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Name This!...(12) - 2/25/2010 10:42:05 PM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/25/2010 11:13:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Reckon that could be British or Australian troops pulling an artillery piece, perhaps a 2 pounder AT gun. Maybe the retreat towards Singapore from Malaya in Jan/Feb '42 ?

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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/25/2010 11:25:24 PM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 12:11:22 AM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 12:12:44 AM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 12:19:05 AM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 3:07:19 AM   
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Aussies didn't wear the WWI hat did they? The pic sprior posted looks like Aussies. Brady's are almost certainly Brits in Malaya or Burma. Recently arrived, too, if the whiteness of their skin is to be believed. 


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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 8:15:37 AM   
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I generaly avoid giving hints, but...



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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 2:12:52 PM   
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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 7:27:30 PM   
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Is it British or Australian troops with a KNIL Boehler 4,7 cm PAG?


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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 9:10:14 PM   
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Original Pick (above) caption:

1941-09. AUSTRALIAN PRESSMEN TOUR MALAYA. MAN HANDLING AN ANTI-TANK GUN. A.I.F. IN MALAYA. (NEGATIVE BY M. NICHOLS).

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Australian ordnance men assessing an Italian anti-tank gun. Identified first on left is VX39177 Captain Sydney Harkess, who was later killed in action, aged 46, in Malaya on 14 February 1942; and third from left, VX48561 Warrant Officer (WO) Alfred George Simmons Hindle looking down the barrel of the gun. The remaining men are unidentified.

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RE: Name This!...(12) - 2/26/2010 9:39:11 PM   
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