Hello there Everyone!
Trying to sort out is that my great-grandfather on the military family photo or not (inside truck)?
better quality photo:
https://mega.nz/file/Cux00SzZ#CK1xK0...OgjOwTHby0ulv0
- Do you know why he is wearing a sunglasses?
- Is it allowded for an ordinary soldiers?
- What does the "KW" mean? I know that the №55 means the number of pulk - 3KPAPL. №L4806891 seems for the sirial truck number.
Looks like this kind of sunglasses were given to a soldiers who was a driver in the army or may be they bought it by himself to protect eyes from the glare approaching cars?
From the words of my grandfather, great-grandfather after he was wounded, became a personal driver of the officer.
He said that it was pułkownik (in the 3 KPAPL was only one pułkownik dowodca 3 KPAPL Leon Przybytko), but I think that he was wrong, because on the 593 Hill photo, which I posted previously (Monte Cassino cross group), when Andrzej, posted a cartoon to the 3 KPAPL officers, seems that he stand most of all near zastepca III dywizjon kpt. Feliks Szymonski & also I remember that they was a near age to each other.
My great-grandfather born 1907, kpt. Feliks Szymonski born 1906.
Also I remember story, when some day they went together to a some monastery and a local priest treated them a monastery wine and they drunk all together so much that couldn't stand from the table. I think that the pułkownik dowodca 3 KPAPL
unlikely drink like that with an ordinary soldiers.
- How do you think Is it a sunglasses or shadow surrounds the eyes?
better quality photo:
https://mega.nz/file/i24WySBA#JyLfuk...tGfglpc5Z62dX4
- May be is it possible for someone post a little bit photos with soldiers who was a driver in a II Corps or wore a sunglasses?
On the first photo soldier wear a beret and looks like he in a rank of "kapral" like my great-grandfather for that moment. The small white point from the left side of eagle similar to Jerusalem Cross.
- And the last question, why he wear a strange coat, which looks like a
leather jacket & do not include any rank or dywizjon patches on his left shoulder (mean first photo inside truck)?
Do you have any idea about that?
Post some more photos of my great-grandfather Gajewski Walerian:
better quality photo:
https://mega.nz/file/OmwQjISK#MkOdor...Bshbar0h_WsPkg
better quality photo:
https://mega.nz/file/OqoyHIxB#qtVact...7fWZk2ZKoKONsc
Regards, Valerii
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