Photos of the first ten years 1978-1988
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Butlitz November 1980
As the Butlitz newspaper cuttings have already been added, it only remains to see the TV news report.
Lots of the old personalities are to be seen, mike Passmore, Dave Bennett, John Oxlade, Tony Dudman etc.
I am up in the watch tower.......oh, and shooting the POWs at 01:13
Cheers, Bill.
As the Butlitz newspaper cuttings have already been added, it only remains to see the TV news report.
Lots of the old personalities are to be seen, mike Passmore, Dave Bennett, John Oxlade, Tony Dudman etc.
I am up in the watch tower.......oh, and shooting the POWs at 01:13
Cheers, Bill.
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Beauty. Thanks for posting that up Bill. Who's the guy being interviewed with his very English accent?
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Although I do remember seeing him at the event, he is lost in the mist of time.dog green 1 wrote: Beauty. Thanks for posting that up Bill. Who's the guy being interviewed with his very English accent?
I hope to be posting some more over the weekend.
Cheers, Bill.
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More like Butschwitz given the location!!!!!
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BRA Germans, John Oxlade, Gary Ashley and Mike Passmore.
Flamethrower.... no health and safety in those days!
A lot of the early issues of the "BRA Bulletin" remain only as fragments in a scrapbook, several of the pics thirty years
on have become stuck together, as is this example.
The JUly 1982 BRA regrouping. The "Marine" unit was a unit I created in Autumn 1981 based on a Kriegsmarine landing
party serving on the Minesweeper "Von Der Tann".... it was this "unit" that invaded Cornwall several years running.
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More 1982......
Tavistock private battle. (Edit: Pic is from 1987)
Swedish tunics were the standard. (This pic is from 1987)
Noonen (a reenactor from the USA) and Fred Walker.
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Tavistock private battle. (Edit: Pic is from 1987)
Swedish tunics were the standard. (This pic is from 1987)
Noonen (a reenactor from the USA) and Fred Walker.
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BRA Bulletin 1982 humour
Although Otto talked about going to Argentina that year, he never did, but this is what it would have looked like.
Most issues of the Bulletin featured a caption contest
Now there is a story to this one. Dave Bennett used to say that we were about as useful as a toastrack on a
battlefield, it was one of his favorite sayings at the time. Then at Thruxton 1982 I turned up on parade with a
toastrack hanging from my Y-straps painted panzergrau!
I was the only one with a Soviet PPSH (it can be seen in some of the early pictures on this thread) I had made it myself
from items I found in my fathers garage, I still have it for nostalgia. Copied from a colour picture in a Blandford Weapons
Book, it is only 1 inch shorter than an original. Everything had to be scratch built back then.
"Adlermen" this was the last reference to Sturmgruppe Adler, shortly afterwards we became the 916 Regt, 352 Div.
Although Otto talked about going to Argentina that year, he never did, but this is what it would have looked like.
Most issues of the Bulletin featured a caption contest
Now there is a story to this one. Dave Bennett used to say that we were about as useful as a toastrack on a
battlefield, it was one of his favorite sayings at the time. Then at Thruxton 1982 I turned up on parade with a
toastrack hanging from my Y-straps painted panzergrau!
I was the only one with a Soviet PPSH (it can be seen in some of the early pictures on this thread) I had made it myself
from items I found in my fathers garage, I still have it for nostalgia. Copied from a colour picture in a Blandford Weapons
Book, it is only 1 inch shorter than an original. Everything had to be scratch built back then.
"Adlermen" this was the last reference to Sturmgruppe Adler, shortly afterwards we became the 916 Regt, 352 Div.
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The Cornwall branch of the WW2BRA
The group no longer exist, but we had many private events in the local copper and tin mines.
At the end of a six day winter event, I am second from left.
This former reenactor saw his picture here and we are back in contact after 20 years!
Martin Medland, stopped reenacting and moved onto other interests in 1983.
The group no longer exist, but we had many private events in the local copper and tin mines.
At the end of a six day winter event, I am second from left.
This former reenactor saw his picture here and we are back in contact after 20 years!
Martin Medland, stopped reenacting and moved onto other interests in 1983.
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Can you post a picture of the replica PPSH41 some day? would be interesting in the creativity of those days...
Where they so rare in that period?
Where they so rare in that period?
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My brother is holding the replica in the last picture posted (1982), and my son Kai carried the replica at Beltring (2008).Salacious Crumb wrote:Can you post a picture of the replica PPSH41 some day? would be interesting in the creativity of those days...
Where they so rare in that period?
Yes, they were very rare in the 80`s because the Cold War was still on and the wall had not yet come down.
However, I will make some detailed close-up photos in another thread soon.