I used the ‘move post’ tool in the thread from which I was moving posts to move several (four as turned out rather than the three I mentioned) posts to a new (presently deleted) thread http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9547 I’d created to receive them, but the first post which was necessary to explain the thread ended up being the last post.
How do I get the posts in the correct order?