The Cemetery at Pomfret. Resting place for so many 32 Battalion Soldiers and family. September 2017

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  • @alagentleman1
    @alagentleman1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    From the USA...God bless you and everyone who served in the SADF, especially 32 Battalion. As I commented in another video, you all represented the best of South Africa.

  • @jamescullen3768
    @jamescullen3768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you...you are the true heroes

  • @coreythorne6936
    @coreythorne6936 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Respect to 32 Battalion. Thank you for sharing.

  • @shanevermij4780
    @shanevermij4780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dear Charles I feel your hurt, sadly my brother in law Gary Armstrong who also a 32 battalion Sergent passed away recently of cancer a really good person dearly missed, honorable man. He was more concerned for me when my dad past away, never ever telling me of his own struggle with cancer, he will forever be in my thoughts and my heart for his kindness to me over the time I knew him

  • @hondr.sirlarrymswart1921
    @hondr.sirlarrymswart1921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks Charles for this informative vid

  • @matthewthomas3890
    @matthewthomas3890 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm 70 now. Old Batt, 74/75 intake. did a few exciting things with 32 Battalion. Thank you so much for this beautiful video. Matt in NZ.

  • @saintcasperc8.871
    @saintcasperc8.871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the update on the Resting place, of my glorious brother's. ATE O FIM.

    • @TheRealChipinda
      @TheRealChipinda  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Best wishes Charlie Oito. From Foxtrot Dezessete.

    • @saintcasperc8.871
      @saintcasperc8.871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRealChipinda love to have some "gang-gogga" for brunch.

    • @saintcasperc8.871
      @saintcasperc8.871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRealChipinda Thanks, for your memories, the real A company 32, can't loose anything, you will be welcome to join us, when we get there, everything grave in Pomfret cemetery with no headstone is A company 32 BN. ATE O FIM

  • @robertoreilly230
    @robertoreilly230 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They still live on in our hearts and minds thank you my brothers in Arms

  • @emiledutoit9434
    @emiledutoit9434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sad the reality of war, it somehow makes one more sad when these heroes resting place is forgotten and dilapidated, when it makes no difference to the fallen, the only thing one can do is to keep their memories alive, One wonders how this cemetery would have looked if history turned the other way. the former south africa died with these soldiers and the disbandment of this battalion

    • @motingoemoffat5628
      @motingoemoffat5628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The National Party has to take responsibility because they used them.Actually these guys are not heroes .They betrayed their Angolan and Namibian goverments above all they killed our brothers.

    • @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782
      @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@motingoemoffat5628 They are heroes. They fought for what they believed in. They were the first line against communism. Democracy prevailed in Namibia and in South Africa, so these heroes were on the winning side.

    • @aranos56vm
      @aranos56vm 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@motingoemoffat5628 The same with the ANC and SWAPO. They have to take responsibility for the people they murdered in the socall death camps in Zambia and Angola.

  • @michaelochoa5531
    @michaelochoa5531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    RIP warriors

  • @johanrobbertse8543
    @johanrobbertse8543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Tyd dat ons terug gaan en weer eer gaan betoon

  • @ignatiusvanrooyen813
    @ignatiusvanrooyen813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RIP MY BROTHERS , YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED 🙏🙏🙏

  • @miltdooling8135
    @miltdooling8135 ปีที่แล้ว

    God bless them all

  • @ASouthAfrican32
    @ASouthAfrican32 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You sound exactly like willem ratte. maybe one get a 32 battalion accent when serving with the unit😁 but an awesome unit it were my dream to serve with them but alas I were born in 1990. Kind of you to give us this video we are still fighting in our own way but with a huge disadvantage, may God be with us. Im still young and I can still fight and I got spirit and I hope something happens....

  • @Patrix299
    @Patrix299 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Sorry about your friends, my grandfather lost some of his friends fighting in Biafra

    • @TheRealChipinda
      @TheRealChipinda  7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Theo Thompson Thank you Theo. I read books by Chinua Achebe and Frederick Forsyth on the Biafran conflict. Another African horror story.

    • @lasigns1468
      @lasigns1468 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheRealChipinda VERY SAD VIDEO, THANKS FOR POSTING. I was at Martins grave together with Willem Prinsloo during the disbandment
      and there were not many graves at the time

  • @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782
    @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The biggest general in world history, Alexander the Great's, grave is unknown and nowhere to be found. Great soldiers don't need monumental graves. These men are heroes and their graves are in our hearts.

  • @Koos-fy9uo
    @Koos-fy9uo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ja my vriend dankie wat jy doen ek en ander waardeer dit al wat mens kan se vandag rip want niemand weet wat mens deur gegaan het nie die NP regering het ons gebreuk en weg gegooi nog maals dankie ons sal dit onthou groete koos boyder

  • @williamwormald6463
    @williamwormald6463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rip

  • @markhwl8345
    @markhwl8345 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Eish, difficult….

  • @karlprice9465
    @karlprice9465 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does no one look after the graves of these brave men

    • @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782
      @tjakamonawatataerasmus-see3782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The biggest general in world history, Alexander the Great's, grave is unknown and nowhere to be found. Great soldiers don't need monumental graves. These men are heroes and their graves are in our hearts.

  • @muziwesley5250
    @muziwesley5250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder who are buried in those stone graves

    • @saintcasperc8.871
      @saintcasperc8.871 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are the unknown soldier's that belongs to you all.

    • @muziwesley5250
      @muziwesley5250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😅😅😅 those are the graves of man from Angola who helped the cruel system of apartheid

    • @nessyndeshi
      @nessyndeshi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They will burn in hell

    • @Enoch940
      @Enoch940 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This graves are deserter of FAPLA and SWAPO

  • @wytbarnard5494
    @wytbarnard5494 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How poignant!

  • @alcenofolchini6971
    @alcenofolchini6971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    War everyone loses

  • @michaelochoa5531
    @michaelochoa5531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    RIP warriors