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Nice Shot... Captures Mood... Does any1 know what gun that is next to him? Is it a M1 Garand?

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called War Photography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called British Army, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

The M1 Garand did not exist then. I would say that it is a Lee Enfield. This picture reminds me how tired a person can really get. It makes me think of my days in the airborne infantry, I remember being so tired that I laid down in a mud puddle and fell asleep. You had to take it when and were you could get it. Ten or fifteen minutes of sleep was a treasured thing.

Great photo, looks as if it was taken Yesterday. It is a Lee Enfield which had a good reputation with the men that used it If it had one weakness, it was that the firing mechanisms were susceptible to dirt and grit. When not in battle, many men simply covered the firing mechanism with cloth (as in the photo) in an effort to keep out dirt which would jam the rifle.

Boy's idea of fun has changed a lot.

A camp near Peekskill, N.Y., s. article with photo in the New-York tribune., July 29, 1917, Page 8 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-07-29/ed-...

B-59: It seems likely that this is the Peekskill training camp for boys set up during World War I. We will add more details when we update.

More on the camp from the New York Times" "BOYS FOR TRAINING CAMP.; Commission Announces Names of First Group from Metropolis. May 21, 1917, ALBANY, May 20.--The first group of boys from Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn to attend the State Training Camp at Peekskill during July has been selected by the Military Training Commission. It was announced that 900 boys from Greater New York will be sent to the camp and an equal number from up-State communities." query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E4D9123AE433A...

It was in the area of Kelly's Corner. From this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello,_Dublin "Starting in the 1980s Kelly's Corner was re-developed. Old Camden Street and Charlotte Street disappeared and the ruined buildings there made way for the Camden Court Hotel. The north side of Harcourt road was developed, Stein's the opticians being the last to go in the first phase, and Gleeson's pub in the second." See also: www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=1996&County...

So we are in the vicinity of the "Bleeding Horse" pub, presumably? In the 1980's, you used to come along the South Circular road, turn left onto the first bit of Camden Street, turn right and double back onto the SCR via what I think was Charlotte Street, then go along the SCR and left again onto the very top of Harcourt Street........ This shows the scene today, g.co/maps/v6g5t - you now go along Charlotte Way to get to Harcourt Street!

www.flickr.com/photos/apl-irl/7080048995/in/photostream This edited Google pic shows where Charlotte Place was.

Irish251 Thanks a million! That's a great help... Think this is one of the first times that one of our photos depicts a street that just does not exist any more - not changed dramatically, but just completely obliterated!

Colin Thanks very much! Added a link from description above to your edited Google Map...