Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Hey just a quick drop in to hope none of our Aussie club members were affected by the wild fires going down there. I read 108 deaths! Take care mates. Our prayers are with you.

al

Likewise Al I was just thinking the same thing.

Take care ANZAC brothers.

Some of our boys are heading over to offer what help they can I see. Man it looks bad I hope the wind drops soon

Best regards to the Aussies





General de Brigade Knox
Baron de l'Empire
2e Regiment Gardes d'Honneur (the regaled pheasants)
La Jeune Garde
CO. 1er Brigade, III Division Cavalerie Legere, III Corps Armee du Nord
http://www.aspire.co.nz/colinknoxnwc.htm

Thanks for your thoughts. I'm, thankfully, a long way from the scene, but there are a lot of people affected by it.

Lt Colonel Neville Worland
Chef d'Etat-Major
Ier Corps de Réserve de Cavalerie
Army du Nord

Seems like it's been rough down under. Didn't you folks just suffer thru a bout of nasty flooding in some areas as well?



Major General Ed Blackburn
Commanding Second Div, II Corps, AAA
3rd Bn / 1st Regiment of Foot Guards

Well, it's a big place (the fires are about 1800 kilometres south of me, the floods are about the same to the north of me), but yes the climate can be tiresome sometimes. One of our poets wrote "I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping plains, of something something something, of drought and flooding rain."

Lt Colonel Neville Worland
Chef d'Etat-Major
Ier Corps de Réserve de Cavalerie
Army du Nord

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Neville Worland</i>
<br />..but yes the climate can be tiresome sometimes. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">You should come and live in the UK for a while, that might alter your perspective. We don't even get a proper summer! Just joking. I've been watching with horror the fires on the news. My thoughts and prayers are with our Aussie cousins...

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Gentlemen, for the full poem, go to

http://users.chariot.net.au/~kday/australiansongs.html (or copy into your browser). The site also includes Waltzing Matilda (and an American-English explanation of the words).

I live a few hundreds of kms South of Victoria, with a rather large lot of water between. I have a few friends & relations tied up in what's happening (moxt of my friends are OK, if a bit singed or not involved at present, & my relations are in Albury - near NSW border - so should also be OK).

It is not good news and some of the fires are still burning.

As a politician said today: "If you have a God, please pray for Victoria." Personally, they need it!



General Mark Oakford
Duc de Smolensk Comte d'Autun
Commandant L'Ecole Militaire
Commander, Régimènt Polish Lanciers de la Garde

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by zinkyusa</i>
<br />Seems like it's been rough down under. Didn't you folks just suffer thru a bout of nasty flooding in some areas as well?



Major General Ed Blackburn
Commanding Second Div, II Corps, AAA
3rd Bn / 1st Regiment of Foot Guards




<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Yeah but that was two states to the north, so fortunately they weren't right on the back of each other.

I live in Sydney so I, for one, am fine.

Sous-Lieutenant Daniel Irwin
V Corps
l'Armee du Rhine