WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Don't you think the front left looks as if he is taking off Hitler - in that same photo.   

I thought that too. I doubt he's actually taking him off though as young Adolf was, at that time a relatively unknown corporal on the Western Front!

[Wiggy]

Don't you think the front left looks as if he is taking off Hitler - in that same photo.   

I thought that too. I doubt he's actually taking him off though as young Adolf was, at that time a relatively unknown corporal on the Western Front!

Very true - OK it is only we late comers who think that!!       Should be the other way round shouldn't it!!    Hitler taking him off!  Obviously! 

[Mike in Cumbria]

   Should be the other way round shouldn't it!!    Hitler taking him off!  Obviously! 

Yes! This guy has a lot to answer for.

[mare]

Can't improve on your reading of sign on wall in #46 Wiggy ... blurs too much bringing it up further

Some of same group in #50

[Greensleeves]

In #46 I am wondering if the chap second right, front row, is Major General Sir Charles John Melliss, or General Melliss as he was then, who is said to have been instrumental in the British victory at the Battle of Shaiba.

[Greensleeves]

In #50, he looks to be the officer commanding the map.

[Ruskie]

In #50, he looks to be the officer commanding the map.

This does look like a fairly staged photograph, and he does look important.

[Ruskie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_John_Melliss
I think that is not a photo of Melliss. (good old wiki)
because ...
I found this:
http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_townshend_charles.html

[Greensleeves]

How very interesting Ruskie.  Presumably we trust History of War rather than Wiki to get the right photo for the right man