Bren at War

[browningautorifle]

as dim as a Toc-H lamp

You had to use a flashlight to see if they were lit...

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[tankhunter]

You had to use a flashlight to see if they were lit...

Ha,Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Excellent Jim! I like that!

[Peter Laidler]

Off the subject a bit, but with the advent of those ultra bright LED bulb torches you had to keep impressing on the students that the glow from one of these at night, even at a couple of K's away was an INSTANT attraction to the DS (the directing staff) who were searching out the area with night vision. Whereas you wouldn't need to think about the consequences of the dim glow of a normal torch - well you did but the glow was easily shielded under an arm or cupped hand.

[tankhunter]

Or under a poncho, when studying a Map.....

[browningautorifle]

I remember as a young 'un we'd swipe cheap crap like that and try to hoard it for personal use. The flashlight was among the most prized for some reason, next came the Silva Ranger compass. Later with the advent of the mini mag-lite they went the way of the Dodo. I had three or four around and they would give grief, you could trouble shoot them and then they would fail again next time. Our batteries were purchased by the freight car full so they were long since punk by use time, like the radio batteries...so finally we wised up and bought civvy flashlights and ended our problems. Then the mark of the older soldier was his OWN flashlight that worked and the young had the issue...

[Luis Bren]

Somewhere in Palestine. No date..

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[Flying10uk]

The truck is interesting that's been converted to run on rails. Any ideas on the make anyone, please?

[Luis Bren]

The truck is interesting that's been converted to run on rails. Any ideas on the make anyone, please?

Seems to be an early version of MAD MAX Rail Truck...

A soldier of the King’s Own Royal Regiment on train escort in a truck adapted to run on rails. Other patrols used enclosed wagons. Train escort was,‘….a soul searing job which entailed sitting for hours in oven-hot iron trucks, lumbering slowly through deep defiles, bored, sweating and dirty.’ Lion and Rose Regimental Magazine, 1939. By kind permission of the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster. (You could probably shorten this to basic 'A British soldier on train escort duty during the 1936-39 Arab Uprising in Palestine. Copyright the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster.'

Britain In Palestine, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London

[Flying10uk]

1936-39 Arab Uprising in Palestine.

I haven't heard of this uprising, by the Arabs, in Palestine just before WW2. The only uprising in Palestine, while under British derestriction, that ever seems to get mentioned here is the one that happened just after WW2 and led to the creation of modern-day Israel.

[Luis Bren]

THE ALLIED LANDINGS AT ANZIO: 22 JANUARY-23 MAY 1944 | Imperial War Museums