I'm sorry if I seem to fly the flag here but, in conversation with a lady member today, I found that, suddenly, my whole life (well, the bit in Russia) has been exposed on Google to all & sundry!! This happened to a lady member last year.
I recently told one of our members to Google 'tim elkington' to see why I - rather than 100s of others - survived. When I checked that link out tonight, I found that somehow, GV SAP has got in there. The only blottable word on that site was when I first joined, & said that I had flown with the ace Safonov. The comment , from a Canadian member, which still creases me, was Holy Crap!!
Sorry Tim it's not making any sense to me, can you fill me in with all the abbreviations...(BofB)...GV SAP... blottable...ace Safonov? But I got the Holy Crap!! bit. ;D
Roy, Tim'll be tucked up in his virtuous now, but I guess.......Battle of Britain;blottable = rude word; 'ace' means ace pilot, presume Safonov is/was a Russian?....
Go on then, Ower Tim - tell me I'm wrong ;) ;D
;D Thanks Lish but GV SAP ??? Still puzzled :-\
Oh, dear - sorry, Roy! When one tries to abbreviate/understate, it always confuses.
1. Assume you've Googled Me - not the other TEs.
2. One of son's excerpts shows how my life was saved in the BofB. Not just temporarily but, because I didn't get out of hospital until late September, I missed the really devastating period.
3. The blottable bit? See the 2GvSAP link below.
4. 2GvSAP - see the web sites below son's. And pic below. The Regiment that we fought with in Northern Russia. Now subject of a US created flight sim site.
5. Well done Lishka!
6. But to suddenly find oneself exposed to the world like that - everything I had said for 2 years - email & all - was a bit salutary?
7. If undelivered, return to sender!!
Ah yes it all makes sense now and a lovely tribute from your son too.
Roy, I reckon that Tim did a spell at Bletchley Park, is still constrained by the Official Secrets Act, but sometimes likes to tease us......
WOT? - this??
My Dad was stationed at Bletchley Park during the war. Worked on the enigma project.
Small world!!
Another funny?
Just checked the 2GvSAP link - for a quite different purpose - and found that it had gone!! Didn't realise that sites changed places as freely as that.
So - for anyone who thinks I'm barking, here it is again.
LATER - see below where we finally catch up with it!
When I signed the OSA in '61, I was informed, very seriously that it was for life!
Tim, have read about you on various sites, always proud to think I "know" you even if the connection is pretty tenuous - but aren't you an old romantic keeping Anna's hankie all this time!! Lovely :-*
Regarding OSA, when I joined the Inland Revenue in 1959 I worked for an ex high ranking oOfficer in the Marines(or was it Paratroopers?) and he had me read it out and sign it - being naive I did but I am sure it was only he who did it!! Or did I dream it all...........
You can't b....y win!! That only leads to the sim.
This is the bit that reveals all - I think.
http://www.2gvsap.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1333&start=0 All 13 pages of it!!
Wicker - pronounced Anya - of course!!
I went for an interview at the Inland revenue in 1986 and had to sign the OSA before they would even interview me. Luckily they didn't want me - don't think I would have been very happy having a job I couldn't tell the OH about when I got home.
Dear Tim ;D
You Told me to Google After Posting the Piece about Holland
But innocent... Did nothing other than Look at the Site Honest :o
So it aint me Tim ;D ;D ;D
No, no pack drill, Mike!!
But it does make one think a bit, doesn't it??
Secrecy? Must just add this one.
Before sailing for Russia, they issued us with tropical kit.
Very subtle!!
Double bluff maybe, Tim?? ::)
I have to say that, on their return from Russia, & having re-equipped with Spitfires, the squadron did go to the Middle East!
Without me, thankfully - because most of the pilots were lost.