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Name This...(177) - 9/20/2004 9:55:37 AM   
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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/20/2004 10:29:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		No real idea..., but that one fellow has "political hack" written all over him so as a guess

I'll say the Mayor of New York trying to gleen some voter support by being photographed

with a bunch of soldiers?

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/20/2004 12:04:01 PM   
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No1 is a Canuck (see arm flash). I didn't think they look aircrew, especialy with no2 with glasses. But the 'T' on No1s arm suggest 'Telephonist ie wireless operator on an aircrew?

But then no 1's arm flash also has (?) RCEME - which makes me think engineer/sigs types? (UK REME was Royal Elec and Mech Engineers, but woudl have been called ROAC in those days?)

SO -
1. First crew to sink a u-boat off Canada

or

2. Managed to fix flat tyre on mayors car?

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/20/2004 8:20:14 PM   
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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/20/2004 9:53:17 PM   
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My lame guess

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 12:51:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, they're canadian at least. Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - RCEME.

The pinstripe man does have some resemblance to William Mackenzie King I suppose, but I wouldn't put my wager on it just yet.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 1:07:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Belisarius

Well, they're canadian at least. Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - RCEME.

The pinstripe man does have some resemblance to William Mackenzie King I suppose, but I wouldn't put my wager on it just yet.


Isn't it CD Howe? Really obscure photo. Good one Brady.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 1:07:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes..the 3 soldiers seem to all be RCEME

The 1st chap has a standardized "trades badge" on his forearm. THe Wreath, "T" and crown means Grade 1. The standardized trades badge was adopted after Sept 1942


http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/trades2.htm

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 1:09:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe members of the "Devil's Brigade" composite unit used in the Aleutians. Remeber the movie with William Holden and Cliff Robertson?

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 1:34:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Judging from the smiles..I would say a mission was accomplished...perhaps they worked on the Alcan highway?


Not likely to be Dieppe Raid vets.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 2:08:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Indubitably a photo taken the instant before the civilian fellow said to them, "Alright lads, now which of you wankers got my daughter a bit of the preggers?"

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 2:45:47 AM   
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Judging from the smiles..I would say a mission was accomplished...perhaps they worked on the Alcan highway?



FYI, most of the Alcan was built by US Engineers. Two groups started at both ends and met up in the middle at ....the name escapes me at the moment, but suffice it to say it was in the Yukon on a cold wet wintery day. BTW of the 10,000 + engineers that worked on building the Alcan 4,000 were black.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 3:57:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK..., so he's a Canadian Political Hack. And the Engineers are smiling because
they've just been told they are going to spend the war re-furbishing this clowns
home instead of being in the assult waves at Dieppe and Juno?

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 6:45:52 AM   
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Pictured in Austraila.

Thanks Ron Saueracker, I was cincerened it might be to obsceure

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 11:42:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		huh? That's the anwer - explain please. And who are the three RCEME?

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 5:30:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kew

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Judging from the smiles..I would say a mission was accomplished...perhaps they worked on the Alcan highway?



FYI, most of the Alcan was built by US Engineers. Two groups started at both ends and met up in the middle at ....the name escapes me at the moment, but suffice it to say it was in the Yukon on a cold wet wintery day. BTW of the 10,000 + engineers that worked on building the Alcan 4,000 were black.


Right...I know that..but there was some Canadian involvement

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 6:16:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Maybe members of the "Devil's Brigade" composite unit used in the Aleutians. Remeber the movie with William Holden and Cliff Robertson?


Just seen that film Sunday. They won the war in Italy not the Aleutians.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/21/2004 6:39:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Unit was indeed used in Italy, each mission basicly used up a section of the force, after 3 missions they were pretty much used up.

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RE: Name This...(177) - 9/22/2004 7:03:59 AM   
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"INGLEBURN, NEW SOUTH WALES, 1944-09-27. MR JUSTICE DAVIS, THE CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER (4); AT LAND HEADQUARTERS, ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS SCHOOL, INFORMALLY MEETS THE FIRST CANADIAN TROOPS TO ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- SERGEANT COULTER (3); F51112 SERGEANT G. WHITAKER (2); C38357 STAFF-SERGEANT L.A. MILLAR (1)."

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