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From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Desert Rats
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:00:53 +0100
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Yes Joan I always thought it was the eight army as well.

My second cousin was one - funny thing is in 1959 he sold his farm in
Cornwall and went to live in Australia

Take Care

Beth
----- Original Message -----
From: "joan reichardt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Desert Rats


> Hi, Elizabeth, That would be my suggestion, too. We used to have Queen
> Alexandra Rose day in England to raise money for the nursing service - she
> was the long suffering wife of Edward 7th. These days she would have
> kicked his sorry rear- end round the block but then she just smiled and
> got
> on with life!!
> I think I was the one who started the 'Desert Rat' thing when I read that,
> contrary to my belief that it referred to the British Eighth Army, it was
> the Australians who started using that name. I think at the time I was
> told
> I was wrong, and since I was not at all sure, that was fine. Cheers, Joan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
> To: <>; <>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Desert Rats
>
>
>> Sounds like the Queen's Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
>> That
>> would be the QA on the badge
>>
>> Click on to this website
>> http://www.army.mod.uk/qaranc/qaranc_assn/index.htm
>>
>> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3929/is_199907/ai_n8870956
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayodeok/62299566/in/set-1345045/
>>
>> http://www.crcmh.com/history.htm
>>
>> http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/corps/QARANC.htm#unif
>>
>> Sorry cant find the shoulder badge - will look again for you.
>>
>> Take Care
>>
>> Beth
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kathleen" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Desert Rats
>>
>>
>>> Hi, talking of 'shouder flashes' I would like help on i.d- ing my aunts
>>> uniform that she wore up until she became a war bride to my Canadian
>>> uncle.i
>>> have pictures that show a badge with a 'flash design ' on it. and what
>>> looks
>>> like a QA on her cap. Believed to have been stationed in Colchester
>>> Essex.
>>> Her name was Peggy Quigley. She married into the Chapman family.i can
>>> send
>>> a
>>> photo if you are good at identifying uniforms. Thank you. Kathleen.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:
>>> [mailto:]
>>> On Behalf Of Elizabeth Angela Guyver
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:22 AM
>>> To:
>>> Subject: [WARBRIDES] Desert Rats
>>>
>>> Some time ago someone was talking about Desert Rats and said it was the
>>> name
>>> given to the Australian Soldiers. Sorry cant remember who it was,
>>> otherwise
>>> I would have emailed them direct. I have just found the site about the
>>> 7th
>>> Army and it explains it better than I did at the time.
>>>
>>> The men took to the Jerboa and adopted the nick-name of "The Desert
>>> Rats".
>>> It is worth pointing out that the term 'Desert Rats' is often used to
>>> describe any soldier of the Desert Army or men that fought in Tobruk.
>>> Indeed
>>> the Australians have a Rats of Tobruk Association, but the only true
>>> "Desert
>>> Rats" are the men who served in the 7th Armoured Division, whose
>>> shoulders
>>> or vehicles wore the Jerboa emblem. This new sign is shown above Left. A
>>> picture of the shoulder flashes can be found on the Memorabilia page.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I cant even remember how we came to be talking about them on here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Take Care
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Beth
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