEDED TO OVERHAUL ITS APPLICATIONS POLICY.
"NO-ONE IS ULTIMATELY TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENT OR BEHAVIOUR OF APPLICATIONS SUCH AS THESE.
SURELY THESE TWO EVENTS IN JUST A SINGLE WEEK MEAN THAT IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT FACEBOOK REVIEWS ITS APPLICATION HOSTING POLICY," SAID TREND MICRO'S RIK FERGUSON.
"PREVENTION OF ROGUE APPLICATIONS WITH EXTREMELY DUBIOUS INTENT TO PROPAGATE FREELY WITHIN THE SITE IS NEEDED," HE CONTINUED.
SOPHOS' GRAHAM CLULEY WARNED OF THE DANGERS OF INSTALLING FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS.
"IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS COULD BE A NEW FAVOURED TRICK BEING USED BY SPAMMERS AND IDENTITY THIEVES TO BUILD UP THEIR DATABASES OF INTENDED TARGETS.
MY ADVICE TO FACEBOOK USERS IS TO THINK VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE ADDING ANY NEW INFORMATION.
FACEBOOK MEMBERS ARE BEING ADVISED NOT TO INSTALL APPLICATIONS IN THEIR PROFILES AFTER A SECOND ROGUE APP WAS SPOTTED WITHIN A WEEK.
EARLIER THIS WEEK A MESSAGE WAS CIRCULATED TO MANY MEMBERS CLAIMING THAT THEIR PROFILE CONTAINED ERRORS THAT NEEDED TO BE FIXED. IN ORDER TO FIX THE PROBLEM, YOU WERE ADVISED TO INSTALL THE ERROR CHECK SYSTEM APPLICATION.
A SECOND ROGUE APPLICATION, CALLED 'F A C E B O O K - - CLOSING DOWN!!!', HAS NOW BEEN SPOTTED.
TYPICALLY, MEMBERS RECEIVE A MESSAGE TELLING THEM THAT THEY HAVE CONTRAVENED THE TERMS OF USE OF THE SITE AND THEIR ACCOUNT IS TO BE CLOSED.
A LINK IN THE MESSAGE CLAIMED TO TAKE YOU TO AN EXPLANATION OF WHY THE ACCOUNT WAS TO BE CLOSED, BUT ACTUALLY PROMPTED THE INSTALLATION OF THE ROGUE APP. WHEN INSTALLED, IT SENDS THE SAME MESSAGE OUT TO ALL OF THE MEMBER'S FRIENDS.
ONE SECURITY FIRM SAID THAT FACEBOOK NEEDED TO OVERHAUL ITS APPLICATIONS POLICY.
"NO-ONE IS ULTIMATELY TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENT OR BEHAVIOUR OF APPLICATIONS SUCH AS THESE.
SURELY THESE TWO EVENTS IN JUST A SINGLE WEEK MEAN THAT IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT FACEBOOK REVIEWS ITS APPLICATION HOSTING POLICY," SAID TREND MICRO'S RIK FERGUSON.
"PREVENTION OF ROGUE APPLICATIONS WITH EXTREMELY DUBIOUS INTENT TO PROPAGATE FREELY WITHIN THE SITE IS NEEDED," HE CONTINUED.
SOPHOS' GRAHAM CLULEY WARNED OF THE DANGERS OF INSTALLING FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS.
"IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS COULD BE A NEW FAVOURED TRICK BEING USED BY SPAMMERS AND IDENTITY THIEVES TO BUILD UP THEIR DATABASES OF INTENDED TARGETS.
MY ADVICE TO FACEBOOK USERS IS TO THINK VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE ADDING ANY NEW INFORMATION.
ADDRESS BOOK AAAAAA@AAAAAA HOAX WARNING
EMAIL RECIEVED SAYING PUT AAAA@AAAA INTO YOUR ADDRESS BOOK WILL STOP WORMS GETTING INTO IT.
This foolish and potentially dangerous hoax has now been circulating for several years.
The message claims that putting a bogus email address as the first entry in your address book will thwart attempts by an email worm to propagate itself. According to the message, sending of the worm will be terminated because the first delivery will fail and the user will be alerted of the attempt to send the worm via an error message.
This version espouses "AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA" as the bogus address of choice.
Other versions extol the virtues of "!000000" as a first address book entry.
Either way, this "trick" is seriously flawed and will do nothing whatsoever to protect you from almost all modern worms.
These days, email worms are far too sophisticated to be controlled by such a simple procedure.
Very few modern email worms harvest email addresses solely from your email program's address book.
Most will scan the entire hard drive of the infected computer for email addresses and are therefore in no way reliant on address book entries.
Also, most worms will not send themselves to all addresses at once.
They are more likely to send a separately addressed message to each recipient and the addresses may not be used in the same order as they appear in an address book.
Thus, a fake first entry address will not stop a worm even if it did send messages from the address book sequentially.
The fake address will bounce, but other worm-laden messages will be sent without a problem.
And perhaps most importantly, many worms now use their own SMTP engine to send themselves, which means that they bypass your email program completely.
Basically, such a worm comes loaded with everything it needs to establish a connection with a mail server and send itself to any email addresses it has harvested from the infected computer.
Since the worm does not use an existing email application, the operator of the infected computer might not even be aware that a worm is propagating itself.
Even if some of the worm messages do bounce because of fake or invalid addresses, the user will not receive any sort of error message.
