Recent content by Alan Robinson

After examining other photos, we have a definite ID of Pct Gordon "Lofty" Rose with goggles at the back, so this is the full complement of HQ stick on Operation Galia, L-R: Pct Mulvey, L/Cpl Smokey Liddington, Pct Gordon "Lofty" Rose (with goggles), Major Bob-Walker-Brown, Pct Ted Robinson, Pct...

I think this is No 3 stick on Galia, with, left to right not including the two USAF pilots, Pct Pat Duggan, ?, Sgt Rookes, Pct Spud Taylor, ?. Pct Tate is named in No 3 stick, but doesn`t look like either of the two unknowns, so a mystery remains there.

This is HQ stick with, left to right, Pct Mulvey, L/Cpl Smokey Liddington, Major Bob-Walker-Brown, Pct Ted Robinson (my father, still with us!), Pct "Sir" John Matthews, and Cpl Joe Cunningham. Pct Lofty Rose seems to be missing. Yes Ken, I think we are now sure that the guy in the goggles is...

This is No. 4 stick, with left to right: Pct Bill Whittaker, Pct Dennie, Lt Gibbon, L/Cpl Larley, and L/Cpl Danny Ford.

Great to see so many descendants of Galia taking part in this discussion. My father is Ted Robinson, of HQ stick. IDs of the famous Brindisi photos are coming on. We now have Ted Gargan, "The Boy Bandit", identified as 4th from left on the middle row, between Trevor Harrold and Smokey...