Repair Barrels

[Alan de Enfield]

The second and third photos you show are Dunkirk disembarkation photos I suspect: both taken at the same time and place and the way most of the men are looking off and upwards suggests air attacks or activity at the time. The vessel they have presumably disembarked from appears to be a destroyer; not the usual transport vessel for troops.

I think that it may in fact be embarkation rather than disembarkation.
It looks to me as if they ready to board having handed in their rifles.


Armourers at work in Calais .................



Armourers in their mobile workshop, behind Vimy Ridge May 1917