cardiffrob
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4 hours later he seems to have moved to 8 o'clock?
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Ariel fitted fishtails in the 20's and 30's, 1931 advert:It looks like it has a Velo fishtail (I know they were popular in the 30s) and an AJS tank.
OP said from the centre, not from the right
You can tell it's British by the quality of the paintwork on those stripes!
4 hours later he seems to have moved to 8 o'clock?
Spain’s civil war?
I have a few bits from Francos side and they look similar
@Bullet2012 thats cool. Mines 81deg and 60 years later![]()
Greek army?
Are they holding hands in that 2nd pic?
! was going to go with a Balkan army, possibly Chetniks?
working at one of the pits?
I have recently read Fitzroy MacLean' s book Eastern Approaches that covers the situation in Balkans during WW2, the photos in it pointed me in the Yugoslav direction.Nope
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Give the man a Cigar!
Initially Chetniks, later Royal Yugoslav Army. The triangle on his uniform is the equivalent of the MP's gorget. The top one is is him as an MP in the Naples camp at war's end.
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Yes. The Cowdenbeath Colliery was placed on 'care and maintenance in 1943. It was made a training site for Bevan Boys in 1944.
In 1947 it was used as a training site for European Voluntary Workers. The training was 6 weeks. My father was in the third cohort.
I have recently read Fitzroy MacLean' s book Eastern Approaches that covers the situation in Balkans during WW2, the photos in it pointed me in the Yugoslav direction.
Astonishing how slim folks were then and how we have normalized being overweight!
Nice pic, looks like a special day, a birthday or something?Found this one of my now departed mom from about 1955 in a book and did some digital restoration on it and added colour, quite a nice find and the young girl in the picture is soon to be 70, it really does make me respect how pictures freeze a moment in time.
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I never knew any of my Grandparents, all gone before I was born.
Interesting, from the stack of gaskets, spare parts and special drifts, was it either a manufacturer of gearboxes or a reconditioning shop?My wife's grandfather, stood at his bench. This would be Birmingham, circa 1945 ish.