well how freaky is that, after putting out an massive amount of adverts on the web looking for carriers, explaining the backround of why i want to restore one, i was contacted by a UK based carrier restorer Shaun Hindle, Basically i recieved "CAN I RING YOU PLEASE! " needless to say i said yes and give my number to him, moments later the phone rang. "CAN I ASK WHERE YOU SAW THAT CARRIER NUMBER T10829" i explained, and before i could finish Shaun had described the exact photo that i had, pointing out that the bloke half way down looking at the camera was his grandfather !!!!! it appears that there must be a 2nd Batalion Royal Scots Fusiliers 5th Div Bug in that grandsons of serving members own or want to own carriers !!! what an absolute mind blow it has been. Shaun is going to send me some pics of his grandad stood on a bridge with some fusiliers, from what he has described it could be the same pic that i have of my grandfather and his closest mates how strange it would be that even though they were part of the same platoon, they were infact close pals !!
I will update as time goes on, but what a story to be told ! UNBELIEVABLE
it would be great to re create the photo of the carriers at the training Depot in Ireland with a load of carriers and the next generation of families.
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