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    Bottom pic, man in the back has his 1907 blade tied or wired onto his rifle...man at front left seems to have a great lump at the pommel of his 1907 blade...clearly part of it. Strange both...
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    Men of the 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment clearing houses in Venraij, 17 October 1944.

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    A Germanicon prisoner, Unteroffizier Leo Marsiniak, being escorted at Newhaven. He was captured at the gun battery at Varengeville by No. 4 Commando.

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    Tired and dishevelled troops at Newhaven after the Diepper raid, 19 August 1942.

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    Bottom pic, man in the back has his 1907 blade tied or wired onto his rifle...man at front left seems to have a great lump at the pommel of his 1907 blade...clearly part of it. Strange both...
    That lump is his finger lol. If that’s what you’re looking at.

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    Agree with finger!...….not sure about the wire??
    In the Dieppe pic, Bren on left, is that yet another Drum mag adaptor?
    LOVE THIS THREAD, MORE PLEASE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brit plumber View Post
    his finger
    Yes it is.
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    For all the members of this forum, Merry Christmas!!

    Rifleman Corker of 1st Rifle Brigade enjoys Christmas lunch in his foxhole on the front line, Nieuwstadt, 25 December 1944.



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    My dad was at Monte Cassino and as a result has always had the greatest of respect for the Sikhs and Poles. The Sikhs fought like devils in Malaya. Unlike some others, namely the Gurwhalis who were described as 'the galloping Gurwhalis'

    As for wire crossings, we would blow them with a long length of pipe filled with dynamite and smoke pellets. As it blew you cossed where the smoke was

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    Thanks for a great thread! Merry Christmas to all.

    I like the overalls Rifleman Corker has on. Mechanics overalls? Looks like a comfy outfit in the chill of a December morning.

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    We used to call those heavy duty overalls 'tank suits' They were nice and warm in a freezing tank but once the tanks were running, even on a cold day they soon got hot inside - too hot for tank suits hence the ability to draw down the front of the tank suit bib. I only know about the Centurions of course but inside, during the summer it was PT shorts and top when the hatches were closed down on the advance

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