Fossick #484
A Team-Hunt.
Forecast rain and more rain ! Chance of thunder storms ~
Met up with DM and headed around 07:30
Headed to the Dump site ~ gain now having to work hard for the relics ~ DM wandered out of the area and more into the Camps and did very well with cluster of Small silvers.
We were shadowed by Interlopers ~ I think they had been there as several Beer bottles were gone ~ but why blokes you don't claim jump at 10:00 in the morning ! LOL
As I said to Dwayne we best make sure there is nothing left ~
But I picked up three HBT US "Burst of Victory " 13 Star US Army buttons ~
I dwelled in the Trash site all the period of the hunt ~
Midday it poured and I was drenched ~but hey no problems ~ soon dried out ~ but we called it a day and headed back as the rain continued over the site area ~ as wide ribbon if cloud ~determined to drive us out !
Still two more days to make this one of the BEST EVER months in variety of relics. ( A florin or two would round it out nicely ~ NAH!! One of those Gold Sovereigns ~!! )
I did some research and found out a little more and the Marines ~ the US Army and Navy had different variances of these buttons~
These would appear to be US Army ~ No such luck that they are US Marines ~
( I think they were mostly based down The Brisbane team's way ~ and Melbourne! I believe they were based on the Melbourne Cricket stadium just on the edge of the CBD !)
Australian Diggers training exercises at Mt Garnet with US 503 rd Paras ~ 1942.
The 503 Rd parachute regt. was based at Gordonvale ~ Terry and I worked the farm several times but found very little as it is a Cane farm and cane farmers~ level the paddocks each cane season and push the tops levels into the near by Creeks ~
BUT the 503Rd Paras did train on the Tablelands and they regularly did training drops onto the Tablelands ~ we even know the Paddocks they parachuted into at Tinaroo. They would drop their kit of on a specific farm and then force march all the back down the Gillies Mountain to Home base about 35 kilometres ~
I have already had several comments that these wire supplied to the Australians with pants and kit ~ or the Diggers traded them or even pinched them ~( After all the Australian Digger was renowned for collecting Souvenirs !)
All starting to sound like De Ja Vue ~ and My ~ the story of the Great Britain General Service buttons I / we have found ~
But I proven the case that were in fact 52 plus 5 Indians British Officers Embedded with the Aust 9th divisions ~ I even found a grave marker for a British Officer who "died" in the fight again the Japanese in New Guinea, and is buried at the Australind War grave cemetery at Port Moresby.
Thirty two british awaiting Embarkation ~ probably back to India and Burma ~ at Townsville QLD after being embedded with the Aust 9 Th Division based on the Atherton tablelands 1944
SHAGGY RIDGE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-10.
7308 CAPTAIN H. HOOK, ROYAL DECCAN HORSE (1)
CAPTAIN A.J.C. STANTON, 14/20TH KINGS HUSSARS (2)
TWO ENGLISH OFFICERS SERVING WITH "C" COMPANY, 2/9TH INFANTRY BATTALION, PICTURED ON THE TOP OF SHAGGY RIDGE, THEY BELONG TO A PARTY OF 50 BRITISH OFFICERS FROM INDIA WHO ARE ATTACHED TO AUSTRALIAN UNITS IN FORWARD AREAS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE OF JUNGLE FIGHTING IN NEW GUINEA.
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