This strategy may have been somewhat effective for the relatively primitive email worms of days gone by. However, these days it is virtually useless.
In fact, rather than offer protection against worms, it may even make worm infections more likely.
The inherent danger of this hoax is that users who apply this method may relax their guard and neglect viable anti-virus strategies.
The message claims that if "everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about opening mail from family or friends".
However this claim is doubly flawed.
As explained above the "trick" is invalid and will not protect you from modern email worms. Moreover, many worms use address spoofing so that an email may not really be from a friend or family member, even if it appears to have his or her address in the "From:" field.
The only real protection against virus attack is to maintain a secure computing environment, run reliable and up-to-date anti-virus software and employ common sense.
If you receive this "tip", please take a moment to let the sender know that it is not a viable method of email worm protection and should not be forwarded.
This foolish and potentially dangerous hoax has now been circulating for several years.
The message claims that putting a bogus email address as the first entry in your address book will thwart attempts by an email worm to propagate itself. According to the message, sending of the worm will be terminated because the first delivery will fail and the user will be alerted of the attempt to send the worm via an error message.
This version espouses "AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA" as the bogus address of choice.
Other versions extol the virtues of "!000000" as a first address book entry.
Either way, this "trick" is seriously flawed and will do nothing whatsoever to protect you from almost all modern worms.
These days, email worms are far too sophisticated to be controlled by such a simple procedure.
Very few modern email worms harvest email addresses solely from your email program's address book.
Most will scan the entire hard drive of the infected computer for email addresses and are therefore in no way reliant on address book entries.
Also, most worms will not send themselves to all addresses at once.
They are more likely to send a separately addressed message to each recipient and the addresses may not be used in the same order as they appear in an address book.
Thus, a fake first entry address will not stop a worm even if it did send messages from the address book sequentially.
The fake address will bounce, but other worm-laden messages will be sent without a problem.
And perhaps most importantly, many worms now use their own SMTP engine to send themselves, which means that they bypass your email program completely.
Basically, such a worm comes loaded with everything it needs to establish a connection with a mail server and send itself to any email addresses it has harvested from the infected computer.
Since the worm does not use an existing email application, the operator of the infected computer might not even be aware that a worm is propagating itself.
Even if some of the worm messages do bounce because of fake or invalid addresses, the user will not receive any sort of error message.
This strategy may have been somewhat effective for the relatively primitive email worms of days gone by. However, these days it is virtually useless.
In fact, rather than offer protection against worms, it may even make worm infections more likely.
The inherent danger of this hoax is that users who apply this method may relax their guard and neglect viable anti-virus strategies.
The message claims that if "everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about opening mail from family or friends".
However this claim is doubly flawed.
As explained above the "trick" is invalid and will not protect you from modern email worms. Moreover, many worms use address spoofing so that an email may not really be from a friend or family member, even if it appears to have his or her address in the "From:" field.
The only real protection against virus attack is to maintain a secure computing environment, run reliable and up-to-date anti-virus software and employ common sense.
If you receive this "tip", please take a moment to let the sender know that it is not a viable method of email worm protection and should not be forwarded.
CREDIT CARD SCAMS
SCENE 1. THIS IS A NEW ONE.
PEOPLE SURE STAY BUSY TRYING TO CHEAT US, DON'T THEY? A FRIEND WENT TO THE LOCAL GYM AND PLACED HIS BELONGINGS IN THE LOCKER.
AFTER THE WORKOUT AND A SHOWER, HE CAME OUT, SAW THE LOCKER OPEN, AND THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, 'FUNNY,I THOUGHT I LOCKED THE LOCKER.
HMM, 'HE DRESSED AND JUST FLIPPED THE WALLET TO MAKE SURE ALL WAS IN ORDER. EVERYTHING LOOKED OKAY - ALL CARDS WERE IN PLACE. A FEW WEEKS LATER HIS CREDIT CARD BILL CAME - A WHOOPING BILL OF $14,000!
HE CALLED THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY AND STARTED YELLING AT THEM, SAYING THAT HE DID NOT MAKE THE TRANSACTIONS. CUSTOMER CARE PERSONNEL VERIFIED THAT THERE WAS NO MISTAKE IN THE SYSTEM AND ASKED IF HIS CARD HAD BEEN STOLEN.
'NO,'
HE SAID, BUT THEN TOOK OUT HIS WALLET, PULLED OUT THE CREDIT CARD,
AND YEP - YOU GUESSED IT - A SWITCH HAD BEEN MADE.
AN EXPIRED SIMILAR CREDIT CARD FROM THE SAME BANK WAS IN THE WALLET.
THE THIEF BROKE INTO HIS LOCKER AT THE GYM AND SWITCHED CARDS.
VERDICT:
THE CREDIT CARD ISSUER SAID SINCE HE DID NOT REPORT THE CARD MISSING EARLIER, HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY THE AMOUNT OWED TO THEM.
HOW MUCH DID HE HAVE TO PAY FOR ITEMS HE DID NOT BUY?
$9,000!
WHY WERE THERE NO CALLS MADE TO VERIFY THE AMOUNT SWIPED? SMALL AMOUNTS RARELY TRIGGER A 'WARNING BELL' WITH SOME CREDIT CARD COMPANIES. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT ALL THE SMALL AMOUNTS ADDED UP TO BIG ONE!
SCENE 2.
