2 Commando photo taken 12/8/1941 in dumfries

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The picture is of 5 troop. The CO and his men. A fine picture I think.

Correction 6.8.2020
The House is Nunfield House and not as shown Nuffield.
Location 65 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries, DG1 1JX.
View in Gallery [HERE....].

when its downloaded its a fine good quality photo

thats not Capt Roy DSO of St Nazaire fame.2nd row from the front ,5th from the left is it ?

Yes - Capt. Roy in the light shirt, holding stick, in the centre.

Pete wrote:have been advised the photo appears blurred even on download..which it is not on the actual picture....so trying to send it again. If it is blurred can someone just let me know and i will try to remedy it again. Thanks.

Pete,
It appears blurred because the photo you have posted was, at some stage, published in a book, magazine or newspaper and has been converted to HALFTONE

Mechanical printing processes could only print ink or leave blank areas on the page, they could not print different shades of a colour or tone.
A newspaper press, for example, could only print black or nothing. However photographs are continuous tone, that is they contain various tones of grey between the extremes of black and white.

In order to overcome this printing limitation the halftone process was invented. The traditional halftone process converts different tones into dots of varying size. The eye has limited resolving power and, at a distance, is tricked into seeing these dots as continuous tone.

If you look closely at the downloaded version of your picture you will see that the image is made up with hundreds of dots (very much like round pixels).

During the printing process, when the halftone screening is applied to images with patterns or previously screened photographs there is the possibility of creating moiré patterns due to the interference of one screen on another.

I think that, in the case of the thumbnail of your photo, the pixels are interfering with the halftones causing the rippled, spotty effect...

Thanks guys for your replies and Nic thanks for the info. The photo paper the picture is printed on is much thinner than any of the other pics I have which goes along with your explanation. I am glad it can be clearly seen when downloaded. I particularly like the picture , not only as I have family in it, but because the striking figure of the officer in the middle of his men , dressed as he is, seems to add a great deal to the overall effect

Hello Pete

Your father is in this photo, from left to right 4th row, position 7, your father, position 6 : Pte Peter Honey.

Best regards

Bernard Petitjean