Discuss Sgt Talaiyasi Labalaba in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Heads up chaps: The BBC have recorded a programme about Sgt Talaiyasi Labalaba SAS (Killed in action at Marbat) as part of their Radio 4 Series New Elizabethans. The programme is being transmitted on Tues ...
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Sgt Talaiyasi Labalaba
Heads up chaps: The BBC have recorded a programme about Sgt Talaiyasi Labalaba SAS (Killed in action at Marbat) as part of their Radio 4 Series New Elizabethans. The programme is being transmitted on Tues 31July at 1245 hrs.
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Mirbat
Originally Posted by No_Duff 
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Why us Colour Sergeant, why us?
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Yeah, I wouldn't have known otherwise. Originally Posted by simroy
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I've always had a fascination with Mirbat. It must have been the most trouser staining incident possible but also the ultimate testament to the difference a well trained British soldier can do. Originally Posted by No_Duff
Also one of the best war films never made. (The Korean war and Falklands have been done but not good enough.)Steven Seagull is a rotten, intenet bully, a seventh generation cunt, he was born in a state of misery, half-cooked with a mean streak a mile wide. Over the years he has developed a passion for human oddities, presdigitation, tattooing and torture.
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Should be interesting. I've read a number of accounts of the battle. One of the most readable is a 'factional' one in 'They Stood in the Door'.
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Which one? Originally Posted by steven seagull A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Kipling: EPITAPHS 1914
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As a tattoo collector I can also only envy the exclusivity of that one.
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Does anyone remember the film "A hill in Korea", I believe Stanley Baker was in it, a tribute to the National Servicemen who fought out there there.
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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - The New Elizabethans, Talaiasi Labalaba
I will listen to that on i-player - I've just bought the new book on Mirbat so will be interestingLife should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,camel blue in one hand,wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOW!!! WHAT A RIDE !!!!!!!!!!!
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HMV do it for a tenner IIRC Michael Caine is in it as a bit part. Originally Posted by Manley Steven Seagull is a rotten, intenet bully, a seventh generation cunt, he was born in a state of misery, half-cooked with a mean streak a mile wide. Over the years he has developed a passion for human oddities, presdigitation, tattooing and torture.
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