A MAN AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT PAID FOR HIS MEAL WITH HIS CREDIT CARD.
THE BILL FOR THE MEAL CAME, HE SIGNED IT,
AND THE WAITRESS FOLDED THE RECEIPT AND PASSED THE CARD ALONG.
USUALLY, HE WOULD JUST! TAKE IT AND PLACE IT IN HIS WALLET OR POCKET.
FUNNY ENOUGH, THOUGH, HE ACTUALLY TOOK A LOOK AT THE CARD AND, LO AND BEHOLD, IT WAS THE EXPIRED CARD OF ANOTHER PERSON.
HE CALLED THE WAITRESS AND SHE LOOKED PERPLEXED.
SHE TOOK IT BACK, APOLOGIZED, AND HURRIED BACK TO THE COUNTER UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE MAN.
ALL THE WAITRESS DID WHILE WALKING TO THE COUNTER WAS WAVE THE WRONG EXPIRED CARD TO THE COUNTER CASHIER, AND THE COUNTER CASHIER IMMEDIATELY LOOKED DOWN AND TOOK OUT THE REAL CARD.
NO EXCHANGE OF WORDS --- NOTHING!
SHE TOOK IT AND CAME BACK TO THE MAN WITH AN APOLOGY.
VERDICT:
MAKE SURE THE CREDIT CARDS IN YOUR WALLET ARE YOURS.
CHECK THE NAME ON THE CARD EVERY TIME YOU SIGN FOR SOMETHING AND/OR THE CARD IS TAKEN AWAY FOR EVEN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. MANY PEOPLE JUST TAKE BACK THE CREDIT CARD WITHOUT EVERLOOKING AT IT,
'ASSUMING' THAT IT HAS TO BE THEIRS.
FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, DEVELOP THE HABIT OF CHECKING YOUR CREDIT CARD EACH TIME IT IS RETURNED TO YOU AFTER A TRANSACTION
SCENE 3:
YESTERDAY I WENT INTO A PIZZA RESTAURANT TO PICK UP AN ORDER THAT I HAD CALLED IN.
I PAID BY USING MY VISA CHECK CARD WHICH, OF COURSE, IS LINKED DIRECTLY TO MY CHECKING ACCOUNT.
THE YOUNG MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER TOOK MY CARD, SWIPED IT, THEN LAID IT ON THE COUNTER AS HE WAITED FOR THE APPROVAL, WHICH IS PRETTY STANDARD PROCEDURE.
WHILE HE WAITED, HE ABOUT FIVE SECONDS LATER, I HEARD THE CHIME THAT TELLS YOU THAT THE PICTURE HAS BEEN SAVED.
NOW I'M STANDING THERE STRUGGLING WITH THE FACT THAT THIS BOY JUST TOOK A PICTURE OF MY CREDIT CARD.
YES, HE PLAYED IT OFF WELL, BECAUSE HAD WE NOT HAD THE SAME KIND OF PHONE,
I PROBABLY WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I IMMEDIATELY CANCELED THAT CARD AS I WAS WALKING OUT OF THE PIZZA PARLOR.
ALL I AM SAYING IS, BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS AT ALL TIMES. WHENEVER YOU ARE USING YOUR CREDIT CARD TAKE CAUTION AND DON'T BE CARELESS.
NOTICE WHO IS STANDING NEAR YOU AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING WHEN YOU USE YOUR CARD. BE AWARE OF PHONES, BECAUSE MANY HAVE A CAMERA PHONE THESE DAYS.
PEOPLE SURE STAY BUSY TRYING TO CHEAT US, DON'T THEY? A FRIEND WENT TO THE LOCAL GYM AND PLACED HIS BELONGINGS IN THE LOCKER.
AFTER THE WORKOUT AND A SHOWER, HE CAME OUT, SAW THE LOCKER OPEN, AND THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, 'FUNNY,I THOUGHT I LOCKED THE LOCKER.
HMM, 'HE DRESSED AND JUST FLIPPED THE WALLET TO MAKE SURE ALL WAS IN ORDER. EVERYTHING LOOKED OKAY - ALL CARDS WERE IN PLACE. A FEW WEEKS LATER HIS CREDIT CARD BILL CAME - A WHOOPING BILL OF $14,000!
HE CALLED THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY AND STARTED YELLING AT THEM, SAYING THAT HE DID NOT MAKE THE TRANSACTIONS. CUSTOMER CARE PERSONNEL VERIFIED THAT THERE WAS NO MISTAKE IN THE SYSTEM AND ASKED IF HIS CARD HAD BEEN STOLEN.
'NO,'
HE SAID, BUT THEN TOOK OUT HIS WALLET, PULLED OUT THE CREDIT CARD,
AND YEP - YOU GUESSED IT - A SWITCH HAD BEEN MADE.
AN EXPIRED SIMILAR CREDIT CARD FROM THE SAME BANK WAS IN THE WALLET.
THE THIEF BROKE INTO HIS LOCKER AT THE GYM AND SWITCHED CARDS.
VERDICT:
THE CREDIT CARD ISSUER SAID SINCE HE DID NOT REPORT THE CARD MISSING EARLIER, HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY THE AMOUNT OWED TO THEM.
HOW MUCH DID HE HAVE TO PAY FOR ITEMS HE DID NOT BUY?
$9,000!
