Charlie

hope it helps my ping lol

Hi, Yea the XI servers and members are really great and hello to you.

Thanks for your help guys i will go back to Bulawayo me thinks. Brotrinide your name is hard to say lol

Hi all most of you know me as Charlie-caveman but i actually started as bulawayo and changed it because people were struggling to say bulawayo. I need help, should i keep my name as is or go back to my original?? All help and ideas welcome. Thanks Charlie

Lol no but we actually used to go for walks into the forest next to the compound unescorted and actually found an old terrorist camp, cant believe we walked out like that was really dangerous.

We lived in an area of Rhodesia called Chimanimani which is mountainous forrested terrain which was owned by Angloamerican if my memory serves me right. The compound where we lived was called Melsetter and the workshops and saw mill were a 10 min drive. To go shopping in the nearest town which was called Umtali now called mutare we had to go in convoy. There were pickups with rotating cages that had mounted lmgs fitted and then we had army trucks mixed in and a few of the old armoured vehicles. The journey was treachorous and the chances of an ambush or hitting landmines was quite high.

The good old days, going to school in armoured vehicles and being escorted by soldiers. Sometimes at night the terrs as we called them would shoot at the 30 house compound where we all lived, their rounds would sound like hail on the tin roofs as they didnt dare come to close as the guys from the Rhodesian Light Infantry would get them so their rounds had spent most of their energy. They fired rifle grenades which used to land in the trees a couple of hundred meters from the outer fence, we used to go into the pantry as it had no windows.

Does any one remember those days, were you there

Happy Birthday to the 2 of you

Hi what do i do to become a clan member please?? ta Charlie

Hi all, finally got on to this site. Well im from what was Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and am currently living in the North West of the uk with my partner and 3 kids. I work with people with various disabilities which can be a fulfilling job. I was in the uk military many years ago and was involved with the police part time in Zimbabwe long before all the trouble started.