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Old 19-01-20, 06:30 PM
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This photograph was taken from a photograph album that belonged to a Sgt in the intelligence Corps. He appears to have served from 1946 in Italy, Egypt and Palestine. The sign would suggest a 'cloak and dagger' role.
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Old 19-01-20, 10:06 PM
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Member Mike Jackson is the man to help on this. I can only add that the Sandeman Port figure was often found on the shelves of Intelligence Corps bars!

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Thanks for that. I haven't noticed Mike being on the forum much lately but I very much hope that he will see this thread.

The Sandeman's point is interesting but the figure is holding a staff in one hand and a dagger in the other rather than a glass of port.
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Mike Jackson is on the case!

The vehicle could be a Commer Q4 3 ton truck.

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Old 20-01-20, 10:23 AM
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Thanks for the update.

Amongst the paperwork that came with the album there is a reference to 55 Field Security Section, Intelligence Corps. I am sure that this will be a pointer to the identification.
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Rather than the Sandeman Port man, I'd rather suggest "cloak and dagger".
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The Sandeman statuettes displayed behind the bar in Intelligence Corps units had the wine/port glass replaced with a dagger. Sorry I did not make this clear in my earlier post.

United States Military Intelligence actually have a presentation “cloak and dagger” statuette.

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Also there was a Sandeman Port UK TV advert with Orson Welles playing the cloaked man in a big hat!

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The vehicle is Dodge D15 or the 3 tonner version. You can see the Canadain manufactured side light in the picture.

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Thank you for identifying the vehicle.
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This thread is certainly testing my memory! Commer and Dodge are related.
Back in the early 1980s, when stationed in Germany, I owned a Dodge motor caravan, similar to the one in the photo, which was actually an updated Commer van of the type used in the UK by Post Office Telephones then British Telecom.

One day I was approached by an elderly German in a car park in Celle. “A Dodge” he said with obvious enthusiasm and admiration. “In the war I was in the Afrika Corps in the desert and drove a captured dodge truck. It was the best vehicle i ever drove!”

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