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Title: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: davidgoldburn on Thursday 13 July 17 18:25 BST (UK)
Hi All,

No idea who, where or what...but WWII?

Cheers
David
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: MaxD on Thursday 13 July 17 18:44 BST (UK)
Or even after.  RASC badge in the middle, others may be able to sus the others.  Don't know the lady  :)

maxD
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: Jebber on Thursday 13 July 17 18:58 BST (UK)
I think it is post war, and  not in the UK. They look to be wearing tropical kit, I think all the cap badges are RASC.
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: davidgoldburn on Thursday 13 July 17 19:31 BST (UK)
oooh ok, so related to the 1948 photo...making sense!
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: davidgoldburn on Thursday 13 July 17 19:46 BST (UK)
MaxD, as I know put it in the photo forum, would you mind casting your eye over it?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=774926.0

Cheers

David
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: jim1 on Thursday 13 July 17 20:03 BST (UK)
Yes at least 1940's -50's. Could be Gib. or possibly Malta but that was mainly RN.
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: Jebber on Thursday 13 July 17 21:46 BST (UK)
Quote from: jim1 on Thursday 13 July 17 20:03 BST (UK)
Yes at least 1940's -50's. Could be Gib. or possibly Malta but that was mainly RN.

Plenty of Army in Malta, at St. Patrick's, St. Andrews, St. George's and  Tigne Barracks. I don't recognise the building, not that that means anything.
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: John915 on Thursday 13 July 17 22:15 BST (UK)
Good evening,

I would agree, all RASC and post ww2. To me the buildings look european rather than mediteranean or middle east ( Palestine).

I'm thinking post war Germany looking at the road and style of windows.

John915
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: MaxD on Friday 14 July 17 09:54 BST (UK)
Had a look at the photo on the restoration thread.  Could be same era, maybe Libya (we used to go there - had to take the pith helmets of course).  Can't really say whether anyone is on the other pics.
Perhaps bring it across to this thread for others to look?

maxD
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: davidgoldburn on Friday 14 July 17 11:58 BST (UK)
Will move it across tonight.

I was wondering if it was early...and Hong Kong, as the DCLI were there 1913/14 and we believe James Joseph was out there too. It could well just be India. But the men look like teenagers rather than "men".

Cheers

Max
Title: Re: Im assuming WWII?
Post by: medpat on Friday 14 July 17 12:35 BST (UK)
Looks very like here - Cyprus.

Could be Limassol, Nicosia or Larnaca.

Note sharp crease in the trousers of the central soldier - it's been stitched in. There were many tailors/tailoresses here who altered uniforms in the early 70s so I would expect them to have been about in the 1940s/50s.

Check for yourself, just put Limassol old town in Google and hit images, plenty of photos to study. You can do the same for the other 2 towns.

 :)