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The Mysterious Operation

Found Photograph Hastings Jan 16 2006

 

This is an intriguing photograph looks like civilian staff engaged in some military administration I wonder if they are civil servants with the War Office- WW1 vintage

 

The man looking at the camera in civilian clothes seems to have a crown shaped which could be one On War Service badges similar to this one:

 

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that civilians wore to make it clear they were not conscientious objectors and to avoid being given white feathers... and the one nearest the camera also seems to have a badge but it is blurred

 

The correspondence the woman on the near left is reading seems to be hand written perhaps indicating it has come from a civilian source.

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Uploaded on January 17, 2006