Potentially NSFW: Interesting picture find

So whislt clearing out the loft yesterday we came accross an old
suitcase that hasn't seen the light of day in nearly forty years.

Inside the case was about four hundred old photos mostly charting my
OH's Grandad's voyages around the world with the Navy pre 1936.

It took me about a minute to decode this picture before going 'SHIT'
upon realising exactly what I was looking at.

This picture is potentialy NSFW(1)

http://petrolcan.me.uk/scan.jpg

(1)I've warned twice now

 

and you can just see the sword blade caught in motion. Amazing.

"I don't think nurofen if going to fix that"

 

Jeez, that's pretty surreal ... As you say, takes a while to realise
what's happening.

Are the other pics also interesting? I mean, could you build a voyage,
say, of where he'd been etc.

An uncle of ours who died a few years ago was, we subsequently found, a
medic on the Normandy beaches and he'd took a camera with him! Sorry,
no scans of them though. He'd also been an avid photographer as he
sailed the world and auntie has a number of scrapbooks of his travels.
Fascinating stuff!

 

Blimey. China, at a guess.

 

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:40:27 -0000, petrolcan

Wow.

My first thought was "where did it go?"

 

Fucking hell, life were tough in 'th' owd Navy weren't they?

 

Nearly put me off my pork scratchings, did that.
Just think what he could have done with a modern dSLR.

 

Nothing old about it - I still do 'em.
I meant more with triggering action and continuous shooting.

 

Which I assumed was a defect in the exposure!

Heh.

 

Indeed, I hadn't realised the sword in motion until Hog pointed it out.

Certainly as gruesome. Found a few of public executions in China.

Possibly. In the album he has written below the pics but it is quite
faded. The loose pics have nothing written on them.

 

Most likely judging by a few other pics.

 

I'll probably scan several more but all I know is that it was between
1923 and 1936.

 

Heh, my first thought was that it was some sort of fish.

 

There's another here of a Chinese soldier at he end of his sword swing.
The victims head is just sliding off and the expression on his face
tells it all.

 

Post it then!

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

In good time.

Eulogy time first.

 

My English grandad[1] served in China with the Somerset Regiment around
1923/4

[1] Had the same name as me


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sum1 said
You got more pics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

 

"Oohya bugger!"

 

(Zeb Johnson) wrote in @storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:

A decent recent film about that is "City of Life and Death"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124052/