Seems that this re-enacting person (click on link) on the Nijmegen vehicles parade on Saturday 20 Sept 2014 lost his hat (stolen ? or wind swept from back of Jeep'). Hat type: Worscestershire Regiment. http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23124653/__Zoon_veteraan_zoekt_legerpet__.html https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=725945990809737&set=pcb.725947227476280&type=1 Maybe one of the forum members was there and saw this character (and thus narrow the window , where and when it got lost ) ? Perhaps actually saw the culprit with the hat in hand ? Check your personal photo's ! contact: https://www.facebook.com/richard.fosterdingley
Man loses hat in dressing-up game. Rupert Golightly Ponsonby-Smythe today told of his devastation when he realised he’d mislaid part of his fancy dress costume. “ I had taken it off after issuing some pretend orders to my men” declared Rupert, (58 3/4) , from his sprawling farmhouse in the Cotswolds. “ Someone must have taken it while I went inside my tent to wash my hands”. “It’s a dirty business you know, war, but I never expected anyone to steal my cap, it was a present from Daddy” he sighed. Rupert now wonders if he will continue to attend the annual bash in his usual outfit. “It’s bad enough as it is, with the RAF boys teasing me and calling me names but having your cap stolen takes it to a whole new level.” “To be honest it started going downhill after all the Eastern Europeans started coming over,” said Robert angrily, his home adorned with portraits of his ancestors. " I could understand it if it were them as I caught them trying to barbecue Balfour my Red Setter last year. I managed to get him back, but they chased us for half a mile shouting something about realism.” “I’ll tell you this though” he declares, motioning to the two paintings of his father and grandfather hanging in his orangery, “Those two were never more than 200 miles away from the frontline in either of the world wars and just look at all their medals, what these bloody Poles and Lithuanians know about war you can fit on the back of a postage stamp“ Pressed on what the future may hold Ponsonby-Smythe added: “Forbes my batman suggests buying a Denison smock with any insurance payout I might get, as all the girls all seem to fawn over the airborne types and mummy said it was about time I produced an heir” Police wish to speak to two males thought to be called Hans and Gunther who were in the area at the time. They are about six foot tall with blonde hair, blue eyes and wearing grey blue costumes, witnesses describe them as having funny accents and eating large sausages.
Haha, love it but l hope he finds his hat soon and lol just because l know it winds up my boys too. Def. (that would do the trick too lol) written by the Army, the Blue types would never have said "RAF boys". Regards, Nick
The hat was found by the side of the road by an 8 year old boy and has been returned to the owner yesterday. Local media reported on the event extensively. Martijn
News that Rupert Golightly Ponsonby-Smythe has been re-united with his hat took a sinister twist last night. The hat, found by a small child in Holland, had thought to have been stolen earlier in the week by Germans, but it now seems to be a group of English men who were responsible. “We see them every year” said Inspector Van Der Valk of the Dutch Police. "They just sit in a field in their deck chairs and occasionally someone rings a big bell and they all run off with their arms outstretched making aeroplane noises.” “We have had to speak to them about chasing the steam trains before now” he added. The child who found the hat is currently undergoing counselling as a result of his discovery. His father said: “ It’s disgusting, there were swear words written in that hat no child should have to read and something about crabs and brown jobs that I haven’t been able to translate yet. As for the “present” they left inside it, words fail me.” Meanwhile, Uk Police confirmed that Mr Ponsonby-Smythe was known to them and had been charged with wasting police time in 2011. “He reported a missing person to us , someone called Sam Browne had disappeared. It was a major search operation and cost £150,000 before Mr Smythe phoned a month later claiming he’d found him, hanging on the coat stand in the local pub” said a police spokeswoman.
