Dennis said:

Dennis R's Afternoon Joke. What's the healthiest insect? A vitamin Bee.

A lot of small Arab settlements were attacked, turned into farms and filled with Jews from Europe.

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Dennis, I am thinking you were a part of the UK contingent? You know your stuff of what happened around the time. You guys had a prick of a job and could never get an outcome that would be satisfactory to all parties. It is a very little known story/piece of history. Have you ever seen the BBC series 'The Promise'?

Dennis said:

Dennis R's Afternoon Joke. What's the healthiest insect? A vitamin Bee.

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cute joke and bees are cute too

CraigF said:

Dennis, I am thinking you were a part of the UK contingent? You know your stuff of what happened around the time. You guys had a prick of a job and could never get an outcome that would be satisfactory to all parties. It is a very little known story/piece of history. Have you ever seen the BBC series 'The Promise'?

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No, I will see if it is loaded on the computer, I will tell you of a strange thing that happened one day, After reading a book about 4 men reaching Dunkirk, in one of the chapters 40 men of the of B Coy 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regt were captured by the SS and put in a barn, ( this was the one in Jerusalem) they were taken out 6 at a time and shot, after an officer had complained they shot him threw hand grenades and machine gunned and set the barn on fire Four men managed to escape and that's how the atrocity was found out, anyway I started the history of the second battalion but there was not much said about being in Jerusalem, now comes the interesting part, the next part was a list of all the military people killed whilst serving in Jerusalem, I came to our casualty who I think was named Cook and I think the date was the 3rd March now the strange part allowing for time difference I was reading the list the day he died.

Thank you Dennis that was a lovely joke to tell my grandies.

Dennis said:

After my Birthday Monday I began going through my life, being Easter at the w/e my memory went back 76 years to when I was an 18/19 yrs old on Active Service in Jerusalem, we left there a day or two before it became Israel on the Saturday, unfortunately we lost one of our mates during this time and at the end of our lining up to leave a Cpl. received a bad wound in the chest, both of these incidents was the result of sniper fire.

Dennis R's Morning Sick Joke. Why did Piglet look in the Toilet? HE was looking for Pooh.

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Sounds like you’ve trodden some rough roads. It can’t be easy to relive those memories, thank you and take care