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 :lol:

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:lol: :lol: Beauty. Thanks for posting that up Bill. Who's the guy being interviewed with his very English accent?
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dog green 1 wrote::lol: :lol: Beauty. Thanks for posting that up Bill. Who's the guy being interviewed with his very English accent?
Although I do remember seeing him at the event, he is lost in the mist of time.

I hope to be posting some more over the weekend.

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Looks like Butlitz is back!!

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paulmfjr2 wrote:Looks like Butlitz is back!!

http://www.powescapes.com/home/
More like Butschwitz given the location!!!!! :shock:
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Butlitz is back? Nice thought to think that they got the idea from this thread :wink:

Here are two more images from the 1981 BRA Bulletin....

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Reenactment 1982

Images are taken from the BRA Bulletin 1982.....

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BRA Germans, John Oxlade, Gary Ashley and Mike Passmore.


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Flamethrower.... no health and safety in those days!


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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.


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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......


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Tavistock private battle. (Edit: Pic is from 1987)

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Swedish tunics were the standard. (This pic is from 1987)


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Noonen (a reenactor from the USA) and Fred Walker.


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The BRA Bulletin
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Summer 1982, Bill and Martin Medland visit the Pink Floyd filmset for the filming of "THE WALL"

Filmed on location at Saunton Sands, Barnstable, Devon. We travelled up dressed in full uniform and the motorcycle
was loaded up for the trip and driven on the roads as you see it in these images.


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Most of the "crew" of the (Cornwall based) Kriegsmarine Minesweeper Von Der Tann reenactment group 1981-1983.


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BRA Bulletin 1982 humour


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Although Otto talked about going to Argentina that year, he never did, but this is what it would have looked like.


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Most issues of the Bulletin featured a caption contest


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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!


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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.


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"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.


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At the end of a six day winter event, I am second from left.


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This former reenactor saw his picture here and we are back in contact after 20 years!


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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?
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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?
My brother is holding the replica in the last picture posted (1982), and my son Kai carried the replica at Beltring (2008).

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.
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