Photo identification

Discussion in 'Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy' started by Wilco Versteeg, Oct 6, 2020.

  1. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    could it be "1st unit paratroops" rather than 100 & could it be "Flour production manager"? this would fit in with his fathers profession of flour merchant - the writing on both words seem to start similarly
     
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  2. travers1940

    travers1940 Well-Known Member

    The occupation details on the marriage cert are as good as you could hope for, and I notice his wife is in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, rather than the army with the rank of Leading Aircraftwoman service number 1/2019461.

    Noting her former occupation of manequin, and that her father is an actor, this could be her on the 1939 Register:

    8 North Side, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough, London
    Fourth of four households shown there.
    CUTTER Maisie A. born 28.9.1912 - single - Show girl Theatre
    MULLINS Minnie A. born 16.12.1913 (later amended to 6.12.1913) - single - Ladies Tailoring (? Forewt)

    As I understand a manequin in 1940's's Britain is what we would now call a fashion model, but part of their role then could be to model clothes in department stores etc to show clients, as well as for fashion houses.
     
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  3. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    Cpl 858
    1st Unit Paratroops
    Princess Irene Regiment
    Royal Dutch Army
    Flour Production Manager
     
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  4. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    It looks like 'Film Production Manager' to me ? Perhaps that was how he came to meet a 'mannequin'...a fashion model.
     
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  5. High Wood

    High Wood Well-Known Member

    As I understand it a mannequin and a fashion model are not exactly the same thing. I think that the clue is the word showgirl. I think that she may have been a nude model working somewhere like the Windmill Theatre. They were naked but were not allowed to move whilst on stage.

    See Tableaux Vivants.

    Windmill Theatre - Wikipedia
     
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  6. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Floor production manager is a standard job description in many industries
     
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  7. timuk

    timuk Well-Known Member

    Mannequin - Dictionary has:
    (dated) A person employed by designer or shop to model clothes.

    Tim
     
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  8. travers1940

    travers1940 Well-Known Member

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  9. travers1940

    travers1940 Well-Known Member

    As you say this matches more with her 1939 occupation. The registrar would have been limited as to what they could put as an occupation, probably either actress or manequin, and it would depend what the bride had said & how they felt they could interpret it officialy.

    Maybe she combined fashion work with the stage, she was sharing digs in 1939 with a girl in ladies tailoring.
     
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