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It is the Cameron Highlanders TA I think although the ones in front look a bit young (might just be me getting older) the way they are wearing their glengarry's I would guess the photo is from the 50's.

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49 minutes ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

Incredible pictures there  IHE.

Just to imagine the death that all those mines could conceivably have dealt out is a sobering thought.

As it happens, they didn't actually deal out much death at all because they were laid across the Northern North Sea so late in the war that they were hardly in place before they had to be swept back up again. This, I believe, kept the Americans in Inverness for some time after the war. Indeed I would not be totally surprised to be told that there were more fatalities among those removing them than there were on any enemy vessels which may have struck one.

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Well, you sure know your stuff C.B.

 I recently read that there was one seaman that met and married an Inverness girl.

If there actually was one American seaman, then it must have been  my aunt that he married--my mother's sister, who went off to America and had 7 children and lived and worked on a farm in Missouri where I visited some years ago.

Can you answer me question for me. Do you think that's accurate?

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On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 11:52 PM, Scarlet Pimple said:

Well, you sure know your stuff C.B.

 I recently read that there was one seaman that met and married an Inverness girl.

If there actually was one American seaman, then it must have been  my aunt that he married--my mother's sister, who went off to America and had 7 children and lived and worked on a farm in Missouri where I visited some years ago.

Can you answer me question for me. Do you think that's accurate?

Scarlet, I would hazard a guess that there were probably more than one American seaman who did that in Inverness after WWI and I do remember reading something in the Courier some time ago about one instance.

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