Hats off to the (presumably) Coldstream Guards band for this musical thumbing of the nose at one of the world’s leading financiers / exporters of Islamist terror:
Via Bruce Gottfred, Autonomous Source. Also noted at Daimnation!
Hats off to the (presumably) Coldstream Guards band for this musical thumbing of the nose at one of the world’s leading financiers / exporters of Islamist terror:
Via Bruce Gottfred, Autonomous Source. Also noted at Daimnation!
IWM_Centenary: #PhotoOfTheDay – Australian soldiers drawing water from the village pump; Fleurbaix, May 1916: http://t.co/NzVFNl7U #WWI
IWM_Centenary: LCpl Harry van Tromp was killed at Vimy on 23 May 1916. This photo was taken on his last day in England: http://t.co/mr0vo9Gm Faces of #WWI
IWM_Centenary: Private Bernard Cooke was born in Brighton, but moved to Canada & joined the CEF. Add to his details in Faces of #WWI - http://t.co/yLWxSCBj
ukwarcabinet: Eden: I propose to invite M. Molotov to consider a new starting-point of a Treaty of Mutual Assistance http://t.co/aHv2VWDm
IWM_Centenary: #OnThisDay 1916, Haig sent this memo to the Adjutant General asking for the best day to start the Somme offensive: http://t.co/Qe5EHDJR #WWISurface observations (METAR) & forecasts (TAF) for Port George VI Airfield:
Surface observations (METAR) & forecasts (TAF) for Malton Airport:
I believe a UK military band, perhaps the same one, once played the theme from “Bridge Across the River Kwai” on the occassion of the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister.
These little covert raspberries of defiance are hilarious.
Was it the actual movie theme, or the well-known Colonel Bogey on Parade?
It wasn’t the Brits.
Be proud, men.