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Title: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: ele on Sunday 07 April 19 08:31 BST (UK)
I have an old WW2 photo with my Grandfather in and wondering where it may have been taken?
WW2
My Grandfather back row second in from the left.
Sorry I have misplaced his regiment number at this point but was with the Devonshire Reg Terr Army 28-8-1939 - 1968
Photo he looks pretty young.
Middle East 15/8/1941 - 20/6/1942
Italy POW 21/6/1942 - 6/3/1944
Germany POW 7/3/1944 - 15/5/1945
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: alan o on Sunday 07 April 19 09:01 BST (UK)
It is post war.  The medal ribbons suggest late 1945 onwards.

The large General Service caps were introduced circa 1943.
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: Dulaigh on Sunday 07 April 19 11:01 BST (UK)
A very odd mixture of Regiments...perhaps southern half of UK.
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: ele on Sunday 07 April 19 12:28 BST (UK)
Thank you. I have other photos but will have to get the Hubby to resize them as Im not to good at it. ;D
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: Henry7 on Monday 22 July 19 22:13 BST (UK)
The man without a hat - maybe a civilian instructor of something or other? 

A class on a joint-regimental course?  A foreign language, maybe?  Just guessing.
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 22 July 19 22:30 BST (UK)
Can’t help with your request but your grandfather bears more than a passing resemblance to Bill Nighy, a really good actor.
Wish you success in your quest.
Viktoria
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: ainslie on Monday 22 July 19 22:30 BST (UK)
The huts look typical of many UK camps.  I agree that there is a mixture of badges, and possibly some sort of training course.
A
Title: Re: WW2 Photo where taken?
Post by: F.Denyse Bélanger on Tuesday 15 October 19 17:06 BST (UK)
Hello,

I am new to this forum, but after reading the replies you have received to your question, and if the picture is related to training, I would say perhaps Inverary Scotland. My father was a sergent-instructor in Inverary starting in 1943, in the Quebec camp, but  the British were also training there.
My father volunteered in 1944 for the last push, North-West Europe, was wounded the first day the Germans offered capitulation in Friesland, near Emdem and Aurich, Germany, that is May 3rd 1945.
Good luck with your research.**Note : camp location was probably secret during wartime, so I wonder if such a picture could have been taken.

I must have watched hundreds and hundreds of newsreels from the UK, Canada, the Netherlands. I have not found everything I was looking for yet, but part of it.

Good luck.
F. Denyse Bélanger