Identification

[Wigger K. F. van der Horst]

There's some research done this morning. From the original picture you see here the badge in three different ways again.
Also I measured the size of the Canadian Scottish- and SD&G's.
For both badges are measured with the same width: 5 cm.

The width and height of the Candian Scottish is 5 x 5,6 cm;
The width and height of the SD&G's is 5 x 6,1 cm, a difference of 5 mm in height.

When you put them in perpective, the SD&G looks more narrow.

Is it possible, in some family photo albums is the same picture? How do Canadians think about saving old pictures and letters e.s.o.? Maybe it depends on the fact how the Candian Soldiers experienced the war all over. Example: my father in law, was picked up during a "razzia" at Apeldoorn in 1944 and was during some time at kamp Rees, a city just over the Dutch border. He escaped some weeks later with other prisoners. Because he weared wooden shoes (the famous Dutch "klompen"), he said to them: "I make a lot of noise and I can't walk as fast as you do. So, go ahead and I go my own way. Which he did. The problem was the river IJssel. Near Zutphen, the underground took him accross the river IJssel. I spoke once with him about this event and it was a for him very difficult to tell. He spoke no word about it since than. He never read books or looked television programs about the war. So, a bad experience during wartime can change a lot in life and attitude about the small items which bring back memories about these times, like pictures and letters.