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anyone know
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 6:37 pm
by deniz666uk
can anyone tell me anything about this photo please i did post a topic but the link was wrong so i have posted the photo here
album_thumbnail.php?pic_id=238
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 6:46 pm
by Doc
My guess (unless your German, has a luftwaffe look about him
)
RAF, cant tell which department though. Maybe one of the crabs will enlighten you.
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 7:03 pm
by Tab
As the photo is so small it wont take much enlargement before it distorts. I was to take a guess I would say it was of a RAF chap of the WW2 era. The RAF kept forage caps long after the Army had gone over to Berets. Well thats what I think any way.
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 7:14 pm
by deniz666uk
can you tell if its canadian RAF or british... were can i find out more information on this man
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 9:07 pm
by Mike
By the way he stoops I'd guess they he came from the prairies, somewhere like, Regina, Saskchewan. The only reason I say this is because of the weight of snow they carry on their shoulders for 7 month of the year
Aye
Mike
Posted: Thu 05 Jan, 2006 9:54 pm
by Sticky Blue
The photo is tiny. To get the sort of details you want it needs to be a lot bigger unless a spotter is looking at it.
Posted: Fri 06 Jan, 2006 11:18 am
by Doc
Maybe he was a hobbit and your gandalf the grey
Posted: Fri 06 Jan, 2006 3:50 pm
by deniz666uk
tried to make it larger but it just distorted it but cleaned it up a bit if this might help me
album_cat.php?cat_id=10
Posted: Fri 06 Jan, 2006 4:00 pm
by Artist
Looks like Wing Commander Guy Gibson taking his doggie N****r (PC or farking what then!?
) for a walk.
Artiste
Posted: Fri 06 Jan, 2006 5:29 pm
by Tab
I would say a sergeant in the RAF
Posted: Fri 06 Jan, 2006 10:52 pm
by Mike
Tab wrote:I would say a sergeant in the RAF
with one medal ribbon and a child holding onto his right hand....Oh and smoking a pipe....which they all did in those days.
I think thats about all you are going to get..
Aye
Mike
Posted: Sun 08 Jan, 2006 8:57 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
Sgt, RAF, can't see a medal ribbon on the left side of chest
Can see a satchell over the shoulder - and hanging down at his back,
perhaps a white shirt and red tie which COULD denote sick berth
( walking wounded ). ( Woolwich Arsenal - or RAF equiv. ? ).
There again, perhaps this could be a Home Guard coming off watch -
One good conduct badge, left sleeve ?
Posted: Mon 09 Jan, 2006 12:48 am
by mogoloyo
The Satchell being his Gas Mask case, carried by everyone in the UK during the war by law.
Posted: Mon 09 Jan, 2006 1:13 pm
by Pilgrim Norway
I had one with a Mickey Mouse flap on the front in my gasmask case.....
Have experience in being old......
Posted: Sat 11 Feb, 2006 5:08 pm
by Damolee
Might be my great grandad going down the bookies.