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Originally Posted by Wessex Wyvern
This chap of Guards Armoured Div isn't exactly short. 
Queen Elizabeth talks with a tank officer during a royal inspection of Guards Armoured Division in Wiltshire, 20 May 1942. |
Is this a misprint? Was the wife of George VI referred to a queen, or is this her daughter, the current Queen, although the woman in the picture looks a bit old to be Elizabeth II?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron Goldstein
Tomcat
I was most amused to read the opening item in this thread regarding the height of tank crews.
When I was called .... I found myself posted into the RAC where I learned to drive tanks and my lack of inches was suddenly no longer of importance 
ps
I looked back into my old records and found this letter that I had published in the London Evening Standard in 1984 in reply to someone else who had problems with lack of height |
I would love the opportunity to dig through your recored, Ron.