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joboy
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A Fine Body
« on: Saturday 04 July 09 06:11 UTC (UK) »
A Fine Body of Men (fooled yer!!) but who and what are they .... and when.
It says the place was Plymouth
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 04 July 09 06:19 UTC (UK) »
Hmmm ... I see boxing gloves ... a soccer ball ... those tenpin thingies they used to use for calisthenics exercises ... and a pair of rifles ...

Sports team ? ... Plymouth Young Sportsmen's Club? (I'm guessing, obviously!)
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 04 July 09 06:24 UTC (UK) »
werent the Marines based in Plymouth??
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday 04 July 09 07:00 UTC (UK) »
I’m thinking this is to do with the Navy. Even the building looks like a part of the barracks. 

There's a big Navy base in Plymouth.
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 04 July 09 07:01 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: xinia on Saturday 04 July 09 06:24 UTC (UK)
werent the Marines based in Plymouth??
I think you are on the right track xinia ... I was a bootneck at Stonehouse Barracks in 1944 and the background of this much earlier (thank goodness) photo is strikingly similar ..... but the again most of the buildings in that location were made of stone.
I hope that they were Marines (er bootnecks).
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 04 July 09 07:06 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: oldhippy on Saturday 04 July 09 07:00 UTC (UK)
I’m thinking this is to do with the Navy. Even the building looks like a part of the barracks. 

There's a big Navy base in Plymouth.
You too are on the right track I think.
One clue though is that the navy do not allow moustaches (only a 'full set' (a beard) is permitted ... and there is one bloke there (an instructor?) who has a moustache which the Royal Marines were allowed to have.
Just a guess.
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 04 July 09 07:30 UTC (UK) »
Interesting about the moustaches because of that I think I’ll have to go with the Marines. I bet if you post the picture on the Armed Forces site someone will be able to help. I bet there even tell you what make the rifles are.

I see the address is Union St. Quite a famous part of Plymouth for its clubs and girls of the night.   Smiley
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 04 July 09 08:38 UTC (UK) »
Yep... right now just a minute?!?!? My Grt grandad was in the RM at Devon Stonehouse?? but he died in  1895  so before your time... shame... anyway  I have all his attestation papers ... very interestin..

Now My wonderful Poppa is alive and kicking and spent nearly all his early career in the Royal Navy both UK and Australia...Sporting a moustache?Huh now I will ask him later how he managed to get away with it... He has told me before... something about special permission...... so we will see..

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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 04 July 09 08:47 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: xinia on Saturday 04 July 09 08:38 UTC (UK)
Yep... right now just a minute?!?!? My Grt grandad was in the RM at Devon Stonehouse?? but he died in  1895  so before your time... shame... anyway  I have all his attestation papers ... very interestin..

Now My wonderful Poppa is alive and kicking and spent nearly all his early career in the Royal Navy both UK and Australia...Sporting a moustache?Huh now I will ask him later how he managed to get away with it... He has told me before... something about special permission...... so we will see..

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You could be right xinia ....... the rules might have changed since I was demobbed 1947.
I often smile to myself when I see American films which depict a British naval officer with a moustache ... often happened in 'MASH'.
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 04 July 09 09:03 UTC (UK) »
The rifles were the old original short magazine Lee-Enfields and with the bayonets fixed are used for 'Bayonet Fencing' which used to be practised regularly throughout the armed services.
My immediate thoughts when I saw the picture were of the old Army Physical Training Instructors who used to provide Demonstration Teams regularly at Tattoos and occasionally at the Rememberance Serice in the Albert Hall, but their guernseys as I remember them were black and red alternate bands.
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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 04 July 09 09:35 UTC (UK) »
Okay....'strike that start again'  (willie wonka)

Dad has arisen from his hammock... and says No he didnt have a moustache... definately not allowed.. an if you had a beard it had to be inspected at intervals to keep it in check?!?!?

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Re: A Fine Body
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 04 July 09 12:49 UTC (UK) »
Hmmmm ... is it actually a moustache ... or a spot on the photo?  Huh
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday 04 July 09 13:10 UTC (UK) »
I blew him up ... and think its not a 'tache ... he's been eating chocolate messily !
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« Reply #13 on: Saturday 04 July 09 20:21 UTC (UK) »
People have said it in a variety of ways already, but my guess is a Navy (or possibly Marines) exhibition drill team.

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