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Offline Maggie.

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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #288 on: Monday 06 May 13 20:55 BST (UK) »
Thank-you YT for scanning this wonderful archive. It must have taken you many hours of work.

At the moment I've 10 pages open linked to various pictures and web pages as I keep getting diverted away to read up a bit more about the Mesopotamian campaign, about which I knew next to nothing until a few days ago. Fascinating stuff.
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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #289 on: Monday 06 May 13 21:30 BST (UK) »
Pictures 147, 148 and 149 remind me of the reed 'mudhifs' which used to be built in the marshes around the Tigris/Euphrates and which featured in the book by Wilfred Theisiger 'Marsh Arabs'.    I've got a copy somewhere and will have to find it !
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #290 on: Monday 06 May 13 21:47 BST (UK) »
I have been trying to ID  the top brass on the two photos early on in this thread; no luck so far though.  Trouble is that they all look the same!
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #291 on: Monday 06 May 13 21:53 BST (UK) »
It's those Hitler 'tashes that do it.  I sort of thought one of them could be General Townshend but a stab in the dark really.
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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #292 on: Monday 06 May 13 22:14 BST (UK) »
I agree Maggie, I have Major Gen Charles Townsend as a possible, along with Gen Sir Percy Lake,  John Nixon and Sir Frederick Stanley Maude... oh and Maj Gen Charles Mellis, of course.  But as they all seem to look identical with their moustaches and fine breeding it is very difficult to tell one from t'other!
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #293 on: Tuesday 07 May 13 00:19 BST (UK) »
What is that animal at #145? (a couple of them appear though less clear in earlier photos)

And ... what is happening in #141?

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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #294 on: Tuesday 07 May 13 00:42 BST (UK) »


Quote from: Ruskie on Tuesday 07 May 13 00:19 BST (UK)
And ... what is happening in #141?

Possibly women turning away from the camera because they did not want to be photographed?
England:  Archer, Bailey, Bates, Blower, Bosworth, Court, Hicklin, Orton, Palmer, Robbins, Sedgwick, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Varnam, Wakelin, Walker
Canada:  Archer, Walker, Spencer, Shepherd
Australia:  Taplin
South Africa:  Risley

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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #295 on: Tuesday 07 May 13 01:17 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Ruskie on Tuesday 07 May 13 00:19 BST (UK)
What is that animal at #145? (a couple of them appear though less clear in earlier photos)


Could it be a jackal?
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Re: WW1 photo's, bought at carboot.
« Reply #296 on: Tuesday 07 May 13 01:40 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Maggie. on Tuesday 07 May 13 01:17 BST (UK)
Quote from: Ruskie on Tuesday 07 May 13 00:19 BST (UK)
What is that animal at #145? (a couple of them appear though less clear in earlier photos)


Could it be a jackal?

That was my thought too! 
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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