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I would suggest MEDLOC Southbound is more to do with the handling of the case by Interarms or Kline’s and their shipping of it as part of a large consignment.??????
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08-13-2018 10:35 AM
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Both wrong. You get the writing forensically legible and preserved for posterity and I'll tell you a bit more. Someone here care to repeat the best way to wipe and read - and wipe and read - and wipe and read again and again using thinning wipes
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Forensically legible and preserved for posterity?
Someone tell me how to do this properly, or where to send it to have it done, I think I'm game. I'd rather not wreck this by doing it wrong.
What is a "thinning wipe"?
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Anyone have some tips or tricks to help me do as Peter has asked without messing this up?
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The trouble is that I don't know what you'd use in the US. The wipes will be such things as paper dish cloths and impregnate with paint thinners so that you wipe the area and it takes a tiny sliver of paint away - and again and again and again until the markings underneath become clear. Photograph and then go deeper and deeper photographing as you go.
Come on you US forumers, get your axxxx into gear and help a fellow forumer and fellow enfield man.......... I'm just disappointed that no ones got on board sooner Garandy. But they'll all want to know/see the results. Or maybe not.
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In the past I have used nail polish remover, with kitchen role to gently take off the paint. This has helped me reveal L42 chest markings, without damaging the rest of the chest.
MEDLOC I think relates to The Suez Emergency or Palestine around 1947 I think it was MEDLOC route?
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You're getting tepidly warm............ but a few years late
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Found this....
Canal Zoners - Getting There
http://www.britishforcesinpalestine.org/travel/medloc.html
Last edited by DanL96a1; 08-19-2018 at 02:46 PM.
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Iv found methylated spirit soaked cotton wool buds removes paint layers quite gently. It’s slow and gradual and doesn’t take to much off on one go.
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Interesting read!!!
“Egypt
The 6th Airborne was sent out to Egypt. We in the 6th Field Regiment were soon to follow as part of the 3rd Division. Our kit bags were marked, "Medloc 'A' Southbound", and we were put onto a train from Ghent to Toulon. At Toulon we boarded a ship for Port Said.”
BBC - WW2 People's War - Snapshots Of My Past
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