can you identify the soldier

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Another photo I have found but I have no idea who it is. It was amongst some other Commando photos of my dads so i am making the assumption he was a Commando. All I can make out from the writing on the back are the words "Wounded 1942" . I have posted the photo and the words written on the back in case anyone can work out what the other words are. Any ideas ??

Pete
Possibly- Prisoner Winter 1942?

That's the best I can come up with.
Cheers
Kevin

I had come up with "Winter" too but I thought it might be a surname?

nick

Nick, have just asked the wife (Linda) and she suggests-Meirion Wicker
Cheers
Kevin

Thanks for the replies...looking at the 2nd word could that possibly be part of the date...perhaps 2nd December or September (shorthand or something like that)..the last 4 letters of that word could be "mber"
A pint awaits on Saturday night at Fort William for the correct or best answer.

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The second word definately starts with a 'W' because it's identical to the W of wounded, it also appears to have a dotted 'i' so I think the name of a month can be ruled out, can't it?

Linda's "Meirion Wicker " seems to fit quite well...

I do love puzzles like this - I just hope we can solve the riddle (I want to claim that pint).

Nick

What about a surname of WINBER?

A quick Google reveals Winbers being widely distributed across the country as far back as the 19th centuary - Northumberland, Lancashire, Devon, Middlesex and Essex.

Linda will wait for her glass of white wine?
Kevin

well i have to say that i now believe the 2nd word to be Winter...the W is as in wounded as is the N. The handwriting is old American suggesting it is my Uncle Ken MacAllister TSM of 2 Commando who was brought up as a child in the Southern States. that leads onto the 1st word of which I believe there is a double E with the graph above them. I am told this was often placed above double letters in the USA. the rest I'll leave to you.