This photograph of an unknown group of nine happy 16th DLI Other Ranks--and one smiling woman friend--was probably taken sometime before the Battalion went abroad in December 1942. Could their location be outside their billet, or perhaps a local pub? There’s a Corporal at the very centre, a Lance Corporal at bottom left and seven Privates, so could this be a near-complete section of a platoon? If so, which Company and when? I would guess the Rye, Sussex area in 1942 as the location. It’s very likely that several of the men featured would have been casualties at Sedjenane, Tunisia in early 1943. Further details requested.
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