Many Thanks for everyone who Signed the Petition

SUPPORT A HERO!!!

VC hero Gurkha Tul Bahadur Pun was very rightly given permission by the Government to stay in the U.K. one British Military Online Forum in particular added their entire weight of thousands of serving and former members of Britain's Armed Forces - The ARmy Rumour SErvice (ARRSE for short)

See the outcome of theirs and many other Organisations and Individuals efforts below:

  http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/gurkhas-rights/

Quote from the Kohima Memorial Epitaph:

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, 
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

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- Press on the Commando Joe Link above -

So far this extraordinary mixed team of British Royal Engineer Commandos and Royal Marines has raced to the North Pole in a record time (fewer people have reached this unforgiving part of the Planet than have climbed to the Summit of Mt. Everest!) and in 2006 they rowed across the entire Atlantic Ocean from the States to England, and they aren't stopping there - in 2007 they will compete in the Race across the Sahara and all in the name of Charity! (they have raised well over 140,000 U.K. Pounds to date) at the very least they deserve a visit from you - simply press on the Commando Joe Logo above to pay them a visit.  

Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) is a science of vague assumptions based on debatable figures derived from inconclusive experiments, performed by persons of doubtful mental capability with instruments of problematic accuracy.

Welcome to the Home of

The Hard "EOD" Cafe

British Bomb Disposal Club

You can enter the steely eyed pages of the site by one of two ways, either by simply pressing on the 'Enter At Your Own Risk' link at the bottom of the page (scroll down using your mouse thingy ; ) or by pressing anywhere you want to on our very own commissioned "Union Jackie" Picture above. The Site has gone through a completely new Spring Cleaning process that has taken almost a year so far and is improving week by week so keep an eye on the pages for any new updates. You can help the website to improve by adding to the Guestbook/Forum your thoughts and ideas on how to improve the pages or what to add to them. If you dare take the risk and enter our exclusive, somewhat unusual, not altogether sane, often bizarre and occasionally humorous, Bomb Disposal/Explosive Ordnance Disposal web pages you will hopefully enjoy many hours of reading through the many pages that have been painstakingly created so far (gallons of midnight oil has been burnt! not to mention the vast quantities of EOD liquid (beer!) consumed during the often mind numbing, very occasionally imaginative, single finger typing, process of creating the different pages and at the same time breaking into the lonely, geeky world of computer website design, not an easy task for anyone let alone an EOD Operator!!!) and just possibly see the EOD Operator in a different light, we are only human after all ;)! much, much more is to come; anyone qualified in EOD or indeed works within the hazardous field of Bomb Disposal, EOD, Humanitarian or Commercial Mine Clearance or High Risk Search, is more than welcome to drop us a quick E-Mail applying for Membership of our exclusive Club, Membership is entirely free so don't expect too much ;), all we ask is that you look at the Charity page within the site and think about donating to the Charity of our choice (read all about it inside!) Membership will give the Member access to the Members Page where will be listed many discounts to various Institutes/Organisations and Companies relevant to the work we do, a Membership/I.D. Card, Gucci Certificate to frame and the entitlement to use the Post Nominals 'MHEODC' after their name. There is much to see within our steely eyed pages, in particular, a very good and extremely popular Remembrance Page dedicated to all those who have fallen in the line of duty whilst serving in the hallowed ranks of British Bomb Disposal, very soon we will have listed all these brave people, including the 490 who perished in the extremely perilous first years of Bomb Disposal during the Blitz of World War Two and during the 2 years after the War ended, whose heroism in recovering such deadly Fuzes from the various sized Bombs that existed in the Luftwaffe's Arsenal should never be forgotten, Fuzes such as the No 17 (which could detonate the explosive in the Bomb at anytime from 1 to 72 hours after landing!) the No 50 (this was an Anti-Disturbance Fuze that could be triggered by less than 1mm of movement by the men digging down to it 'and it often did!') and not to mention the Zus40 (a very clever Anti-Withdrawal device that often caught out the Operator upon extracting the Fuze!) 45,000 Unexploded Bombs were dealt with between the Army, Navy and Air Force Bomb Disposal Units during the War Years, 151 Sappers from the Royal Engineers EOD Units also lost their lives clearing over 2,000 minefields containing over 350,000 mines from the British shoreline from 1943 and after, fellow Bomb Disposal Engineers have also lost their lives in Korea, The Falklands War and the most recent War in Iraq carrying out the often very hazardous work of Bomb Disposal and Explosive Ordnance Clearance the memory of all of them, every one of whom the word Valour does not give them justice of the heroic work they lost their lives carrying out, will always live on in our Remembrance Page.

The Hard EOD Cafe aims to be the one stop Website where EOD Operators (not just British but Worldwide) can stop by, talk the talk, add their pics and possibly even find a new job or advertise for personnel through our active Guestbook/Forum or through one of the Companies in the Links Page or at the very least just to swap stories and experiences, but importantly, to continue to provide a home base for future re-unions/gatherings etc. for former 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) members as we have been doing since 1998 when myself, Mick "Arnie" Rutherford, Colin Dawson and Jimmie Heald started all this,

I am sure we will be forgiven in time!

Finally I would like to mention a certain young chap, he is the bravest person I know and has been through more in his young life than we have all been through in our Military Careers, his name is Carl Richardson, my Godson and the son of my best mate Andy...

AL Smith... (Hard EOD Cafe Webmaster)

To Apply for Membership of the Club or for any offers of help with the pages/ideas for site content/photos etc. simply press the E-Mail pencil and paper Link below:-

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The Hard EOD Cafe

"The U.K. 's Number One Unofficial British Army EOD Website ; )"