41 Gun Salutes a plenty to mark death of Prince Phillip ...

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  • dogtag
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 14985

    #1

    41 Gun Salutes a plenty to mark death of Prince Phillip ...

    I love that "Pinzgauer vehicle" except it looks as though getting
    into it might be tricky. Maybe you get dropped in from above.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oyal-Navy.html

    I suspect the Queen might follow him as often happens with devoted couples.
  • Vern Humphrey
    Administrator - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 15875

    #2
    The Prince of Wales came over here
    And caused a hullabaloo
    And everyone turned out, you know
    In gold and tinsel, too.

    But the good old 69th
    Didn't care for kings and peers
    "Th' divil take the nobility"
    Said the Irish Volunteers,

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    • Mark in Ottawa
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 1744

      #3
      We didn't fire a 41 gun salute, but the bells in the tower of the Parliament Buildings here in Ottawa tolled 99 times - once for each year of Prince Phillip's life.

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      • M1Tommy
        Very Senior Member - OFC
        • Aug 2009
        • 1027

        #4
        Silliness on around the internet report scores of phone frantic phone calls from various French senior leadership, offering to surrender............


        Really though, may he have fair winds, and rest in peace, now. The sailor come home from the seas.........

        Prince Philip beard 1945 PA.jpg

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