WHY WERE THERE NO CALLS MADE TO VERIFY THE AMOUNT SWIPED? SMALL AMOUNTS RARELY TRIGGER A 'WARNING BELL' WITH SOME CREDIT CARD COMPANIES. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT ALL THE SMALL AMOUNTS ADDED UP TO BIG ONE!
SCENE 2.
A MAN AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT PAID FOR HIS MEAL WITH HIS CREDIT CARD.
THE BILL FOR THE MEAL CAME, HE SIGNED IT,
AND THE WAITRESS FOLDED THE RECEIPT AND PASSED THE CARD ALONG.
USUALLY, HE WOULD JUST! TAKE IT AND PLACE IT IN HIS WALLET OR POCKET.
FUNNY ENOUGH, THOUGH, HE ACTUALLY TOOK A LOOK AT THE CARD AND, LO AND BEHOLD, IT WAS THE EXPIRED CARD OF ANOTHER PERSON.
HE CALLED THE WAITRESS AND SHE LOOKED PERPLEXED.
SHE TOOK IT BACK, APOLOGIZED, AND HURRIED BACK TO THE COUNTER UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE MAN.
ALL THE WAITRESS DID WHILE WALKING TO THE COUNTER WAS WAVE THE WRONG EXPIRED CARD TO THE COUNTER CASHIER, AND THE COUNTER CASHIER IMMEDIATELY LOOKED DOWN AND TOOK OUT THE REAL CARD.
NO EXCHANGE OF WORDS --- NOTHING!
SHE TOOK IT AND CAME BACK TO THE MAN WITH AN APOLOGY.
VERDICT:
MAKE SURE THE CREDIT CARDS IN YOUR WALLET ARE YOURS.
CHECK THE NAME ON THE CARD EVERY TIME YOU SIGN FOR SOMETHING AND/OR THE CARD IS TAKEN AWAY FOR EVEN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. MANY PEOPLE JUST TAKE BACK THE CREDIT CARD WITHOUT EVERLOOKING AT IT,
'ASSUMING' THAT IT HAS TO BE THEIRS.
FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, DEVELOP THE HABIT OF CHECKING YOUR CREDIT CARD EACH TIME IT IS RETURNED TO YOU AFTER A TRANSACTION
SCENE 3:
YESTERDAY I WENT INTO A PIZZA RESTAURANT TO PICK UP AN ORDER THAT I HAD CALLED IN.
I PAID BY USING MY VISA CHECK CARD WHICH, OF COURSE, IS LINKED DIRECTLY TO MY CHECKING ACCOUNT.
THE YOUNG MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER TOOK MY CARD, SWIPED IT, THEN LAID IT ON THE COUNTER AS HE WAITED FOR THE APPROVAL, WHICH IS PRETTY STANDARD PROCEDURE.
WHILE HE WAITED, HE ABOUT FIVE SECONDS LATER, I HEARD THE CHIME THAT TELLS YOU THAT THE PICTURE HAS BEEN SAVED.
NOW I'M STANDING THERE STRUGGLING WITH THE FACT THAT THIS BOY JUST TOOK A PICTURE OF MY CREDIT CARD.
YES, HE PLAYED IT OFF WELL, BECAUSE HAD WE NOT HAD THE SAME KIND OF PHONE,
I PROBABLY WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN WHAT HAPPENED. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I IMMEDIATELY CANCELED THAT CARD AS I WAS WALKING OUT OF THE PIZZA PARLOR.
ALL I AM SAYING IS, BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS AT ALL TIMES. WHENEVER YOU ARE USING YOUR CREDIT CARD TAKE CAUTION AND DON'T BE CARELESS.
NOTICE WHO IS STANDING NEAR YOU AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING WHEN YOU USE YOUR CARD. BE AWARE OF PHONES, BECAUSE MANY HAVE A CAMERA PHONE THESE DAYS.
CLEVER CROOKS BEWARE
THESE CROOKS ARE GETTING VERY GOOD!
A LADY HAS CHANGED HER HABIT OF HOW SHE LISTS HER NAMES ON HER MOBILE TELEPHONE AFTER HER HANDBAG WAS STOLEN.
HER HANDBAG, WHICH CONTAINED HER MOBILE TELEPHONE, CREDIT CARD, PURSE, ETC.WAS STOLEN.
TWENTY MINUTES LATER SHE CALLED HER HUSBAND, FROM A PAY TELEPHONE TELLING HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
HER HUSBAND SAID, 'I RECEIVED YOUR TEXT ASKING ABOUT OUR PIN NUMBER AWHILE AGO AND I'VE JUST REPLIED TO IT'.
WHEN THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE BANK, THE STAFF TOLD THEM ALL THE MONEY WAS ALREADY WITHDRAWN.
THE THIEF HAD ACTUALLY USED THE STOLEN MOBILE TELEPHONE TO TEXT HER HUSBAND IN THE CONTACT LIST AND GOT HOLD OF THE PIN NUMBER.
WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES HE HAD WITHDRAWN ALL THE MONEY FROM THEIR BANK ACCOUNT.
MORAL OF THE LESSON:
DO NOT DISCLOSE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND THE PEOPLE IN YOURCONTACT LIST.
AVOID USING NAMES LIKE HOME, HONEY, HUBBY, SWEETHEART, MOM, DAD, ETC.,
AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, WHEN SENSITIVE INFORMATION IS BEING ASKED FOR THROUGH TEXTS, CONFIRM BY CALLING BACK.
