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Title: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please **COMPLETE**
Post by: beekay48 on Monday 31 August 09 15:37 BST (UK)
Would some kind soul please restore the attached photo of my DAD.  If anyone can place or date the photo I would be grateful. ;D
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: RecycledHippy on Monday 31 August 09 16:53 BST (UK)
Quick one from me

Hippy :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: beekay48 on Monday 31 August 09 18:16 BST (UK)
Thanks Hippy, he looks happier already and so am I. ;D
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: jim1 on Monday 31 August 09 20:14 BST (UK)
This looks overseas so 1946ish France/Germany?

jim
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: beekay48 on Monday 31 August 09 22:24 BST (UK)
No, He was in Belgium/France !939-40 (Dunkirk), but as far as I know he never got to Germany. By 1946 he was back in the UK.
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: old rowley on Monday 31 August 09 23:01 BST (UK)
well for a start he is wearing a collar and tie so it would indicate that he was off duty and seeing that the army introduced this wear into the uniform from July 1942 it would have be taken sometime after that date.

OR
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: beekay48 on Monday 31 August 09 23:27 BST (UK)
Thanks OR,

I'm not sure he is wearing a tie in the picture. :-\
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: scrimnet on Wednesday 02 September 09 10:33 BST (UK)
With evidence of "Cap Ridiculous", open collar and tie (deffo!!) and lack of web anklets or any other war fighting kit around, I would put this around winter 1945. I dont think it would be any earlier than winter 1944, and it is deffo in foreign climes.... ;D

It could be that his kit is already on the wagons, and he is off home to be demobbed!

Have you got hs service records from the Veterans Agency?
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: beekay48 on Wednesday 02 September 09 11:04 BST (UK)
His service record shows North Africa 26.2.43 - 29.10.45 (I know he was in Italy from 7.12.43) then Home 30.10.45.
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please
Post by: scrimnet on Wednesday 02 September 09 11:10 BST (UK)
Ah well then!!!

Italy Oct 1945 prior to rtn home...The poster is a bit Italian!

 ;D
Title: Re: Restore and date a WW2 war hero please **COMPLETE**
Post by: beekay48 on Wednesday 02 September 09 11:19 BST (UK)
Thank you Scrimnet and everyone else for their help. ;D