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Old 30-10-15, 03:22
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Some of these guns ended up in small memorial parks and towns in central West NSW .... some even disappeared into collectors hands ..oops shhhh
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Some of these guns ended up in small memorial parks and towns in central West NSW .... some even disappeared into collectors hands ..oops shhhh
Yes Mike, there is even one in my shed. Two at Mordialloc, one in Orange, one at Bandiana, one at Pucka and one in the Imperial War Museum in London. All told there are about 27 known to exist now.

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Yes Mike, there is even one in my shed. Two at Mordialloc, one in Orange, one at Bandiana, one at Pucka and one in the Imperial War Museum in London. All told there are about 27 known to exist now.

Rick.

Does that include the one at Cargo, a village between Orange and Canowindra ? There was another one on the roadside on the road to Forbes from Orange ? I must have seen at least five of them in memorial parks up that way . Problem is they are usually stuck to the ground , concrete is so hard to break up
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Does that include the one at Cargo, a village between Orange and Canowindra ? There was another one on the roadside on the road to Forbes from Orange ? I must have seen at least five of them in memorial parks up that way . Problem is they are usually stuck to the ground , concrete is so hard to break up
To reuse the words of my father - if you are going to steal something be obvious. Make it look like you have a reason to be doing whatever. (Not that a son should necessarily follow everything a father imparts ....)

(Helmets on! War story time.)

There was a WWI German field gun in the traffic tri-angle in my hometown, and during WWII the sentiment was that the Germans deserved to get some of their steel back. A work crew dismantled the gun, and in the process fired a large nut off the recoil mechanism into the brick wall of a nearby building. Two generations later the town acquired a cute little 75mm Pack Howitzer. One snowy morning I observed the parallel tracks of a narrow "cart" and was not the least bit surprised to see the howitzer aimed up at somebody's university residence window. It has since been lashed down better, but not nearly as solidly as a 25 Pdr can be secured.
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How the world is so small.

http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov...rticle/459.htm

This article mentions Mike Cecil MLU member, the woman standing next to the gun Janice Munt, I knew back in 1973 , she went to my high school and became a member of state parliament . Alex McPherson gets a photo credit, he is a long term VMVC member from about age 12.

I made contact with Janice again ( O'Connell was her unmarried name) , must have been 10 years ago, I was invited to lunch at parliament house woo hoo ! I said "the guards would not let me through the front doors of that building" A working class kid she was from Highett .
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I think the weight of the Guns in that article need amending.
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Old 08-07-17, 16:58
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You are right, Jack.

2910 pounds total equipment weight for a 'Gun, QF, 25-pdr Short (Aust)' equates to 1319.976 kilograms (x factor is 0.4536), ie 1320 kgs.

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