ALSO, WHEN YOU ARE BEING TEXT BY FRIENDS OR FAMILY TO MEET THEM SOMEWHERE,BE SURE TO CALL BACK TO CONFIRM THAT THE MESSAGE CAME FROM THEM.
IF YOU DO NOT REACH THEM, BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT GOING PLACES TO MEET FAMILY AND FRIENDS' WHO TEXT YOU.
A LADY HAS CHANGED HER HABIT OF HOW SHE LISTS HER NAMES ON HER MOBILE TELEPHONE AFTER HER HANDBAG WAS STOLEN.
HER HANDBAG, WHICH CONTAINED HER MOBILE TELEPHONE, CREDIT CARD, PURSE, ETC.WAS STOLEN.
TWENTY MINUTES LATER SHE CALLED HER HUSBAND, FROM A PAY TELEPHONE TELLING HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
HER HUSBAND SAID, 'I RECEIVED YOUR TEXT ASKING ABOUT OUR PIN NUMBER AWHILE AGO AND I'VE JUST REPLIED TO IT'.
WHEN THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE BANK, THE STAFF TOLD THEM ALL THE MONEY WAS ALREADY WITHDRAWN.
THE THIEF HAD ACTUALLY USED THE STOLEN MOBILE TELEPHONE TO TEXT HER HUSBAND IN THE CONTACT LIST AND GOT HOLD OF THE PIN NUMBER.
WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES HE HAD WITHDRAWN ALL THE MONEY FROM THEIR BANK ACCOUNT.
MORAL OF THE LESSON:
DO NOT DISCLOSE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND THE PEOPLE IN YOURCONTACT LIST.
AVOID USING NAMES LIKE HOME, HONEY, HUBBY, SWEETHEART, MOM, DAD, ETC.,
AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, WHEN SENSITIVE INFORMATION IS BEING ASKED FOR THROUGH TEXTS, CONFIRM BY CALLING BACK.
ALSO, WHEN YOU ARE BEING TEXT BY FRIENDS OR FAMILY TO MEET THEM SOMEWHERE,BE SURE TO CALL BACK TO CONFIRM THAT THE MESSAGE CAME FROM THEM.
IF YOU DO NOT REACH THEM, BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT GOING PLACES TO MEET FAMILY AND FRIENDS' WHO TEXT YOU.
BE WARNED CREDIT CARD SCAM
BE ALERT LATEST CREDIT CARD SCAM.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...THIS ONE IS PRETTY SLICK SINCE THEY PROVIDE Y O U WITH ALL THE INFORMATION, EXCEPT THE ONE PIECE THEY WANT.
NOTE, THE CALLERS DO NOT ASK FOR YOUR CARD NUMBER; THEY ALREADY HAVE IT.
THIS INFORMATION IS WORTH READING.
BY UNDERSTANDING HOW THE VISA & MASTERCARD TELEPHONE CREDIT CARD SCAM WORKS, YOU'LL BE BETTER PREPARED TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES WAS CALLED ON WEDNESDAY FROM "VISA", AND I WAS CALLED ON FRIDAY FROM "MASTERCARD".
THE SCAM WORKS LIKE THIS: PERSON CALLING SAYS, "THIS IS (NAME), AND I'M CALLING FROM THE SECURITY AND FRAUD DEPARTMENT AT VISA.
MY BADGE NUMBER IS 12460. YOUR CARD HAS BEEN FLAGGED FOR AN UNUSUAL PURCHASE PATTERN, AND I'M CALLING TO VERIFY.
THIS WOULD BE ON YOUR VISA CARD WHICH WAS ISSUED BY(NAME OF BANK) DID YOU PURCHASE AN ANTI-TELEMARKETING DEVICE FOR £497.99 FROM A MARKETING COMPANY BASED IN LONDON ?" WHEN YOU SAY "NO", THE CALLER CONTINUES WITH, "THEN WE WILL BE ISSUING A CREDIT TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
THIS IS A COMPANY WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND THE CHARGES RANGE FROM £297 TO £497, JUST UNDER THE £500 PURCHASE PATTERN THAT FLAGS MOST CARDS.
BEFORE YOUR NEXT STATEMENT, THE CREDIT WILL BE APPLIED TO YOUR ACCOUNT. I JUST NEED TO CONFIRM YOUR ADDRESS (GIVES YOU YOUR ADDRESS), IS THATCORRECT?"YOU SAY "YES". THE CALLER CONTINUES - "I WILL BE STARTING AFRAUD INVESTIGATION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU SHOULD CALL THE NUMBER LISTED ON THE BACK OF YOUR CARD AND ASK FOR THE SECURITY & FRAUD DEPARTMENT.YOU WILL NEED TO REFER TO THIS CONTROL NUMBER. THE CALLER THEN GIVES YOU A6 DIGIT NUMBER. "DO YOU NEED ME TO READ IT AGAIN?"HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART ON HOW THE SCAM WORKS THE CALLER THEN SAYS, "I NEED TO VERIFY YOU ARE IN POSSESSION OF YOUR CARD."
HE'LL ASK YOU TO "TURN YOUR CARD OVER AND LOOK FOR SOME NUMBERS."
THERE ARE 7 NUMBERS; THE FIRST 4 ARE PART OF YOUR CARD NUMBER, THE NEXT 3 ARE THE SECURITY NUMBERS THAT VERIFY YOU ARE THE POSSESSOR OF THE CARD.
