Normandy Veteran and former WWII RAF Regiment Soldier Ben Bainbridge poses for the camera, holding his sister's 1939 evacuee issue suitcase.Paddington, London, England.
From The Normandy Veterans - (Lest we forget) project, 1998-2002.
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Two things strike me immediately in this photograph - the way his left hand is lit and the straightness of his shadow. Both these things are very striking. Has this man seen the photograph? I bet he would be very pleased with it.
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ReplyDeleteYes Ben saw this photograph, and I gave him a copy of this, along with many other images that I had take. Also if any of the Ceterans where featured in a photography magazine article (I purchased a copy and gave it to them also).
Sadly like a lot of this generation Ben is now no longer with us. So this image is a lasting legacy to him and many others like him, that I came to know during these four short years.