Carnyx

PS Richard Hillary, the Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain where he was dreadfully wounded, was one of the pro-motion people. (View Post)

Quite a few of them would have been "public school" boys and from the more Greyfriars-impersonating grammars - so already through the OTC mill, and a prime target for officer cadet training… (View Post)

Two millennia. Essex too. The Brits certainly thought so in AD60-61. (View Post)

No, I never do, outside a military history context. But for some unaccountable reason PBUnionists asnd PBRightists often assume we in Scotland think of little else but blue paint, bare bottoms and Au… (View Post)

Analytical failure, though, one has to comment. Insufficiency of data. TSE didn't say he did it on expenses, did he? (View Post)