THESE ARE THE NUMBERS YOU SOMETIMES USE TO MAKE INTERNET PURCHASES TO PROVE YOU HAVE THE CARD.
THE CALLER WILL ASK YOU TO READ THE 3 NUMBERS TO HIM. AFTER YOU TELL THE CALLER THE 3 NUMBERS, HE'LLSAY, "THAT IS CORRECT, I JUST NEEDED TO VERIFY THAT THE CARD HAS NOT BEEN LOST OR STOLEN, AND THAT YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CARD.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?" AFTER YOU SAY, "NO," THE CALLER THEN THANKS YOU AND STATES, "DON'T HESITATE TO CALL BACK IF YOU DO", AND HANGS UP.YOU ACTUALLY SAY VERY LITTLE, AND THEY NEVER ASK FOR OR TELL YOU THE CARD NUMBER. BUT AFTER WE WERE CALLED, WE CALLED BACK WITHIN 20 MINUTES TO ASK A QUESTION. ARE WE GLAD WE DID! THE REAL VISA SECURITY DEPARTMENT TOLD US IT WAS A SCAM AND IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES A NEW PURCHASE OF £497.99 WAS CHARGED TO OUR CARD.LONG STORY - SHORT - WE MADE A REAL FRAUD REPORT AND CLOSED THE VISA ACCOUNT.
VISA IS REISSUING US A NEW NUMBER. WHAT THE SCAMMERS WANT IS THE 3-DIGIT PIN NUMBER ON THE BACK OF THE CARD. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM.
INSTEAD, TELL THEM YOU'LL CALL VISA OR MASTER CARD DIRECTLY FOR VERIFICATION OF THEIR CONVERSATION.
THE REAL VISA TOLD US THAT THEY WILL NEVER ASK FOR ANYTHING ON THE CARD AS THEY ALREADY KNOW THE INFORMATION SINCE THEY ISSUED THE CARD!
IF YOU GIVE THE SCAMMERS YOUR 3 DIGIT PIN NUMBER, YOU THINK YOU'RE RECEIVING A CREDIT.
HOWEVER, BY THE TIME YOU GET YOUR STATEMENT YOU'LL SEE CHARGES FOR PURCHASES YOU DIDN'T MAKE, AND BY THEN IT'S ALMOST TOO LATE AND/OR MORE DIFFICULT TO ACTUALLY FILE A FRAUD REPORT.WHAT MAKES THIS MORE REMARKABLE IS THAT ON FRIDAY, I GOT A CALL FROM A "JASON RICHARDSON OF MASTERCARD" WITH A WORD-FOR-WORD REPEAT OF THE VISA SCAM. THIS TIME I DIDN'T LET HIM FINISH.
I HUNG UP! WE FILED A POLICE REPORT, AS INSTRUCTED BY VISA.
THE POLICE SAID THEY ARE TAKING SEVERAL OF THESE REPORTS DAILY!
THEY ALSO URGED US TO TELL EVERYBODY WE KNOW THAT THIS SCAM IS HAPPENING .PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. BY INFORMING EACH OTHER, WE PROTECT EACH OTHER.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...THIS ONE IS PRETTY SLICK SINCE THEY PROVIDE Y O U WITH ALL THE INFORMATION, EXCEPT THE ONE PIECE THEY WANT.
NOTE, THE CALLERS DO NOT ASK FOR YOUR CARD NUMBER; THEY ALREADY HAVE IT.
THIS INFORMATION IS WORTH READING.
BY UNDERSTANDING HOW THE VISA & MASTERCARD TELEPHONE CREDIT CARD SCAM WORKS, YOU'LL BE BETTER PREPARED TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES WAS CALLED ON WEDNESDAY FROM "VISA", AND I WAS CALLED ON FRIDAY FROM "MASTERCARD".
THE SCAM WORKS LIKE THIS: PERSON CALLING SAYS, "THIS IS (NAME), AND I'M CALLING FROM THE SECURITY AND FRAUD DEPARTMENT AT VISA.
MY BADGE NUMBER IS 12460. YOUR CARD HAS BEEN FLAGGED FOR AN UNUSUAL PURCHASE PATTERN, AND I'M CALLING TO VERIFY.
THIS WOULD BE ON YOUR VISA CARD WHICH WAS ISSUED BY(NAME OF BANK) DID YOU PURCHASE AN ANTI-TELEMARKETING DEVICE FOR £497.99 FROM A MARKETING COMPANY BASED IN LONDON ?" WHEN YOU SAY "NO", THE CALLER CONTINUES WITH, "THEN WE WILL BE ISSUING A CREDIT TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
THIS IS A COMPANY WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND THE CHARGES RANGE FROM £297 TO £497, JUST UNDER THE £500 PURCHASE PATTERN THAT FLAGS MOST CARDS.
BEFORE YOUR NEXT STATEMENT, THE CREDIT WILL BE APPLIED TO YOUR ACCOUNT. I JUST NEED TO CONFIRM YOUR ADDRESS (GIVES YOU YOUR ADDRESS), IS THATCORRECT?"YOU SAY "YES". THE CALLER CONTINUES - "I WILL BE STARTING AFRAUD INVESTIGATION.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU SHOULD CALL THE NUMBER LISTED ON THE BACK OF YOUR CARD AND ASK FOR THE SECURITY & FRAUD DEPARTMENT.YOU WILL NEED TO REFER TO THIS CONTROL NUMBER. THE CALLER THEN GIVES YOU A6 DIGIT NUMBER. "DO YOU NEED ME TO READ IT AGAIN?"HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART ON HOW THE SCAM WORKS THE CALLER THEN SAYS, "I NEED TO VERIFY YOU ARE IN POSSESSION OF YOUR CARD."
