At a mess dinner in 1984 I met a 100 year old veteran of the Boer War who had been a little creative with his birth date and enlisted to fight in South Africa at the age of 16. It is just conceivable that as a child he could have met a Waterloo veteran of the same age.
The Crown on Netflix is doing particularly well, not least with some wonderful old aeroplanes, all CGI of course, but impressive nonetheless, and some more real cars and motorcycles. Looks accurate clothing wise a well. The only howler I have spotted is Major James Hewitt wearing captain's insignia.
Sorry, I messed that up. What I intended to say is that I totally agree; my Polish and Romanian friends speak and particularly write far better English than many state educated Anglophones in UK.
I happened upon this site whilst researching the comparative merits of new and vintage Alpha MA-1 jackets to replace my worn-to-death twelve year old one. I am a Canadian living in UK who is, in the words of Groucho Marx, "approaching forty from the wrong side". I have served in the British army...
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