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A 1903 Sanger Shepherd process[1] photograph of Col. Willoughby Verner by Sarah Angelina Acland, an English early pioneer color photographer.[2
Hate to go off track, but I noticed the colonel's shoes - a narrow elongated-toe brown capped oxford that could easily be a high-end welted dress shoe in the current style from makers like Carmina or Gacciano & Gurling.
Tells me 2 things:
-The Col was a gentleman of means who looks to have been particular about shoe selection and care; and
-fashion hasn't changed much in the last 100 years or so.
What has changed: nobody goes insect netting in a pinstripe suit and oxfords anymore. Heck, they would not even do it in a more pedestrian cap-toed blucher shoe and tweeds like the english were so fond of in the 40's
Agnes Apostle and Joyce Horne working on the final assembly of Browning Hi-Power handguns at the Inglis factory in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Apr 1944.
nice shot of the decals on the frame of the pistols
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Hate to go off track, but I noticed the colonel's shoes - a narrow elongated-toe brown capped oxford that could easily be a high-end welted dress shoe in the current style from makers like Carmina or Gacciano & Gurling.
Tells me 2 things:
-The Col was a gentleman of means who looks to have been particular about shoe selection and care; and
-fashion hasn't changed much in the last 100 years or so.
What has changed: nobody goes insect netting in a pinstripe suit and oxfords anymore. Heck, they would not even do it in a more pedestrian cap-toed blucher shoe and tweeds like the english were so fond of in the 40's
Dont forget that 'pre-pesticides and insecticides' ... the insects weren't that far away
certainly no farther than the nearest out house.
Post 18170 was the USS Minneapolis (CA-36) who lost her bow at Tulagi.
At first I thought it was the USS New Orleans who lost her bow at the Battle of Tassafaronga.
Post 19171 is the USS St. Louis with damage from night battle of Kolombangara Island
At first I thought it was the USS New Orleans who lost her bow at the Battle of Tassafaronga.
Post 19171 is the USS St. Louis with damage from night battle of Kolombangara Island
Agnes Apostle and Joyce Horne working on the final assembly of Browning Hi-Power handguns at the Inglis factory in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Apr 1944.
nice shot of the decals on the frame of the pistols
I probably was issued with one of them in the 90s. I had one that sounded like a garbage can when you took it out of the holster.
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I dont know if this picture has been posted before, caption was "Canadian snipers at Ortona, Italy, Dec 1943". Interesting that the sniper is not using a Lee-Enfield No. 4 (T).
That is a WW1 Warner-Swayze telescope on a No.3 MkI(T) rifle, ie a Pattern 1914. From Clive Law's book "Without Warning", the same photo appears but without a caption.
His "hide" would be better if he was 15-20' further back from the window. The muzzle out of the window says - "Here I am, shoot me!".
Two of Boer generals.Christiaan de Wet (with Mauser 95) and Piet Cronje.
Two things I just found out.One,there was a prison on St Helena for captured Boer officers during the war.Piet Cronje spend some time there.
Two, Canadian troops had major role in Battle of Paardeberg that led to surrender of Gen Cronje.Were Canadian troops in Boer War a lot more important than we are told in history books for last 50 years?
This isn't the first time I run into Canadians playing major roles in that conflict.
Two things I just found out.One,there was a prison on St Helena for captured Boer officers during the war.Piet Cronje spend some time there.
Two, Canadian troops had major role in Battle of Paardeberg that led to surrender of Gen Cronje.Were Canadian troops in Boer War a lot more important than we are told in history books for last 50 years?
This isn't the first time I run into Canadians playing major roles in that conflict.
Did you issue pistol have a rear sight that was adjustable for elevation??? Those appear to be Chinese contract.
