Mystery photo in need of a better look!

[Rabbit B]

Hi

Brilliant photo, I am most intrigued.  Definitely serving with the RAF and I would think WW2.  I wonder if their uniforms are specific to their occupation.  They look foreign to me, Polish or a Russian maybe, under an English command.

MY OH says that the chap, in the middle has a DFC ribbon so he must have been in the war, this medal was given to members of the army who served with the air force as well, I looked that up for there have never had any awarded in our family, despite all the RAF connections.

Rabbit B 

[PrueM]

piestain, did you post a message on the ARmed Forces board about this photo?   

[PaulaToo]

Doesn't look like it, yet, Prue.
I keep coming back in hope.

I do think the chap in the middle looks the centre of attention, as though they are saluting him or something.

[PrueM]

He's got alot of medal ribbons...wonder whether he was being transferred somewhere else or something?  And they took a commemorative photo?
If the Armed Forces people could tell us more about where, when and who, we might be able to work out the 'what'...maybe there are records somewhere, like a unit diary or log?

[chinakay]

I'm intrigued by this photo

I just stuck a link in at the AF board...that should bring someone over

Cheers,
China

[jc26red]

is it possible to scan just the clipboard on the left at say 1200dpi with no compression, and perhaps we will be able to make out the rest of the writing. It looks like its an award certificate to the Met Stores.... but maybe just awarded to the one man or something.

Certainly an interesting photo, and they do look like they are saluting him or something.

[O1dgobbo]

Whoops I just stuck this on the link by mistake so here it is again

Hi All

The two guys with open neck tunics are RAF officers, Flight Lieutenant with two rings on his sleeve and Pilot Officer with one ring, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_officer_ranks

The other guys have tunics buttoned up to the neck but they are not the battledress that the army wore in WW2.  So are they RAF Regiment or some other RAF body?

Good luck

[scrimnet]

Yes it has bought someone over!!!

Now then...This is an RAF picture, the other ranks in the pic (not the officers) are wearing the 1922 pattern of service dress tunic...

I would go again for a meteorological section, of the RAF in fact the GR thing says "stores".

The two chaps at the back have W/T headphones on and have wireless operators trade badges on...

None of them have puttees on, but they do have turn ups on their trousers...

The civvy chap in the homburg looks to be late 1920s early 1930s.

All the NCOs and officers have WW1 medal ribbons on, so deffo post WW1, and deffo post 1922...

[scrimnet]

It is between 1922 and 1937 as in that year the battledress of WW2 started to come in.

The RAF wore such uniforms up until WW2...

I do not think that there are any foreign troops there....They would wear their own cap badges and not that of the RAF