"Specialising In Military History Memories"
Background picture: Rorkes Drift Mission Station, Natal Provence, 1879.
How Times Have Changed!!
We close the year with a more light hearted photograph that could almost be a good candidate for a "guess the caption" competition, now there's a thought?
You may well ask just what a German soldier has to discuss with two modern day British Bobbies and judging by the facial expressions it is obviously not to serious. Could it have something to do with being dressed in a politically sensitive German Nazi uniform? Could it be carrying a weapon in a public place? Or is it simply the clash of two authorities of force swapping stories?
Well, it is intriguing and perhaps echoes a little of what could have been had the course of History not turned in our favour in 1945.
We are always receptive to new stories, particularly those that all to often start off as hearsay and finish up as terrific and long forgotten facts waiting to be rediscovered; so if our readers know of any stories that we should be covering then please get in touch.
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We acquire material for this website from a number of very different sources ranging from the interviewing of local people, the generosity of museum staff, the National Archives and extracts from relevant existing publications both long out of print and current. Where exact sources can be traced and identified we will always endeavour to credit accordingly; any omissions or lapses of this procedure are purely accidental and no malice is intended. Should a reader of this website feel that improper attention to the crediting of a source has occurred then please let us know immediately so that the oversight can be rectified?
Copyright Steve Sullivan, December 2018
Email: blighty-at-war@outlook.com
Email: blighty-at-war@outlook.com
