Adam Brown

I don’t know. It may be genuine but it just doesn’t feel right to me. I can’t put my finger on it. As for weapons…😉

Are these re-enactors? Looks like a modern photo with ageing effects to me

Gravelines’ Vauban fortifications helped stop 1st Panzer Div roll into Dunkirk in May 1940

No other word for it. Stops you in your tracks

Every hour today. It’s still cold and they are still not going out. It’s not getting any milder and those bladders will need emptied eventually.

A small canine clue just out of shot there, Mark

The officers of Nazi U-boat U-2326 surrendered at Dundee on 14 May 1945. One of the officers hit his head on the low intel of HMS Cressy (aka Unicorn) which made a Dutch sailor on the left of the photograph snigger.

Short Home Guardsmen escort tall Luftwaffe officers along a Dundee street after their aircraft crashed in Fife on 12 May 1941

Posting a photo on X of the surrender of U-2326 reminded me that two of my favourite photos from the Second World War were taken in Dundee and put the Master Race in their rightful place.

You would have thought a U-boat officer would know to duck. It gave the Dutch sailor on the left a laugh.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery born OTD 1887.

I came to my blows with my brother when we were much younger over the pronunciation of Navarone. Like Duncan I insisted it was Navaronee.
IIRC Alistair MacLean was one of three foreigners allowed to own a holiday home in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Fitzroy MacLean was another.

Verneuil also saw the destruction of the Scottish contingent which had won plaudits from the French after Baugé.

Looks like the area around the Cenotaph in Glasgow was respected during the rally in George Sq. today.
Odd location for the platform given the stooshie about the Cenotaph in Whitehall the other day.

HMS Ulysses. It wasn’t filmed. There was discussions about using HMS Belfast but it came to nothing.

The spring offensives get little attention but March and April 1918 finished off many of the pre-war TF who were still at the front line.

HLI were there in 1897 during the international occupation.

I love Cornwall’s description of Graham at the top of the hill in Sharpe’s Fury.

He couldn’t stand kicking his heels when the 90th LI were not campaigning. Always wanted to be in the thick of it taking the fight to the French.

Could be. Maybe he’s waiting for him to catch up so they’d be together. It’s too blurry to tell.

And you have a couple of motorised troops on the left in their M35 helmets.

I can see one British helmet in the first photograph.

They do look like Luftwaffe uniforms in the second photograph.

So many lives were lost in those last few months of the war (and the few weeks after) for no good reason. Sickening.

If he was captured at Besançon, I wonder if he had been in 9th Salvage Unit ROAC left behind with the K6 lads when 51st Div moved to the Somme?

An image search came up with this magazine cover from what looks like the same visit but a different AFV. Maybe it was a tank graveyard in Libya?

I guess that the Guinea Bissau mail service has recognised that Nazi memorabilia sells and it’s the same for numismatics as it is for books, models, movies etc.

One has more chance of coming out the other end relatively unscathed than the other.

The boy at the window. I didn’t get to sleep that night and tbh now I’ve remembered it I’ll probably not get to sleep tonight.

The Victor and the vanquished. Both look exhausted.

The only reason I can think of was that the French 5e DIC had two West African infantry regiments (42e and 53e RICMS) nearby along the Somme and both were completely destroyed during that period in 1940. Are there other stamps in a series?

Front cover of the BBC Radio Times for the London and South-east Region for 14th to 20th October 1967. It cost eight old pence. On the left side of the cover is a colour photograph of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in smart khaki service dress uniform with a blue peaked cap with red band and gold braiding, standing in front of a rusting old British light tank from WW2. On the right side of the page there are three ribbons of the Africa Star with a small 8 in the middle of the ribbon denoting the 8th Army clasp which Montgomery commanded. The ribbon is sand yellow with two small blue bars, one navy to represent the Royal Navy contribution and one sky blue to represent the Royal Air Force. In the middle a thicker band of red represents the army. Between the ribbons are the words Return to Alamein in bold letters. Further text informs the reader of a colour feature inside of Monty’s return to El Alamein 25 years after his victory

Screenshot of a Tweet from Graeme Wood showing scans of two pages from the Radio Times of 14 October 1967. First scan shows the front page described in the other image. Second scan shows part of a cast list of the Dr Who episode shown at 5.25 pm on the 14th of October 1967. His text of the Tweet lists several other shows also shown by the BBC on BBC1 that Saturday 12.45:Grandstand 5.15:Tom and Jerry 5.25:Doctor Who 5.50:News 6.0:Dee Time 6.45:The Monkees 7.10:Dixon of Dock Green 7.55:The Val Doonican Show 8.40:Film - Time Limit 10.15:News 10.25:Match of the Day”

Doesn’t look like Graeme Wood has made it over here yet but he’s Tweeted a splendid Radio Times cover from 1967.

Looks like a knocked out Vickers light tank behind Monty. Were we still using them at El Alamein in 1942?

About the one thing they did get right on the latest label is the yellow cuffs of the Gordon Highlanders.

3 versions of the label for Camp Coffee. On the first version dated from before the 1980s a seated Scottish officer in full dress with kilt, red doublet and plaid sits on a drum drinking a cup of Camp coffee. This has been served to him by an Indian soldier wearing a pale blue kurta, red sash and turban with a multi-coloured pagri. The Indian soldier holds a tray with a bottle of Camp coffee. Behind them is a campaign bell tent with a red flag with “Ready Aye Ready” in white letters. At the Highlander’s feet are his broadsword and feather bonnet. Across the top in bold lettering it says “Camp coffee with chicory” . At the bottom of the label are scrolls indicating the manufacturer was R Paterson and Sons of Glasgow. On the second label dated from the 1980s little has changed but the Indian soldier is no longer holding a tray as a servant. On the last label which is contemporary the Indian soldier is now seated on what looks like bales of cotton instead of drums and the sword has gone.

I don’t know what the artist of the latest iteration of the Camp Coffee label thought was at the Highlanders’ feet but it no longer resembles his feather bonnet. I’m stumped to think what they thought they were illustrating. Why not just take it away like the sword?

Very good point. I’ve been using the Alt function to provide extra context for those who can see the image and not for those who can’t. I’m very glad to see there doesn’t seem to be a character number restriction.

Tedder’s reaction would suggest you are right