steve66 3,869 Posted yesterday at 11:51 Report Share Posted yesterday at 11:51 14 hours ago, Bendigo said: Ancient order of froth blowers. 1920 Just googled it , quite an interesting past , nice find 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 3,080 Posted yesterday at 16:07 Report Share Posted yesterday at 16:07 18 hours ago, Bendigo said: Ancient order of froth blowers. 1920 what i found interesting is that Mad Mike Hoare and his mercenaries disguised themselves as the Ancient order of froth blowers in their attempted coup in the Seychelles in 1981 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 3,080 Posted yesterday at 16:09 Report Share Posted yesterday at 16:09 1 minute ago, greg64 said: what i found interesting is that Mad Mike Hoare and his mercenaries disguised themselves as the Ancient order of froth blowers in their attempted coup in the Seychelles in 1981 Associates of Mancham contacted Hoare, then in South Africa as a civilian resident, who eventually raised a force of 43 - 55 men including ex-South African Special Forces (Recces), former Rhodesian soldiers, and ex-Congo mercenaries.[30] During November 1981, Hoare dubbed them "Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers" (AOFB) after a charitable English social club of the 1920s. In order for the plan to work, he disguised the mercenaries as a rugby club, and hid AK-47s in the bottom of their luggage, as he explained in his book The Seychelles Affair: We were a Johannesburg beer-drinking club. We met formally once a week in our favourite pub in Braamfontein. We played Rugby. Once a year we organised a holiday for our members. We obtained special charter rates. Last year we went to Mauritius. In the best traditions of the original AOFB we collected toys for underprivileged kids and distributed them to orphanages ... I made sure the toys were as bulky as possible and weighed little. Rugger footballs were ideal. These were packed in the special baggage above the false bottom to compensate for the weight of the weapon.[31] 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 1,449 Posted yesterday at 16:23 Report Share Posted yesterday at 16:23 I didn't know that 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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