As is my wont I started to move off topic on canals with Panny and I going on about our dads war service. I've done it properly and started a new thread.
Cheers Ian. Have a look at the post "A Barlicker on D Day".
My dad left the Dukes to join the newly formed parachute regiment but his eyesight let him down and he was put in a "holding" regiment, the Dorsets. Montgomery then had other ideas about the Dorsets and together with the Devons and the Northumbriams (Tyne Tees), parts of the 7th Armoured and parts of the commando regiment formed them into the 50th Division which became his prime assault group, the only group to make three assault landings in Sicily, Italy and France on D Day. Nolic
Posted - 22/11/2010 : 11:24
Looking at it again you could well be right Stanley, probably a Mk VII Service Respirator. So they have one rifle and pig sticker bayonet and one gas mask between twelve. I notice also that the guy on the top row at the left has not finished his fag when the group shot was taken. The topic will have been at the top three times now with no other takers for identification. I think we will have to assume HG, in the early months of the war.
Posted - 13/05/2011 : 11:26
Not sure where to put this so here goes. There is a programme on BB2 on Sunday regarding Operation Crossbow - the Allies programme for the destruction of Hitlers V1 and V2 sites. See the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13359064 Looks good. Nolic
Barlickers in the War
