summer 1945
Gents,
A little detail regarding the tie these most proud NCO's are wearing.
The famous canadian author Farley Mowat page 298 in his book ''The Regiment'' calls this tie the ''Zombie tie ''.
He recalls that during most of WW2 , Canadian NCO'S wore their battldress tunic buttoned up as officers wore open collar with shirt and tie.
Only from april 1945 onward were dress régulations changed for cause of uniformity.Reinforcements coming from Canada called 'Zombies '' because they had spent comfortably most of the war in Canada , wore the shirt and tie so everybody was ordered to do so .Them nobody., at first glance could differentiate an old hand from a newcomer .
The question of draftees vs volonteers was very controversial then.
Mowat adds that the tie was black wich is confirmed by the picture..
So the date of the picture is unquestionable. The identity of the two brave canadians is still unknown at this point.
Maybe if someone could enlarge the picture and figure out a unit ...
Happy New Year. Health and remembrance.
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