sometimes history is right under your nose ! RA battledress dated 1943
Article about: Hi Update on the project. It's getting out of hand....... I have now sorted out the paper work and photos. There are 72 wartime shots of the unit in the UK, North Afrika and Italy. Plus asso
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Re: sometimes history is right under your nose ! RA battledress dated 1943
Wow! what an amazing discovery, looking forward to seeing more
regards Paul
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Re: sometimes history is right under your nose ! RA battledress dated 1943
Hi
I have now the first draft copy of the manuscript done, will add photos and captions and then get the thing printed hopefully before xmas. once the family has seen it i hope to get permission to post the story in one format or another. The text is 8k words !
Watch this space or should I say thread....
cheers
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Re: sometimes history is right under your nose ! RA battledress dated 1943
Pre-war studio photo.Bill is wearing the soon to be obsolete WW1 style putees and a pair of riding breeches and tunic that indicate the 1937 pattern
uniform was yet to be provided to the TA. It is dated 15th July 1939 and was taken whilst on a training course in Weybourne, Norfolk.
Weybourne has long been considered a possible site for invasion, one reason being the deep water offshore. "He who would all England win, should at Weybourne Hope begin". During the Second World War defences were constructed around Weybourne as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. The beaches were blocked by landmines and extensive scaffolding barriers; further inland there were pillboxes, barbed wire entanglements, a long anti-tank ditch and other defences.
During the Second World War, Weybourne Camp was a highly secret site and was an Anti-Aircraft Artillery range. This, along with a complementary camp at Stiffkey, represented the main live firing training ranges for ACK-ACK Command in World War II. It was here that the Finsbury Rifles learnt their trade.
Attachment 432380
Another picture dated July 1939 showing the 12th Finsbury Rifles. This was taken at Stiffkey on the North Coast of Norfolk just along from the town
of Weybourne.
cheers
tony
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Hi
Researching father in laws war and he was in 12 (Finsbury Rifles) Light AA regiment. Can I get a copy of your book?
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Have a look at this link for photos.....
Photo Album for a gun commander in 47th LAA Rgt.
cheers
Tony
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Many thanks Tony
Much appreciated and will help tremendously in trying to understand role of father in law in second world wa as he too was a member of 12 (Finsbury Rifles) Light AA Regiment.
Steve
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