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Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« on: Sunday 01 November 09 22:09 UTC (UK) »
We found this photo in the family box but have no idea who it is.  Huh
Can anyone spot any identifying detail on her uniform please?
Many thanks.
Ron

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« Reply #1 on: Monday 02 November 09 00:09 UTC (UK) »
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ATS

But where I suppose is the next question...I have loads of pics of the ATS around the Shire, she might be in them!

Grin

Sorry Ron, I seem to be answering all your questions at the mo....Perhaps you should just email them all to me!:lol:
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #2 on: Monday 02 November 09 00:13 UTC (UK) »
What a pretty girl! - But ... she only looks like a bit of kid, ... soooooo tiny!

Scrimmers, for the benefit of us on the other side of the world and lost with such things ... what is the ATS?
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« Reply #3 on: Monday 02 November 09 09:17 UTC (UK) »
Hello,Here's a link

http://caber.open.ac.uk/schools/stanway/army.html



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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 02 November 09 09:20 UTC (UK) »
Very flat.  Could be Norfolk.

Or Suffolk.

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« Reply #5 on: Monday 02 November 09 09:21 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: Deb D on Monday 02 November 09 00:13 UTC (UK)
What a pretty girl! - But ... she only looks like a bit of kid, ... soooooo tiny!

Scrimmers, for the benefit of us on the other side of the world and lost with such things ... what is the ATS?


Ooops sorry I forget sometimes.... Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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« Reply #6 on: Monday 02 November 09 09:51 UTC (UK) »
Possibly a driver?,look at the gloves,
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« Reply #7 on: Monday 02 November 09 10:22 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: briant on Monday 02 November 09 09:51 UTC (UK)
Possibly a driver?,look at the gloves,

Drivers gloves for the ATS (and others!) were big leather affairs; almost gauntlets...These are just big woolly ones!

Usually the ATS attached to units wore the tribal distinction as a brooch on top left breast...Unfortunately, this one doesn't!

Also some help may be gleaned from divisional signs on the top of sleeves...She is awkward! Grin
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #8 on: Monday 02 November 09 10:25 UTC (UK) »
From the parched grass and the style of fencing (looks to be bamboo rather than wire) it could be somewhere "foreign"

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« Reply #9 on: Monday 02 November 09 10:50 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: kyt on Monday 02 November 09 10:25 UTC (UK)
From the parched grass and the style of fencing (looks to be bamboo rather than wire) it could be somewhere "foreign"

K

Could just be a hot summer!

The Trees look "English"!

If it were somewhere hot, I would expect her to be in KD Wink

The screen looks to be a little more substantial than bamboo to me!  Cheesy
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #10 on: Monday 02 November 09 15:07 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: kyt on Monday 02 November 09 10:25 UTC (UK)
From the parched grass and the style of fencing (looks to be bamboo rather than wire) it could be somewhere "foreign"

K

I tend to agree.  Somewhere in the Americas perhaps?  The style of fencing is called lattice I think.  The power poles also seem to have an American type look.  My guess would be Canada or the United States.
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« Reply #11 on: Monday 02 November 09 17:20 UTC (UK) »
Not in the US with that uniform!! Grin

Canada is a possibility, but the telegraph pole has been "army whitewashed", and examples of that kind were around in this country during the war.

I will look through my books etc to see if I cant find something similar re the stuff.

Is that not an elm at the back?
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One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #12 on: Monday 02 November 09 18:34 UTC (UK) »
You lot are just fantastic! I love reading all this Sherlock Holmesian stuff. Now, can you tell me what flavour lipstick she was wearing?  Wink

I thought the palisade look 'foreign' but I'll bow to your expertise. My Dad was in Burma 1945 - 47. Could an ATS have been out there then?

Scrimnet, I'm not complaining!   Wink

Thanks all for your interest.

Ron
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #13 on: Monday 02 November 09 18:39 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: briant on Monday 02 November 09 09:17 UTC (UK)
Hello,Here's a link

http://caber.open.ac.uk/schools/stanway/army.html



Regards briant

Thanks for the interesting link, Briant
Ron
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Re: Who is this? It certainly ain't my Mum!
« Reply #14 on: Monday 02 November 09 18:45 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: scrimnet on Monday 02 November 09 17:20 UTC (UK)
Not in the US with that uniform!! Grin

I was not suggesting that she was in the U.S. Military. 

 As you say obviously not  a U.S. uniform however I don't discount as yet the picture being taken somewhere in North America, it just doesn't have the feel of the U.K. about it.

As far as the power pole being whitewashed, it looks more like an aluminum pole to me.

Perhaps it is an elm, they grow throughout the world.
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