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[Bodenplatte]

I'm sorry, but British officers should be banned in perpetuity from wearing berets.

I think that's Roy Urquhart in Service Dress behind the late Queen, and Boy Browning to the left (as you look at it) of Princess Elizabeth.

I wonder if this pic of HM talking to RSM John Lord was taken during the same visit ?

Denison Smock, Helmet Parachutist, Browning pistol, face veil, bulled boots and pace stick.
What a bloke !

 

[alfred_the_great]

I want that British Warm!

 

[FourZeroCharlie]

I think that's Roy Urquhart in Service Dress behind the late Queen, and Boy Browning to the left (as you look at it) of Princess Elizabeth.

I wonder if this pic of HM talking to RSM John Lord was taken during the same visit ?

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Denison Smock, Helmet Parachutist, Browning pistol, face veil, bulled boots and pace stick.
What a bloke !

' . . . and the helmet will be worn with the rim parallel to the ground, both knees are braced and the remainder of the body is erect and square to the front!'

Bless 'im.

 

[Class 66]

' . . . and the helmet will be worn with the rim parallel to the ground, both knees are braced and the remainder of the body is erect and square to the front!'

Bless 'im.

I left you in this position, continue to look this way.............

 

[Itainthalfhotmum]

Corporal Aubrey of the SBS (Special Boat Service) sharpens his fighting knife as he prepares for combat, in the Aegean.

 

[bigeye]

Another one from the same visit:

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'I didn't see you at the camouflage demonstration sergeant'
'Thank you Ma'am'

 

[Cold_Collation]

'I didn't see you at the camouflage demonstration sergeant'
'Thank you Ma'am'

I didn't see that coming.

 

[bigeye]

I didn't see that coming.

With apologies to:

 

[Cold_Collation]

With apologies to: View attachment 524377

I went out yesterday to buy a new camouflage jacket, etc...

 

[mogreby]

I went out yesterday to buy a new camouflage jacket, etc...

I didn't join the army because I couldn't see myself in camouflage.......

 

[wasteofrations2]

"So, you were in the Army?"
"Yes."
"Which outfit?"
"The green, patchy one."

 

[762baynet]

Denison Smock, Helmet Parachutist, Browning pistol, face veil, bulled boots and pace stick.
What a bloke !

Wouldn't want to face a Jerry machine gun with anything less!

 

[762baynet]

Portrait of Captain David Lloyd Owen with Private 'Tich' Cave on the back of the 30 cwt truck behind, outside the Farouk Hotel in Siwa. Lloyd Owen joined the Yeomanry ('Y') Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group in mid 1941 and went on to lead it after the original Commanding Officer was wounded.

Stolen without shame from a military history FB group

Quite ally I think, in an odd sort of way...

 

[Itainthalfhotmum]

Portrait of Captain David Lloyd Owen with Private 'Tich' Cave on the back of the 30 cwt truck behind, outside the Farouk Hotel in Siwa. Lloyd Owen joined the Yeomanry ('Y') Patrol of the Long Range Desert Group in mid 1941 and went on to lead it after the original Commanding Officer was wounded.

Stolen without shame from a military history FB group

Quite ally I think, in an odd sort of way...

Tpr Anthony "Tich" Cave was the eye's and ear's of the 8th Army, serving with Y (Yeomanry) patrol of the LRDG. The attached picture is of Tpr Cave MM M.I.D Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.

 

[Dan Gleebles]

Wouldn't want to face a Jerry machine gun with anything less!

Lt. George walt.

 

[The Assassin]

Lt. George walt.

Darling, please!

 

[ste14w]

I don't know which unit these lads are from, but the look on the face of the fella in the centre is one that says
'Just fill my mess tin, and let me get back to the war..'

 

[Stovepipe]

' . . . and the helmet will be worn with the rim parallel to the ground, both knees are braced and the remainder of the body is erect and square to the front!'

Bless 'im.

Don't forget "thumbs pressed down against seam of trousers"

 

[Dan Gleebles]

Don't forget "thumbs pressed down against seam of trousers"

All four fingers touching cloth.


Although I'm sure that wasn't the only thing touching cloth when they went in.

 

[noliveroundsemptycasespr]

Who says Army plimsols weren't cool?