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Offline LoneyBones

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #189 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 10:15 GMT (UK) »
Oh Rabbit, you're worth your weight in lucern (or clover, or any other rabbit food) I can just imagine some pommy driver drawing his sword to defend his lady.....  down some busy street in London. Now my OH wants to know what I'm all hysterical about. I'll tell him when I stop laughing.
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ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #190 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 11:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi again m'dear!

That's why they call us the old Country!  We have a lotta history here!

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #191 on: Tuesday 04 March 08 23:52 GMT (UK) »
Now then.....

I have read many books....

I have spoken to learned associates...

My consensus is now that the pic is 1923-25

The chaps with the darkened buttons....RNAS

Royal Naval Air Service

They and the RFC amalgamated to make the RAF....

Hence the mix of uniforms and odd bod bits...

I am still opined that the RNAS ones are balloon chappies

Another dating point is the turn ups on the trousers...
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #192 on: Wednesday 05 March 08 00:37 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: scrimnet on Monday 03 March 08 23:54 GMT (UK)
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #193 on: Wednesday 05 March 08 01:06 GMT (UK) »
Well in my dealings with the "Septics", which have been many and varied....they do seem to have some weird habits.... :P :P :P :P
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #194 on: Thursday 06 March 08 22:44 GMT (UK) »
I was interested in this photo as the chap in the middle with the bulb on his helmet, looks very much like my Uncle who was in the RAF during WW2.
I am posting the only photo I have of him in the certain knowledge that one of you illustrious people will decide if it is the same person or not.
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #195 on: Thursday 06 March 08 23:00 GMT (UK) »
Pennine, how old is your uncle in the photo and when was he born?  The mystery photo, it has been agreed, was taken before WW2
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #196 on: Thursday 06 March 08 23:08 GMT (UK) »
Did he get any medals, decorations etc?
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #197 on: Thursday 06 March 08 23:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi he was born about 1920 don't have his exact date of birth but I can get it given time. In the photo I sent he would have been 40 ish. Don't know any more details but as I said given time I can find out. I think his face shape is exactly the same and I do remember him being much younger than in the photo I posted and my memory matches the original one.

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