Photograph taken at Er Rama in April 1944. Courtesy of Les Brown. Identifications courtesy of Les Brown, Jimmy James and Ernie Scriven.
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Front row, sitting on ground: (2) Foy (3) Tommy Broughton (4) Solomons (8) Ernie Scriven, who was called up from London in 1940 and served with the Battalion from the very beginning in Edinburgh.
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Second row: (1) Bryant, (2) Hall, one of the two Halls in the Platoon. (3) Cpl Frank Reynolds, an ex-Beds and Herts man, also with the Battalion from the start (4) Sgt Thompson, in the Platoon from 1940, see the 1940 photograph. (5) Capt G R Harris (6) Sgt 'Nobby' Billington (7) Howe (8) Cain? Or Higgins? (9) Webberley.
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Third row: (1) Les Brown, (2) Ronald Elliott, (3) Taylor, (4) White, (6) Gaffney, (7) Cram (8) Burton (9) Bill Pinn, another ex-Beds and Herts man: see also the 1940 Bes and Herts squad photo.
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Fourth row: (1) Mason (2) Berkovich (3) Alex Grey, ex-Beds and Herts, with the Battalion from 1940. (6) Name forgotten but remembered as Captain Harris's batman (7) Hall.
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