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My Grandpa and others... - Ashcloud - 09-26-2010

The guy with the mine detector is my Grandfather. Can you spot who any of the other guys are?

The photo was taken outside Tripoli early in February 1943, 13 Field Company gave an exhibition of mine-lifting in conjunction with 51st Highland Division.

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RE: My Grandpa and others... - Hedgehog - 09-27-2010

I can see Churchill....Montgomery...And I think..... Atlee...Might be Chamberlain as well

:whis:

RE: My Grandpa and others... - Gasbag - 10-01-2010

(09-27-2010, 07:58 PM)Hedgehog Wrote: I can see Churchill....Montgomery...And I think..... Atlee...Might be Chamberlain as well

:whis:

That's an interesting photo. Chamberlain (if you mean Neville) couldn't have been there as he was dead by then. I'm pretty sure that he passed away a few months after he was forced to resign as PM in 1940.

RE: My Grandpa and others... - Ashcloud - 10-05-2010

Left to Right
Maj. C. P. Linsell, Lt.-Col. Jack Scott, Gen. B. L. Montgomery (in beret in background), a photographer (unnamed) and a unnamed civilian, Maj. Randolph Churchill, Lord Moran, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Lt.-Gen. M. C. Dempsey, Mr. Winston Churchill, Brig. K. Ray (behind my Grandad), Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Maj. T. L. Gibbs and Gen. Sir Harold Alexander.

RE: My Grandpa and others... - skc007 - 05-16-2024

Fascinating History Ash. A most treasured photo I am sure.
By that time my daddy, who was captured at Gazala ("we awoke to find German tanks coming down the hills BEHIND us.") was POW in Italy and then Germany. (My own grandpa was in the 1st world war. Unfortunately not many war photos of either of them.)