Erfurt Artillery with Australian Department of Defence stamp

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Originally Posted by spangy

What a great picture rpbcps.

The fellow in front looks as if he would invite you for tea with his LP08 complete with snail drum.
While the fellow in back looks as if he would drop every last one who accepted.

Thanks

Looks can be deceiving, Indeed, I am sure Captain, later Brigadier, Gerald C S Montanaro DSO, was a very formidable fighter. People were not selected to serve in the early WW2 commando units, if they did not meet a certain criteria.

Last week I finished an interesting book, written by a veteran of these early commando units who later went on to fight with the British SOE in the Balkans, Poland and eventually the South Pacific in 1945. If anyone is interested in this period of history I strongly recommend 'No Colours or Crest' by Peter Kemp, recently published for the first time since 1958.