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02-06-2022 05:23 AM
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Looks like he is enjoying an American Coca Cola drink besides, don't think we had had the Soda invasion until post WW2!!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Agree with Gil, no way was that photo taken in 1940.....that bottle of Coke would have come from a septic, so photo not taken before spring/summer 1942 at the earliest.
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If your teeth weren't "septic" already, that rot-gut would take care of them! Can still recall the school science fair projects where the sons of dentists would demonstrate the ability of stuff to rapidly dissolve teeth supplied from their father's practices.
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Just the thing for putting round holes in square heads.
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I can only go on the caption on the back of the photo which states 1940. As I understand it he served for the full duration of the war but left the army soon after the end of WW2. His mess tins that I have are dated 1939.
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During the war, USAF navigator Harry Crosby was assigned to take part in an international, inter-service study group at Oxford studying inter-service relations. He said the Australians kept going on about the American's "khaki color." On and on, "khaki color." He eventually figured out that they were taking about Coca-Cola and the accent was obscuring that.
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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
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Aussies will put a twist on any lingo or dialect Bob you chaps here have dealt with us antipodeans before no doubt in your military service and have probably learnt to keep things bolted down or locked away when our fellows are near lest they get liberated on long term consignment.
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Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
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.
Just the thing for putting round holes in square heads.
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