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fat tony said:
The pistol looks like an Ortgies.

Deutsches Werke - Ortgies:

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My guess. but the grips are different. Also, the Ortgies has a grip safety. If he's carrying it the way he is, safety is off, not good.

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There is a constellation of Ruby pistol knockoffs out there, a lot from various Spanish makers. "Point". If we had normal laws you could collect variations & possibly never have one of every make & model.

The Ruby was supposedly not used by the UK afaik. The only other guess I have is the Walther model 4.
 
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^ Just keep in mind that post war Europe was awash in small arms and hand guns in just about every flavour imaginable for the price of a pack of cigarettes.
 
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Interior of the fuselage of Handley Page Halifax B Mark II of No. 614 Squadron RAF. Photo shows some of the many holes caused by splinters from an anti-aircraft rocket which hit the aircraft during an early pathfinding operation over central Europe, ca. 1942. [548 × 800]
 
AP said:
A couple of other things that are unusual about the photo series with the 17/21st Lancers Sgt ... It is VERY 'unusual' to see a serviceman, in uniform, apparently smoking, while wearing his head dress/beret (even in a British Armd Unit!) . Even more so when it is a Sr. NCO .. it is also unusual for a member wearing a holster shoulder strap not to run it under his epaulet - particularly when driving ... and the sign appears to be propped on the wall rather than securely attached as one might expect.
But there were quite a few apparently 'serving' members gathering intel .. at least I know the Brits routinely employed this approach.

an interesting link about immediate post war Austria -- where I believe the 17/21st served during that period

https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/06/14/rearming-austria-wwii-weapons/

those are very interesting pics
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Missing the obvious, the cap badge is British yet the shoulder patches (as is the jeep) is 100% Canadian. The dog of course is German. The thin bar under the rectangular division patch signifies 'army of occupation'. I think this is a ham shot with a buddies borrowed beret. As for smoking, it seems Ok and if you go back to 1st war studio photos many actually had cigarettes for props.
 
bogusiii said:
Missing the obvious, the cap badge is British yet the shoulder patches (as is the jeep) is 100% Canadian. The dog of course is German. The thin bar under the rectangular division patch signifies 'army of occupation'. I think this is a ham shot with a buddies borrowed beret. As for smoking, it seems Ok and if you go back to 1st war studio photos many actually had cigarettes for props.
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This seems the best clarification yet. He was in the Canadian Army not British. He showed me a P38 that he said was taken from S.S.Gen. Kurt Meyer (it now resides in the U.S.) and that he was somehow involved in that general's arrest or later confinement/escort. I have a few more "ham" shots with him and his buddies.
Found some more photos. The First one shows him with his regular unit badge...
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A few more pics.

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It may be a fuel truck. This was taken near an airfield maybe that's why we see that and a wing from an Me109G to the left. Seems to have a white/yellow paint on the wing tip. Yellow ,eastern front or white Southern (African) front.
 
donor said:
Anyone knows what make of vehicle is this?Looks a lot like post war polish Star 25,I wonder if that was origin of the design.

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I am thinking it is a Renault AGK pressed into service by the Germans who pretty much strip mined occupied countries of vehicles. The cab of the vehicle behind it is certainly a Renault AHN .
 
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