HE'LL ASK YOU TO "TURN YOUR CARD OVER AND LOOK FOR SOME NUMBERS."
THERE ARE 7 NUMBERS; THE FIRST 4 ARE PART OF YOUR CARD NUMBER, THE NEXT 3 ARE THE SECURITY NUMBERS THAT VERIFY YOU ARE THE POSSESSOR OF THE CARD.
THESE ARE THE NUMBERS YOU SOMETIMES USE TO MAKE INTERNET PURCHASES TO PROVE YOU HAVE THE CARD.
THE CALLER WILL ASK YOU TO READ THE 3 NUMBERS TO HIM. AFTER YOU TELL THE CALLER THE 3 NUMBERS, HE'LLSAY, "THAT IS CORRECT, I JUST NEEDED TO VERIFY THAT THE CARD HAS NOT BEEN LOST OR STOLEN, AND THAT YOU STILL HAVE YOUR CARD.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?" AFTER YOU SAY, "NO," THE CALLER THEN THANKS YOU AND STATES, "DON'T HESITATE TO CALL BACK IF YOU DO", AND HANGS UP.YOU ACTUALLY SAY VERY LITTLE, AND THEY NEVER ASK FOR OR TELL YOU THE CARD NUMBER. BUT AFTER WE WERE CALLED, WE CALLED BACK WITHIN 20 MINUTES TO ASK A QUESTION. ARE WE GLAD WE DID! THE REAL VISA SECURITY DEPARTMENT TOLD US IT WAS A SCAM AND IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES A NEW PURCHASE OF £497.99 WAS CHARGED TO OUR CARD.LONG STORY - SHORT - WE MADE A REAL FRAUD REPORT AND CLOSED THE VISA ACCOUNT.
VISA IS REISSUING US A NEW NUMBER. WHAT THE SCAMMERS WANT IS THE 3-DIGIT PIN NUMBER ON THE BACK OF THE CARD. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM.
INSTEAD, TELL THEM YOU'LL CALL VISA OR MASTER CARD DIRECTLY FOR VERIFICATION OF THEIR CONVERSATION.
THE REAL VISA TOLD US THAT THEY WILL NEVER ASK FOR ANYTHING ON THE CARD AS THEY ALREADY KNOW THE INFORMATION SINCE THEY ISSUED THE CARD!
IF YOU GIVE THE SCAMMERS YOUR 3 DIGIT PIN NUMBER, YOU THINK YOU'RE RECEIVING A CREDIT.
HOWEVER, BY THE TIME YOU GET YOUR STATEMENT YOU'LL SEE CHARGES FOR PURCHASES YOU DIDN'T MAKE, AND BY THEN IT'S ALMOST TOO LATE AND/OR MORE DIFFICULT TO ACTUALLY FILE A FRAUD REPORT.WHAT MAKES THIS MORE REMARKABLE IS THAT ON FRIDAY, I GOT A CALL FROM A "JASON RICHARDSON OF MASTERCARD" WITH A WORD-FOR-WORD REPEAT OF THE VISA SCAM. THIS TIME I DIDN'T LET HIM FINISH.
I HUNG UP! WE FILED A POLICE REPORT, AS INSTRUCTED BY VISA.
THE POLICE SAID THEY ARE TAKING SEVERAL OF THESE REPORTS DAILY!
THEY ALSO URGED US TO TELL EVERYBODY WE KNOW THAT THIS SCAM IS HAPPENING .PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. BY INFORMING EACH OTHER, WE PROTECT EACH OTHER.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION
STROKE:REMEMBER THE 1ST THREE LETTERS....S.T.R.
THIS IS CONFIRMED BY “SNOPES” AS TRUE.
IF YOU GO TO THIS SITE YOU CAN LEARN MORE.
MY NURSE FRIEND SENT THIS AND ENCOURAGED ME TO POST IT AND SPREAD THE WORD.
I AGREE.
IF EVERYONE CAN REMEMBER SOMETHING THIS SIMPLE, WE COULD SAVE SOME FOLKS, SERIOUSLY, PLEASE READ.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
DURING A BBQ, A FRIEND STUMBLED AND TOOK A LITTLE FALL - SHE ASSURED EVERYONE THAT SHE WAS FINE (THEY OFFERED TO CALL PARAMEDICS) .
SHE SAID SHE HAD JUST TRIPPED OVER A BRICK BECAUSE OF HER NEW SHOES.THEY GOT HER CLEANED UP AND GOT HER A NEW PLATE OF FOOD.
WHILE SHE APPEARED A BIT SHAKEN UP, INGRID WENT ABOUT ENJOYING HERSELF THE REST OF THE EVENING.
INGRID'S HUSBAND CALLED LATER TELLING EVERYONE THAT HIS WIFE HAD BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL - (AT 6:00 PM INGRID PASSED AWAY.)
SHE HAD SUFFERED A STROKE AT THE BBQ.
