tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post2511082466137518478..comments2024-03-20T10:42:44.550+00:00Comments on ROMAN CHRISTENDOM: James Bond and the Bond family of Dorset who were Catholic recusants and JacobitesTribunushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-76644810451069183352012-04-03T19:13:41.012+01:002012-04-03T19:13:41.012+01:00A submariner lent me a book called Operation James...A submariner lent me a book called Operation James Bond and if memory still serves it was about how secret agents boated into Berlin to get Boorman out, furnishing a lookalike as a body substitute. It read welland I said It might even be true, giving the name before the Master himself. Wish I could remember more, busy fighting the next war, with Monarch Programming...see http://web.mac.com/beachhutman mind you, this might have saved lives or will save lives in the future but it seems about the biggest threat to Himan Rights since Mengele, who I say in my blob I have met.beachhutmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089124074862689070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-21330848629235508552012-02-08T20:23:55.262+00:002012-02-08T20:23:55.262+00:00Excellent! Glad to hear it.Excellent! Glad to hear it.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-39449095982500775362012-02-06T21:03:56.739+00:002012-02-06T21:03:56.739+00:00Michael Bond now lives in Corfe Castle and runs a ...Michael Bond now lives in Corfe Castle and runs a holiday letting business, and is a throughly decent chap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-41852118141586276462009-11-26T10:07:21.571+00:002009-11-26T10:07:21.571+00:00Dear Chris,
Excellent! I know Australia pretty we...Dear Chris,<br /><br />Excellent! I know Australia pretty well and met Bishop Brennan of Wagga a few times. Good, old-fashioned sort of bishop. Not sure if he is still alive.<br /><br />This appalling government of rascals, rogues, cheats and liars that currently rule us would rather spend money on a white-wash enquiry into the Iraq war than on properly equipping our front-line troops.<br /><br />Thank God we shall be rid of them in May next year.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-1363025906216061152009-11-26T10:06:35.671+00:002009-11-26T10:06:35.671+00:00Dear Chris,
Excellent! I know Australia pretty we...Dear Chris,<br /><br />Excellent! I know Australia pretty well and met Bishop Brennan of Wagga a few times. Good, old-fashioned sort of bishop. Not sure if he is still alive.<br /><br />This appalling government of rascals, rogues, cheats and liars that currently rule us would rather spend money on a white-wash enquiry into the Iraq war than on properly equipping our front-line troops.<br /><br />Thank God we shall be rid of them in May next year.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-91695931026195374642009-11-26T00:16:50.868+00:002009-11-26T00:16:50.868+00:00I am the DLI "anonymous". I didn't t...I am the DLI "anonymous". I didn't think my comment would generate any interest, but as it has, my name is Chris Deeley and I now live in Wagga Wagga, Australia. Michael Bond from the DLI would now be well-retired. At least two DLI officers emigrated to Australia and served in the Australian Army. I also think it sad that so many of the old British county regiments have disappeared from the Regular Army.Chris Deeleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-82485644402000012332009-11-25T11:56:43.077+00:002009-11-25T11:56:43.077+00:00Nice story!
Also, three cheers for the DLI, a ver...Nice story!<br /><br />Also, three cheers for the DLI, a very fine regiment.<br /><br />Like many another regiment the RGJ and LI have now, alas, been chopped up by a government which has no sympathy for the heroes of the past and present who preserve our freedoms.<br /><br />But there are still plenty of us who remember them.<br /><br />I wonder if there are any Bonds serving today?Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-23456333901103424492009-11-25T04:03:30.112+00:002009-11-25T04:03:30.112+00:00I served as a lieutenant in the Durham Light Infan...I served as a lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) between 1965 & 1967. A brother officer was Michael Bond from Dorset and owner of the Corfe Castle Estates. Michael was an amateur boxer and very James Bond-like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-63326296501851062772009-08-24T14:56:26.955+01:002009-08-24T14:56:26.955+01:00Thanks prudentius!Thanks prudentius!Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-14320039565536781302009-08-18T14:04:06.892+01:002009-08-18T14:04:06.892+01:00Thanks for another great little interesting articl...Thanks for another great little interesting article!<br /><br />Just dropped by to say that I love this blog. I am also impressed by your focus on peace and non-violence. I am pleased to see that it is not just the liberals and modernists who have exlcusive rights to our justice and peace tradition.<br />Well done and keep up the good work!<br />Prudentius<br />ScotlandPrudentiusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-51619001331275152272009-08-12T19:30:47.335+01:002009-08-12T19:30:47.335+01:00The Oxford Joint Catholic Societies thought of doi...The Oxford Joint Catholic Societies thought of doing a Bond-themed publicity campaign for the <i>Christianity</i> booklet in the late nineties. I made <a href="http://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/2004/09/24/karl-von-hapsburg-beatification-poster-draft/" rel="nofollow">a (very bad) mock up of a poster</a> on this theme some years later.berenikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16917803593444075354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-58400027590098850752009-08-01T10:27:19.119+01:002009-08-01T10:27:19.119+01:00hmm - being in the Combined Cadet Force doesn'...hmm - being in the Combined Cadet Force doesn't necessarily mean PB attended the Oratory school itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-8219559195324010142009-07-31T17:56:17.677+01:002009-07-31T17:56:17.677+01:00Dorset also hosted a sequence in Geoffrey Househol...Dorset also hosted a sequence in Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male' when a James Bond type character (albeit a shade more gentlemanly) took shelter in a chapel at Chideock (Our Lady and The Martyrs, I believe).Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-44680158956987681352009-07-27T17:49:32.683+01:002009-07-27T17:49:32.683+01:00Thanks Ollie! Nice bit of info. I'd no idea he...Thanks Ollie! Nice bit of info. I'd no idea he was an old Oratorian.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-59247319716754217502009-07-26T23:10:05.763+01:002009-07-26T23:10:05.763+01:00The motto is also pointed out, and Bond's arms...The motto is also pointed out, and Bond's arms shown, in the film of <em>O.H.M.S.S.</em> by a herald when Bond visits the Collge of Arms.<br /><br />Interesting that you have a picture of Pierce Brosnan at the top of your post! Brosnan is himself a Catholic. He returned to the Faith when his wife died of cancer. (He is also, of course, an old boy of the London Oratory School CCF.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com