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General => Armed Forces => World War Two => Topic started by: angelahutch on Wednesday 08 December 10 15:11 GMT (UK)
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Photo of a group of soldiers outside of the Railroad Station
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If it was a caption competition my submission woul be:
The 12.06 for Tobruk has been delayed by the wrong kind of sand on the line.
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This picture was taken by someone who served his country in the Gordon Highlanders through all the campaign's and is now deceased. The reason for putting this photo on was so that someone might find it of interest. Not to be taken the micky of
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I apologise to you.
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apology accepted.
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Thank you. My father served in Egypt between 1942 and 1945.
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what regiment was he with i have photo's of people as well that served in the conflict but have no names to the faces
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He was in the RASC based in Alexandria.
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Just found this photo on here and I think that my late uncle is in here ,so can any one tell what rank the soldier standing ,second from left ,third row from bottom is please.
Cheers,
Maureen.
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Hi
Maureen I put this photo and have the original photo of this it was in with my husbands father's photo's he served in the Gordon Highlanders, unfortunately I don't know the rank of your ancestor at all but if you would like a copy of the photo I would gladly send you a copy.
angela
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Thanks for the reply .I was hoping someone with military knowledge could tell his rank.
I have copied the photo to my P C and will show it to family to get their opinion.
My uncle was killed in action July 1943
If you have other similar photos from the Gordon Highlanders I would like to see them please.
I have seen the others you posted here.
Cheers, Maureen
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Hi Maureen
If you have seen the others then that's all I have will have another look through my husbands family photo's to see if there are anymore that I can find.
Angela
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It's unlikely that the people in the photo are Gordon Highlanders, juding from their dress.
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What is the building behind the men?
Regards
Malky
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I think someone said on page 1 that it was Alamein Railway station.
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The station at El Alamein was just a glorified shed. (Loads of photographs on Google) This building is brick built, with a quadrupel chimney and guttering with downpipes. This looks to be in the U.K. possibly a barracks, but which one?
Regards
Malky
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Well it could be anywhere I took this from a collection of photo's that I have from my husband's father that served in ww2. But his mother's family also served in ww1 and ww2.
Maybe it comes from that side I don't really know.