Help with Paratrooper names.

Hi Dave,

I don't have the names but Paul and myself looked at my photos and 2 Para's in the above photo are in them... Second on the right back row and and second on the left front row both I've seen before... And whats this about Airborne fruitcake your just a new boy lol :p

 

Hi all,

Just thought I'd post an updated version of the original picture to show how many more names have been added.

All the best.........

 

What about this suggestion Matt?

I think it is Harlow.
There is 3 small photos of him here, and the uniform shot showing him I guess post war makes me think it is him, plus his age in the jump course picture, because he was pretty much the oldest Padre involved. Sadly there is no record surviving of his course details.

Anyone got any confirmatory info on the other officers? I got this from the assistant curator from Duxford who kindly helped out with my questions. If the photo you have is older than the course date recorded on his jump course record, perhaps the Feb 1945 course is a post Arnhem refresher? Also you mention him as a Major, but from the archive record he has been promoted. I suppose the promotions will be in the LG?

50841 Lt Col Winchester JC on course B151, his unit is listed as 9 Fd Coy RE, which would have put the course date between 30/01/1945 to 16/02/1945.

 

I think it is Harlow.
There is 3 small photos of him here, and the uniform shot showing him I guess post war makes me think it is him, plus his age in the jump course picture, because he was pretty much the oldest Padre involved. Sadly there is no record surviving of his course details.

Anyone got any confirmatory info on the other officers? I got this from the assistant curator from Duxford who kindly helped out with my questions. If the photo you have is older than the course date recorded on his jump course record, perhaps the Feb 1945 course is a post Arnhem refresher? Also you mention him as a Major, but from the archive record he has been promoted. I suppose the promotions will be in the LG?

50841 Lt Col Winchester JC on course B151, his unit is listed as 9 Fd Coy RE, which would have put the course date between 30/01/1945 to 16/02/1945.

Hi Matt,

Sadly I don't have a definitive date for the photo. All I can say with any certainty is that it was taken AFTER June 1944 as that was when the RAF instructor in the photo joined the staff at Ringway.

All the best...........

 

HI Paul,

Mate this is the photo we were chatting about the other day.. Dave added this and when I saw this I thought that Para second in on the right back row is the one we had a chat about with the ring remember..

Cheers
Tom

 

HI Paul,

Mate this is the photo we were chatting about the other day.. Dave added this and when I saw this I thought that Para second in on the right back row is the one we had a chat about with the ring remember..

Cheers
Tom


I was only looking at this picture again this morning and was wondering if anyone had come up with any names.

 

HI Paul,

Mate this is the photo we were chatting about the other day.. Dave added this and when I saw this I thought that Para second in on the right back row is the one we had a chat about with the ring remember..

Cheers
Tom

Hello mate,

Yeah I remember the fella with "the ring" but I'm not sure if they're the same bloke. Here are the other two pics in question. In the first our man is standing at the back in the middle and in the second he is kneeling down second from the right with his hand on Jeff Mitchell's shoulder. There is also a third potential candidate! In the third pic he has been named as either Ed Orbell or Fred Allman??

Have a look and see what you think..............

 

should put them up in pegasus magazine

 

Paul,
Excellant thread do you mind if i add a pic?
I went to Duxford records office before Christmas to research my grandfather and found a pic of him. Does anyone know any of these blokes? Taken at Cottesmore, Ashwell camp whist 10 and 2 Para battalions were amalgamating.

 

Paul,
Excellant thread do you mind if i add a pic?
I went to Duxford records office before Christmas to research my grandfather and found a pic of him. Does anyone know any of these blokes? Taken at Cottesmore, Ashwell camp whist 10 and 2 Para battalions were amalgamating.


Great pic, which one is your grandfather?

 

Hi Paul and All,

Ok I've looked at my files I might have a Name Tommy Peters anyone got a photo of him... ?? I do but want to see what you lot come up with..

Cheers
Tom

 

The L/Cpl in Uniform.

 

Hi Paul and All,

Ok I've looked at my files I might have a Name Tommy Peters anyone got a photo of him... ?? I do but want to see what you lot come up with..

Cheers
Tom

Sorry Tom, no Tommy Peters in my collection................

 

Paul,
Excellant thread do you mind if i add a pic?
I went to Duxford records office before Christmas to research my grandfather and found a pic of him. Does anyone know any of these blokes? Taken at Cottesmore, Ashwell camp whist 10 and 2 Para battalions were amalgamating.

Hello and welcome to this thread. Feel free to add anymore pics you want, the more the merrier! Do you have any more info about the picture of your Grandfather such as the date it was taken and what was his name? I have to say and please don't take this the wrong way, but that must have been the hardest looking Hockey team in the British Army!
As for naming any of the other fellas, the chap standing in the back row, third from the right does look a bit like Private Bernard F. Salt. "Salty" was a member of No.6 Platoon, B Coy, 2 Para at Arnhem and was wounded during the battle. He features in the very famous (and indeed, only) set of pictures taken of the Brits at Arnhem Bridge. The pics were taken of the patrol led by Capt. Killick.
Have a look and see what you think.

All the best..........

 

It it well possible the a lot of them are replacements for the arnhem losses, although the guy with the brussy eyebrowns looks familair

 

It it well possible the a lot of them are replacements for the arnhem losses, although the guy with the brussy eyebrowns looks familair


That's very true Philip. Some of the faces do look familiar though but maybe that's just down to the fact that we've all seen SO many pictures we're starting to suffer from "face overload"!

 

It it well possible the a lot of them are replacements for the arnhem losses, although the guy with the brussy eyebrowns looks familair

Hello and welcome to this thread. Feel free to add anymore pics you want, the more the merrier! Do you have any more info about the picture of your Grandfather such as the date it was taken and what was his name? I have to say and please don't take this the wrong way, but that must have been the hardest looking Hockey team in the British Army!
As for naming any of the other fellas, the chap standing in the back row, third from the right does look a bit like Private Bernard F. Salt. "Salty" was a member of No.6 Platoon, B Coy, 2 Para at Arnhem and was wounded during the battle. He features in the very famous (and indeed, only) set of pictures taken of the Brits at Arnhem Bridge. The pics were taken of the patrol led by Capt. Killick.
Have a look and see what you think.

All the best..........

My grandfather is L/Cpl Upperton rear rank extreme left in uniform. I found this pic in the Duxford records office just before christmas! The man in the front rank centre was the CO 2 para Battalion after Frost, Lt Col J W B Marshall, he was only in command for a year when Frost resumed command in 1946. The Pic was probably taken spring 1945 at the end of the 44 hockey season.
L/Cpl Upperton joined 10 Para Bn from the Royal Sussex in 1943 i have attached his Para course record from Kabrit in April 1943, 2 of the named in his stick died at Arnhem with the 10th. I have all the names from the hockey pic, i will post them later!

 

Lt. Colonel Marshall! Of course! I said some of the faces were familiar!
Here's another pic of him in the centre of the front row.
All the best.......

 

Lt. Colonel Marshall! Of course! I said some of the faces were familiar!
Here's another pic of him in the centre of the front row.
All the best.......

Nice pic Paul, it looks as though that was taken in front of the same Hut at Ashby camp as the Hockey team pic.
Re Pte Salt, the bloke in the Pic was someone called Dean.
Regards
Steve

 

Lt. Colonel Marshall! Of course! I said some of the faces were familiar!
Here's another pic of him in the centre of the front row.
All the best.......

OMG, i just noticed Lt Prince and Capt Parker are in the Hockey team too!!