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Re: R.A.S.C North Africa WW2 photos
« Reply #18 on: Friday 10 December 10 21:58 GMT (UK) »
What a super pic - thanks for sharing it with us.
Sadly Dad died in 1999 so can't ask him your question  - there is so much I would love to ask him now I've studied hos memoir so closely!!
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« Reply #19 on: Friday 10 December 10 22:02 GMT (UK) »
The photo above shows the wedding reception in Alexandria  for sgt  spencer RASC/EFI   to sgt Radway  ATS/EFI
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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 09 March 11 11:31 GMT (UK) »
I think the second sergeant from the left back row is my Dad, he was in N. Africa with RASC, I have done facial reccognision check between this photo and my christianing photo  in March 1946 and it's a 94% match although the guy in the desert has a few more pounds on this may be due to the injuries Dad suffered since N. Africa and the three meals a day he got there. Anyway, I like to think it is him.

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Re: R.A.S.C North Africa WW2 photos
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 09 March 11 18:50 GMT (UK) »
Please allow me to add this photo to your thread  as it also shows another unit of RASC,    but also shows   ATS/EFI    girls or ladies in Alexandria.

Ask  your fathers  if they have ever heard of two sergeants getting married to each other during WW2.

I believe that the man  on the back row is locally recruited  Egyptian with the name Gabriel.  I have a photograph of him and his little daughter with my dad in a park in Alexandria.   The man third from the left standing at back.
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Re: R.A.S.C North Africa WW2 photos
« Reply #22 on: Friday 11 March 11 12:46 GMT (UK) »
To Sapper59, I hope that it is and I have many more photos which I shall put on soon. I do hope you might see another pic with him in to make it a 100% I.D.

Everybody, please feel free to add anything which could make all of our paths cross.

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« Reply #23 on: Saturday 12 March 11 19:57 GMT (UK) »
Sapper59, heres another pic of your Dad.

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« Reply #24 on: Saturday 12 March 11 20:11 GMT (UK) »
Some more.

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« Reply #25 on: Saturday 12 March 11 20:17 GMT (UK) »
They even took in the sights.

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« Reply #26 on: Saturday 12 March 11 20:23 GMT (UK) »
Anyone you know?