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Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "The Drydock - Episode 115" video.
You could safely assume that most men who were actually in a Dominion navy would be fabourably inclined towards the RN, so you wouldn't actually want to annoy them. Actually, amongst the Dominion forces (India excepted), there was little practical distinction between British and Dominion personnel. Most regarded themselves as British (within a wider sense), whilst still feeling distinctively Canadian, Australian or whatever. Thia made it easier to cooperate and move personnel between units. It would be quite possible, for instance, to have a Rhodesian serving with a New Zealand unit and no one would think
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... iit remarkable.
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@tokul76 ita certai ly true that a sizeable percentage of afrikaaners qouldn't have minded if the jolly old Kaiser or that nice Mr Hitler had smashed the british; but its also true that many of them were quite reconciled to being part of the wmpire. And a lot of afrikaaners had fought beside the brits in both Boer wars. It really wasn't until after the qàr that the afrikaaner nationalists began to substantially outnumber , shall we call them united empire loyalists? And British attitude to "the winds if change" rather than remembrances of events 50 years previously probably had more influence on afrikaaner thinking.
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