These next photos are from Amanda the daughter of Jim Brannigan she asks if anyone recognises anyone on these pics from her Dad's album (Jim is the chap in the middle on next photo and getting married on the next one)

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1			The name on the next 3 pics is A R Green
2		name's on this pic are J Lonsdale J Morton and W Hulme		Scot Hampton on the Empire Pride
3		T Young
4	No Name on this Pic	J Brannigans Bed Space

E Mail from Jim Costello
I've been racking my bit of a brain (only took a sec or two) to remember the lads name then I woke up at 2.10 this morning and said "Bloody Baxter". Bev was awake and asked me if I was alright as I had been talking in my sleep.
But a bit of info before hand, In 1Pln, I was the L/Cpl and 1 Section leader, My two mates, L/Cpl's Naylor and Hallam, were 2 & 3 Section leaders respectfully. Jack Barlow was our Pln Sgt and Lt Partington was our Pln Officer.
Pic 2C I recall the names Lonsdale and Hulme but do not recognise the lads in the pic. Furthermore, Hulme was excused boots and always wore sand shoes and was on pernament light duties,
Pic 4A Don't recognise the lad and don't recall any of our lads wearing a bush hat and those socks are a deffo no no That Foliage is deffo not Fayid nor is the bush hat.
The next photos Jim talks about are in Jim Costello section Below
2D, Embarking for Egypt, and on arrival straight into Fayid. There are eighteen members of 1 Pln in the main group with no sign off Jim B.
6 A . 1 Pln team, some were also in 2D and others were not. No sign of Jim B.
6B. 'A' Coy team, also no sign of Jim.

Anyway down to business. Maybe Jim B, could have joined us in the new draft that came out some months after we first arrived, as his bed space (pic4B ) is in 'A' Coy lines in Fayid, our first posting abroad in 1950. Also the letter (pic 3D ) is addressed to him, in Fayid.

I'm inclined to think he was in 2 or 3 Pln because pic 3C shows part of the outside line of 'A" Coy tents. Now A.C,and D, Coy' s each had two lines of tents abreast of each other and usually occupied by 5 or sometimes 6 lads. In our case, the first two tents abreast were for my 1 section, the second two abreast for 2 section and so on right down the line. Each line being 9 tents long then running across the end of the line were the Egyptian traders tents. The barber, soft drinks, fancy goods, tailor and so on.

Now pic 8A seems to feature a tent that has three or four tents behind it before it we come to the traders tents. This looks like 'A' Coy lines because our lines of tents where at the end of all the Coys lines and across the wide space to the right of the pic, where Bn HQ, the showers, the Dobi tents, 'A' Coy HQ and the toilets, If Jim had been in 1 Pln there would be at least six tents behind his. Also, his bed space pic (4B) seems too close to the traders tents for him to have been in 1 Pln. Maybe he was put into 1 Pln when he came with the new draft then moved to 2 or 3 Pln.
The only thing I can think of is, maybe he joined us some time after after we arrived in Fayid and then was posted out to another unit. This would explain pic 4C.
Then again, after 56 years, who can be certain they remember everything.
However; I have a photo copy of "A" Coy taken in Fayid, from the Gallipoli Gazette but it is rather fuzzy and I can't recognise many lads from it. Maybe you may have access to the original or a good copy that would allow Amanda to maybe recognise Jim in it.

Joe, another thing just occured to me. Some time last year I replied to a lad asking about his Dad. His Dad is on my pic 6A of the 1Pln team, he is second from the right in the back row and was still kicking around at the time. And I can't remember his name. Is it possible for me to go further back into the messages pages to find out the lads message so that I can contact him and find out if his Dad remembers Jim B?

As I'm into family genealogy I can understand Amanda wanting to know as much as possible about her Dad. But I feel my reply to her would only be too negative as it is, without giving other ways a try

Then again maybe he was in 1 Pln and I can't remember him. Lets hope Baxter can throw some light on this, that would be good.

Geez Joe, I hope you can fathom out what I have written above because it I get dizzy just looking at it.
My Number was, 21187224. But then I enlisted in Feb 48. At a guess, I would say that I was in contact with the Baxter family in the last quarter of last year. But don't bet your house on it!
I didn't know that the lads switched to Bush Hats sometime after I left Kenya, in March 53. However: the mention of them brought back the memory of seeing my first LF. He lived in our avenue and came home on leave during the war wearing a bush hat with the yellow hackle. All very smart and sun tanned, I guess he had come from Burma. Maybe one of Kitna's lads. I can't remember the family's name as they didn't have a young lads my age to knock around with.

These photos have been sent in by Jim Costello

Background music:-
The Mills Brothers singing Daddy's Little Girl.
Jim's mate, Mac McCormick pic A2 back row, used to sing this song
constantly. I'm sure it brings back memories to Jim!

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We sailed on HMT Empire Fowey at noon on 15 April 1950. A smashing troop ship. We arrived Port Said about ten days later and then by train to Fanara and marched to Camp 19/21 in Fayid.

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