Photographs from England, the Middle East and India

England

A well earned rest?
Eric Carpenter centre front

Middle East

Why is everyone except Eric standing?
15 August 1943
Eric Carpenter in the centre


Said Naya
Bert Connors, It., Jonas Martindale, Bert G.
Malcolm (Mole?), George, Arthur

Not playing harmonicas
Eric Carpenter, Jim Wild, Bill Bode, Vic Cornet in Gedera

Us? Hiding a truck, Sergeant?
Vic Cornet, Jim (Wild?), Ron, It, Frank, Charles H. in Dmeir

We'll never manage to hide all these trucks!
Ron Goodyer, Joe F., Frank, John, Arthur in Mafraq

Camping was always fun
A wet camp in Dmeir

Brilliant eh? We have hidden all the trucks behind bushes.
Outside Galilee
Charlie Sonden, Eric Carpenter, George Waring, Ron Goodwin, Joe Bloomfield, Frank Linsell,
Bill Bode, Vic Cornet, Charlie Shewry, Bert Connor, "Dad" Jonas Martindale, "Paddy" Hannigan


Arthur, Malcolm (Mole?), Paddy (Hannigan?), Bert G. at Said Naya

Training for submarine spotting operations?
Lebanon Coast South Beirut

There was a brief fashion for insects sewn on to the uniforms
Section Officer H.A Nelson with overgrown grasshopper in Persia

We can hide more trucks if we make some of them smaller.
Anti-Lebanon Range above Baalbeck

India

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Ranchi, Bihar, India 1944
Eric Carpenter top row 6th from right

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