Landships II

Centurion · Legend

Not quite what it seems

Pody · Lieutenant

Hello Robert!
What a splendid isolation on your beloved island..........
"Hermann the German" is not quite authentic with leather gaiters, a Metford(?)
rifle with a wrong bayonnet, wrong "Affen". helmet-wearing" not to order tec.
Bilingual signposts hint to Wales(?) with AAA-Advertisements

The Rolls's got brand-new spare-tyres and the "Kommandant" looks welsh-clad.

Good shot, though........to pull a fast one on the Daily Mirror or Sun.

Best regards from "Good ol' Germany"

Pody

Mark Hansen · Legend

Pody wrote:

Hello Robert!
What a splendid isolation on your beloved island..........
"Hermann the German" is not quite authentic with leather gaiters, a Metford(?)
rifle with a wrong bayonnet, wrong "Affen". helmet-wearing" not to order tec.
Bilingual signposts hint to Wales(?) with AAA-Advertisements
The Rolls's got brand-new spare-tyres and the "Kommandant" looks welsh-clad.

Good shot, though........to pull a fast one on the Daily Mirror or Sun.

Best regards from "Good ol' Germany"

Pody

I think the signpost, and therefore the photo location, is actually in Ireland. Which would make this a real Irish joke!

Centurion · Legend

Its in the Irish Republic in the early 40s. (Surely every one has heard of Blarney and the Blarny stone?) 'Herman' is more likely to be Shamus or Patrick and is wearing an Irish Army uniform (purchased by the Irish government from Berlin in the late 1930s when Germany once more began to export military equipment). Its no joke.