Avatars - What is the significance of yours?

Mine is a picture of Lt Woods formelry Metropolitan police officer, served with 1st Airlanding Regiment at Arnhem and was Killed in Action

The other three on my signature were all former Metropolitan police officers
who paid the ulitmate price

Lest We Forget

Andy

 

Andy,

Here you go. It could be another John Howard, of course, but at least I'd know one way or the other!

 

Wow, i've got the signeture of Dick Winters, Bill Gaurnere, Buck Compton and Don Malarkey. Should we start a thread for picture of peoples signetures?

 

Chindit

Can attached of John Howards signature. I think you'll agree they are remarkably similar!

Regards Andy

 

Yep, I do - many thanks for posting that, Andy

 

Mine is my dad, photographed at the end of the Italian campaign in 1945 just before he left 24th Field Regiment RA. He was bound for India for glider training, to drop in a FOO team for the invaison of Japan. Thankfully that never happened.

 

Mine's the insignia of one of my personal hero's - the Hussard de la Mort, The french fighter Ace and (possibly) the first aviator (along with his navigator Francois Coli) to fly the Atlantic (to be yet proven) - Charles Nungesser.

Dave

 

I don't have one... yet.

 

I don't have one... yet.

And what is stopping you Erik.

Expecting something poignant here.

 

Mine is the shoulder patch for the 76th Infantry Division, my grandfather's division. He was in the 417th Infantry Regiment, Co. C.
The division's battle cry was "Onaway!" Which in addition to the aforementioned also explains my screen name.

 

And mine is thanks to Owen (hence the donkey)...

 

Worried what you lot will do to me now.

Good job I'm considering changing my avi anyway.

 

Recently changed mine to a view of Stirling from the top of Dumyat hill. A few feet below the camera lie memorial plaques to the 7th & 8th Bns Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, the castle being the RHQ. There is also a giant concrete replica of the regiment's cap badge on site too.

 

I just like Groucho.

 

No 1 Squadron (Royal) Indian Air Force - a cracking good unit

Sqn Ldr KK Majumdar DFC 1942
Fg Offr AM Engineer DFC 1942
Sqn Ldr Arjan Singh DFC 1944
Flt Lt Ram Singh MBE 1945
Fg Offr AR Pandit DFC 1945
Fg Offr BR Rao DFC 1945
Sqn Ldr Rajaram DFC 1945
Fg Offr KN Kak DFC 1945
Fg Offr PS Gupta DFC 1945
Fg Offr MN Balsara DFC 1945
Flt Lt HN Chatterjee DFC 1945
Fg Offr NK Shitoley DFC 1945
WO H Singh MBE 1945

 

I use a favorite British Commonwealth war poster...the Commonwealth fighting together.

At other places, I use a road sign from "Shield Up!" web page of US 22 West, which is the main highway near where I live and the number of former Yankee pitching ace Roger Clemens when he was with the ballclub.

 

The RNPS badge,

a great uncle of mine served on minesweepers.

Can't find one for boom defence which my grandads served in.

 

poppy. Enough said