A WW2 British Tommy

[Gil Boyd]

Oh well we stand corrected. This Coca Cola link tells all............................ it arrived in the 20's here in the UK, so the shot is likely 1940 as stated:

https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/our-busi...rive-in-the-uk

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[GeeRam]

Oh well we stand corrected. This Coca Cola link tells all............................ it arrived in the 20's here in the UK, so the shot is likely 1940 as stated:

https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/our-busi...rive-in-the-uk

I'm still not convinced, as they wouldn't have been making it in UK in 1940 because of rationing which started beginning of January 1940, and included sugar, so no way would they have be able to continue to make and sell CC after that date.

He's wearing 3 stripes as well, so he must have been in for a good few years prior to start of hostilities?
My godfather joined the RA in 1937, went to France in '39 with the BEF, got evacuated at Dunkirk, and got his 3rd stripe while out in the western desert in '41/42.