HAD THEY KNOWN HOW TO IDENTIFY THE SIGNS OF A STROKE, PERHAPS INGRID WOULD BE WITH US TODAY.
SOME DON'T DIE.
THEY END UP IN A HELPLESS, HOPELESS CONDITION INSTEAD.
IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE TO READ THIS...A NEUROLOGIST SAYS THAT IF HE CAN GET TO A STROKE VICTIM WITHIN 3 HOURS HE CAN TOTALLY REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF A STROKE..TOTALLY.
HE SAID THE TRICK WAS GETTING A STROKE RECOGNIZED, DIAGNOSED, AND THEN GETTING THE PATIENT MEDICALLY CARED FOR WITHIN 3 HOURS, WHICH IS TOUGH.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE:
THANK GOD FOR THE SENSE TO REMEMBER THE '3' STEPS, STR .
READ AND LEARN!
SOMETIMES SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE ARE DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE LACK OF AWARENESS SPELLS DISASTER.
THE STROKE VICTIM MAY SUFFER SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE WHEN PEOPLE NEARBY FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE.
NOW DOCTORS SAY A BYSTANDER CAN RECOGNIZE A STROKE BY ASKING THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS:
S *ASK THE INDIVIDUAL TO SMILE.
T *ASK THE PERSON TO TALK AND SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (COHERENTLY)(I.E. IT IS SUNNY OUT TODAY)
R *ASK HIM OR HER TO RAISE BOTH ARMS.
IF HE OR SHE HAS TROUBLE WITH ANY ONE OF THESE TASKS, CALL EMERGENCY NUMBER IMMEDIATELYAND DESCRIBE THE SYMPTOMS TO THE DISPATCHER.
NEW SIGN OF A STROKE --------
STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE NOTE:
ANOTHER 'SIGN' OF A STROKE IS THIS: ASK THE PERSON TO 'STICK' OUT HIS TONGUE.. IF THE TONGUE IS 'CROOKED', IF IT GOES TO ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER,THAT IS ALSO AN INDICATION OF A STROKE.
THIS IS CONFIRMED BY “SNOPES” AS TRUE.
IF YOU GO TO THIS SITE YOU CAN LEARN MORE.
MY NURSE FRIEND SENT THIS AND ENCOURAGED ME TO POST IT AND SPREAD THE WORD.
I AGREE.
IF EVERYONE CAN REMEMBER SOMETHING THIS SIMPLE, WE COULD SAVE SOME FOLKS, SERIOUSLY, PLEASE READ.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
DURING A BBQ, A FRIEND STUMBLED AND TOOK A LITTLE FALL - SHE ASSURED EVERYONE THAT SHE WAS FINE (THEY OFFERED TO CALL PARAMEDICS) .
SHE SAID SHE HAD JUST TRIPPED OVER A BRICK BECAUSE OF HER NEW SHOES.THEY GOT HER CLEANED UP AND GOT HER A NEW PLATE OF FOOD.
WHILE SHE APPEARED A BIT SHAKEN UP, INGRID WENT ABOUT ENJOYING HERSELF THE REST OF THE EVENING.
INGRID'S HUSBAND CALLED LATER TELLING EVERYONE THAT HIS WIFE HAD BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL - (AT 6:00 PM INGRID PASSED AWAY.)
SHE HAD SUFFERED A STROKE AT THE BBQ.
HAD THEY KNOWN HOW TO IDENTIFY THE SIGNS OF A STROKE, PERHAPS INGRID WOULD BE WITH US TODAY.
SOME DON'T DIE.
THEY END UP IN A HELPLESS, HOPELESS CONDITION INSTEAD.
IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE TO READ THIS...A NEUROLOGIST SAYS THAT IF HE CAN GET TO A STROKE VICTIM WITHIN 3 HOURS HE CAN TOTALLY REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF A STROKE..TOTALLY.
HE SAID THE TRICK WAS GETTING A STROKE RECOGNIZED, DIAGNOSED, AND THEN GETTING THE PATIENT MEDICALLY CARED FOR WITHIN 3 HOURS, WHICH IS TOUGH.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE:
THANK GOD FOR THE SENSE TO REMEMBER THE '3' STEPS, STR .
READ AND LEARN!
SOMETIMES SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE ARE DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE LACK OF AWARENESS SPELLS DISASTER.
THE STROKE VICTIM MAY SUFFER SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE WHEN PEOPLE NEARBY FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS OF A STROKE.
NOW DOCTORS SAY A BYSTANDER CAN RECOGNIZE A STROKE BY ASKING THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS:
S *ASK THE INDIVIDUAL TO SMILE.
T *ASK THE PERSON TO TALK AND SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (COHERENTLY)(I.E. IT IS SUNNY OUT TODAY)
R *ASK HIM OR HER TO RAISE BOTH ARMS.
IF HE OR SHE HAS TROUBLE WITH ANY ONE OF THESE TASKS, CALL EMERGENCY NUMBER IMMEDIATELYAND DESCRIBE THE SYMPTOMS TO THE DISPATCHER.
NEW SIGN OF A STROKE --------
STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE NOTE:
ANOTHER 'SIGN' OF A STROKE IS THIS: ASK THE PERSON TO 'STICK' OUT HIS TONGUE.. IF THE TONGUE IS 'CROOKED', IF IT GOES TO ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER,THAT IS ALSO AN INDICATION OF A STROKE.
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