High quality color photographs. British side

[Gildwiller1918 6,323]

To the victor go the spoils: Sergeant Gerard Alderic Durocher - of Canadian Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal - displaying twenty-nine German medals which he acquired as souvenirs. The picture was taken by photographer Michael M. Dean at Schmargendorf , Berlin, Germany, on 19 July 1945. The "booty" aside, Sergeant Durocher wears two wound stripes and the ribbon for the Military Medal (MM) for Gallantry in the field. 

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He must have been well off after the war, could have started a militaria business. In the German army, "plundering" or taking prisoners property was strictly prohibited.

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Many new photos added, see under 25. February 2019

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On 25/12/2019 at 19:35, Gildwiller1918 said:

To the victor go the spoils: Sergeant Gerard Alderic Durocher - of Canadian Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal - displaying twenty-nine German medals which he acquired as souvenirs. The picture was taken by photographer Michael M. Dean at Schmargendorf , Berlin, Germany, on 19 July 1945. The "booty" aside, Sergeant Durocher wears two wound stripes and the ribbon for the Military Medal (MM) for Gallantry in the field. 

That's what I call good provenance 

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Balham, London, 15. October 1940

Removing casualties from the rubble, 1940

Clearing up, 1940

Aldwych Underground, 1940

London, 10. October 1940

The Barbican, London, 1940

St. Peter's Hospital, East London, 1940

London-Battersea, 16. December 1940

London, 1943, unexploded bomb

St. Paul's Cathedral seen from Cannon Street.

An Anderson Shelter, 1939-45

London, September 1939

Portland Street, Marylebone, London, 1940

Avranches, Normandy, August 1944

Children in slit trenches watch aerial combat

Gasmask fitting, 1940

Wartime fashion, 1943

 

 

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Black Watch, South Coast of England, 1940.

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Stretcher bearer of the Durham Light Infantry, 50th Div., attending wounded.