Brodie Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Hi everyone, I'm looking for uncommon color photos taken during WWII by the British, not painted but real color photographs like those amazing Kodachrome sometimes I find. Here some examples. thanks you all PARATROOP TRAINING IN BRITAIN, OCTOBER 1942 19 October 1942 Parachute Training in Britain. Half length portrait of a paratrooper carrying a Sten gun, having loaded it ready for immediate action. A 15cm gun crew from the 75th Shropshire Yeomanry Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, in action in Italy, September 1943. Notice the soldiers heavily bandaged thumb on the right. March 1944 – Private Alfred Campin of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry during battle training in Britain. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Welcome to the forum Brodie, great photo's, will keep an eye out for more for you. I see you managed to upload your profile picture 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 5 hours ago, kenny andrew said: Welcome to the forum Brodie, great photo's, will keep an eye out for more for you. I see you managed to upload your profile picture Thanks kenny! I would appreciate more of them. Yeah, finally I found out the way to do so 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Excellent Brodie, when you say you a looking for color photos are you looking for the actual original paper photo or just the image to be posted here? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 2 hours ago, kenny andrew said: Excellent Brodie, when you say you a looking for color photos are you looking for the actual original paper photo or just the image to be posted here? Just the image to be posted here Like this one. Now it is your turn folks 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Excellent Brodie, that will be much easier and make a great thread Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery on a London street, late 1944 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Good colour photos. Are there original captions with these, where and when taken? Otherwise the problem is that photos get used over and over again by all and sundry, and the origin becomes lost. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Good point Fritz, I have updated mine with original caption. Here's another of Monty. Wartime photograph of General Sir Bernard Montgomery with his Miles Messenger aircraft 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 undated, unplaced. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 Thanks guys. Great photos. I'm afraid dear Fritz I'm not able to date the photos I added to the colection. Nevertheless, analizing the photo itself one may reach to some conclusions regarding the place or period of the war they were taken. Regards 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Some research could do the photos justice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Yes, if you post a picture and don't have the caption, just write "no caption available" underneath , then if others can perhaps find the original caption, I can then edit the posts to complete them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 Good point Kenny, thanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Another idea is we could post a description, such as the one below for example as in this case it's a famous personality but not everybody may be aware of who it is. So you would have a description, then the picture, then the original caption. Also try to avoid copyright material with watermarks etc. I found the original caption for your first picture Brodie which I will now edit. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was the commander of I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. During the planning for this operation, he memorably said: "I think we might be going a bridge too far." The photo below was taken at Netheravon Airfield it is a grass strip airfield on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, England. Established in 1913 by the Royal Flying Corps, it became RAF Netheravon from 1918 until 1963, then AAC Netheravon(Army Air Corps) until 2012. Buildings from 1913 and 1914 still survive on part of the site. Major-General Frederick Browning, commanding the British 1st Airborne Division, Netheravon, 2nd October 1942. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 45 minutes ago, kenny andrew said: Another idea is we could post a description, such as the one below for example as in this case it's a famous personality but not everybody may be aware of who it is. So you would have a description, then the picture, then the original caption. Also try to avoid copyright material with watermarks etc. I found the original caption for your first picture Brodie which I will now edit. Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was the commander of I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. During the planning for this operation, he memorably said: "I think we might be going a bridge too far." The photo below was taken at Netheravon Airfield it is a grass strip airfield on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, England. Established in 1913 by the Royal Flying Corps, it became RAF Netheravon from 1918 until 1963, then AAC Netheravon(Army Air Corps) until 2012. Buildings from 1913 and 1914 still survive on part of the site. Major-General Frederick Browning, commanding the British 1st Airborne Division, Netheravon, 2nd October 1942. Great job Kenny! Surely I haven't got time enough to do that exhaustive job of reseach. Beautiful photos, rather interesting the one of Monty in his denison smock, how modest and natural, how different from those german generals. Thanks 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thanks Brodie, I have also found the caption and edited your second photo. I'll also tidy up this thread when it becomes bigger. Fritz I have moved your German post to a new section for German Color photos I think it will make an interesting thread too Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) plotters at work at Coastal Artillery Headquarters in Dover, December 1942. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 That's fine with moving to a separate chapter - I don't think I've ever seen any of the above colour photos before, very interesting. Agfa was one of the first companies to produce colour films, if not the first. The Allies did not use colour photography as much as the Germans, but a few key colour snaps were made, as we know. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 10 hours ago, kenny andrew said: Thanks Brodie, I have also found the caption and edited your second photo. I'll also tidy up this thread when it becomes bigger. Fritz I have moved your German post to a new section for German Color photos I think it will make an interesting thread too Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) plotters at work at Coastal Artillery Headquarters in Dover, December 1942. Marvelous photo indeed . Thanks! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Found the caption for your third picture Brodie and updated it. Here's another couple of nice photos this time of our Canadian allies, could not find a date unfortunately. CWAC platoon marching. Canadian Women's Army Corps Basic training in Lansdowne Park, Ottawa 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodie Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 Many thanks Kenny! Awesome photos 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Here are some good photos of a corporal of the Grenadier Guards with a Churchill tank. Guards Armoured Training Wing, Pirbright, Surrey, October 1943. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Another good photo of our Canadian allies, Major General Frederic Franklin Worthington, MC, MM, CD, nicknamed "Worthy" and "Fighting Frank", was a senior Canadian Army officer. He is considered the father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Worthington was born in Peterhead, Scotland. Here he is in a Fox Armoured Car at Parliament Hill. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Very unusual photos indeed, extremely good colour quality. Used then were either Ilford Colour or Kodak. Ilford was more renowned for decades for acurate black and white, they are probably Kodak film. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CluelessTommy Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 These are some very interesting pictures, An article by the smithsonian air and space magazine quotes British war photographers using ‘Kodachrome film obtained from the united states’ It also says that around 3,000 photos were taken using this film however only 1,500 remain and they were given to the imperial war museum in 1949. There is a published book that contains 80 of these pictures and the others can be seen on the IWM website. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=colour+photographs+&pageSize=15&filters[collectionString][MINISTRY+OF+INFORMATION+SECOND+WORLD+WAR+COLOUR+TRANSPARENCY+COLLECTION]=on Regards, Jack 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CluelessTommy Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 A Churchill Tank of the 51st Royal Tank Regiment crashes through a hedge during the advance across the Italian countryside (20 July 1944) Taken by A.R, Tanner (captain) Sailor wearing a steel helmet, carrying a Bren gun (No Date) Taken by an official Royal Navy photographer 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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