good day joe brown.sm.yesterday.11:20am re: private Robert love,7/9 royal scots. wartime souvenirs.are they german prisoners of war?r/h side.and your men l/h side.regards Bernard85
good day joe brown,sm,yesterday,11:20am.re:i asked if they were german prisoners of war,after I had sent the post I enlarged the photo's they are german troops.but are they prisoners.interesting souvernirs.regards bernard85
Bernard, Robert Love took these German photographs from a prisoner he had just captured. We had a standing order that our lads should not have or carry personal diaries or have a camera and have photographs of our own troops of equipment or location. They would always be taken if they were captured. I and my intelligence section would search p.o.w.s for such material especially looking for whatever military documents they were carrying including their book they carried with personal identification. Sometimes the officers books would have mention of their unit identification. Joe
good day jo brown.thank you for yor reply.great photo's wonderfull history.stay well regards bernard85