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Who can you recognise ?…
Who do you think you can recognise ?…
From Norman Cliff:
Liberation
Day -
I can only identify two people –
---
(a) Gordon Martin, Chefoo School master, is to the right (from our point of
view) of Emmanuel. Between the two men is a white hat. Martin has
only khaki shorts on, and his left hand is in a V shape up and down.
--- (b) Rev. Howard Smith, Methodist missionary. His face is in the bottom
right hand corner, one inch from the right edge, and one inch from the
bottom. He has glasses on.
From Father Hanquet
Le Père Hanquet me dit que le bonhomme - au milieu - c'est lui. et -----Le petit garçon -avec son baby fat - : ----- c'est moi!
From Zandy
---The picture you have reproduced is the one that
appeared in ABCIFER's March 2000 issue #19, which I have pulled out of my
file. I have looked long and hard at that picture before, even under
a magnifying glass as well, and thought I could only recognise 3 people in
it. (that is before you told be Fr. Hanquet is in the front of the picture
holding your hand, and you know, I think he could be right.)
---The 'baldy
headed' man in centre front row looks a lot like Ron Bridge's father. (Ron may be able to confirm that.) There
are 4 other men to his right, looking at the picture they are in the bottom
left corner. No. 1 and 4 are lower, while 2 and 3 are just behind
them. Well #2, I think is S.A. Smith,
who was a good friend of our family in Peking.
---There is
face there who I think is me, trouble is can't remember owning the 'train
attendants' hat he seems to be wearing. The face shows a left side
profile and is waving the left hand, which seems to be next to the right hand
of the girl wearing what looks like a nurses uniform, complete with
cap. And if it is my face it is almost next to Norman's friend's
(Gordon Martin) shoulder.
----
Block 17 (on the left) if so the fancy window must be the canteen
building on the right and the camera is pointing North along the main road
towards the gate.
From
Ron Bridge:
The picture the "Bridge " family in
entirety are there.
1,The bald man in front centre Leo Bridge
2. The little boy to his left holding hand of uniformed liberator "Roger Bridge" aged 3yrs 10moths.
3. The back view of the woman next with elbow showing "Margot Bridge" Mother
4. bottom right of picture in "Solar Topper" Ron Bridge.
From
Janette,
The
funny thing, is that Janette seems to have located my dad (Leopold Pander Senior)--- waving his hands in the
middle of the crowd. If you enlarge the face --- it is just a large black
smudge! But it is his shape all right ! (?)
From Zandy,
Hi Leopold,
I could not
understand why your father, being so protective, would have let you go off with
someone else. I must confess, it was Fr. Hanquet's positive I.D. of
himself that turned my thinking around.
My first impression was, that the 2 men
wearing sun glasses looked like US service men in uniform though I couldn't see
why one would be holding a little boy's hand. (maybe you have also noticed
that US service men usually wear 'sunny's') . The double pocket in front is US
G.I. (government issue) khaki shirts, later issued to each of us
adults, in camp.
The G.I. (which also is a reference to
a US soldier.) holding the boys hand seems to be wearing a G.I
'dungaree cap' these were usually a work garment, green olive drab in
color (called 'fatigues', maybe from the French word 'fatigue',
pronounced the French way of course.)
The other G.I.
could even be wearing a tie(though it was unlikely) and seems to be wearing his
khaki 'piss cutter' cap. That's the rude word for it, because
I can't recall the correct name for it.
Anyhow, Leopold
those were my thoughts when I first saw the picture.
From Zandy,
I'm still 'sticking my neck out' on the other
person who I still think looks like a GI., even though he is not tall enough to
be Maj. Staiger, Jim Moore or James Hannon and it certainly is not Nagaki or
the Chinese interpreter or Pete Orlick (whom I remember well), which only
leaves Ray Hanchulak who was one of the 3 shortest of the 7.
So there you have
it, my impressions for what it's worth and let me be the first to say, 'It's
not worth much!'.
From
Mike Billinghurst,
My sister found the attached at an 'Old China Hands' meeting some years ago.My
father is the one without a shirt giving the'V' victory sign. I think I may
be the child in the foreground holding the GI's hand!
At one stage I found on the net a map of the camp & a list of occupants
by rooms - then lost it and can't locate it again! Any ideas?
Regards
Mike
I believe one of the two Americans -- the on the left -- pictured in the front
of this photo is Peter Orlich. It looks very much like the snapshot of Peter
Orlich that his widow sent to me. You'll see that snapshot of Peter standing
un uniform in your section entitled, The Magnificent Seven.
Where can I get a good view of this photo to download and mail to Carol Orlich
-- so she can confirm if it is Peter?
Mary
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