I’ve posted the pic on my Twitter account to see if anyone else can weigh in with info. There must be a reasonably detailed account of his capture somewhere that might mention being transported by motorbike.
Would like to make a small addition as to the unclear word from post #434. It could be a geographic location, and it could be an island. For instance, "auf Kreta" means "on/in Crete", "auf Sardinien" means "on/in Sardinia" etc. So, undoubtedly, the second letter of the word is "r", the third - "a", the forth - "c". It might be an island. It's coverd with stone pine trees (Pinus pinea). I dare say, it should be "Brac"! Now the island of Brac in Croatia (the German spelling is die Insel Brac, Kroatien).
Too much to post them all here: https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/en/search/?yearfrom=1940&yearto=1940&query=britische+gefangene https://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/db...1940&yearto=1940&query=kriegsgefangene&page=1
BEF prisoners, France 1940. Sarcastic comment on the rear of the photo - “The Tommies on the march to Berlin.”
just a whimsical thought..... with how modern Ai and facial recognition is improving by the day.... if we had known faces from family or historical images.... would that kind of tech be able to recognise people and therefor put context to tricky to place photos?
The 1939 instruction relating to the hessian helmet covers (as they were problematical for gas decontamination) stated that it was only to be done when paint was available to overpaint unit markings. This could well be an overpainted helmet.
best guess is that the LCpl is perhaps a medic and the second satchel (alongside his respirator) is a first aid kit?
It's a little odd. Officers were allowed to retain their webbing and equipment but O/Rs were normally stripped of it. The chap in the middle looks like an officer from his webbing..the other has what might be an 'SB' armband. The lance corporal looks to have a 'mounted pattern' greatcoat...some of the corps such as RA and Signals used them as well as the cavalry regiments...The right hand man has a single breasted coat with no rifle patches.
The lad in the middle has cartridge carriers so I think is an OR, I'd say they have just been captured and so only quickly disarmed and still to be properly checked over
Have come across this video: Filmarchiv | Agentur Karl Höffkes Lots of scenes with POWs. Perhaps, the video would tile in place in this thread, for the main part depicts events of 1940. Though, from 10:26:08 it refers to Poland and 1941.