This photograph was taken at Er Rama in April 1944 and is possibly of 12 Platoon. Photo and identifications by Tom Turnbull, who was a member of 10 Platoon, and Jack Roach’s son, David Roach.
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Front row, left to right: (1) Cpl Verdun Lockwood, ex-C Company, wounded at Sedjenane, returned to Battalion. Wounded again in Italy. (3) Bob Wallace, (4) Sgt George Weston (5) Lt J Gordon McKenzie, who postwar was a journalist and executive with the Daily Mail newspaper. (7) Possibly Sgt George Chester (9) Bill Virr?
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Second Row: (1) 'Taffy' Crewe, (3) George Taylor, KIA 3/9/44 (4) Jack Roach, wounded and POW, eventually in Stalag 7A, on 10/10/44; a Bren gunner, George Taylor was his usual ‘No 2’ (7) Ernie Murray (8) Jimmy Walters.
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Back Row: (3) Jimmy Britland.
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