Although most of the 'family archive' has
gone to storage now, some months ago; the odd thing still turns up, and while
most of it is not of any interest to the Blog, this fell out of other papers a
couple of days ago, so small I didn't know if it would scan at all!
My father, I think in Borneo/Sarawak
(pretty sure that's one of the Iban tracker's huts in the background), but he
had all four Malaysia clasps (in order of award - Malaya, Brunei, Borneo and
Malay Peninsula) on his GSM's, so it could be any of them, but from his age;
taken long before I was born!
When we were kids he would get us by the
fire and tell us his "war stories", among which his tale of grenade
fishing seemed to be one of his favorites (misbehavior! The apple never falls
far from the tree), and from the grin on his face here, I suspect that that is
how he came by his 'catch'?
Also, re. the other day's Officer
Recruitment adverts, he is wearing JG (jungle green)'s which led to the temperate
OG's mentioned then, although by the time we were old enough to pay attention
he referred to them all as OG's as they saw out their lives as gardening
clothes! No equipment, so clearly a safe-area?
The picture as found, I was amazed it blew-up
well enough to use here, as I never set-up my new scanner, just plugged it in
and tried it and it started taking scans straight-away! But these modern
machines are all more automated in their thinking (AI?) and seem to know to
increase the pixel-rate exponentially when you present them with a postage
stamp!
It may have been cut out of a bigger image
(there's a sequence of Roger Woodiwiss giving first-aid and medical help to
Ibans in their village, one of which is often found in the better books), or
more likely, been reduced for use as a postcard, and then cut-down for a/Mum's
purse's stamp-window thing?
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