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Around 288 Court Street.

This house is 289 Court St...we live there now but it certainly is and nice to see what it used to look like....Judy Bright

Nice house! Thanks for letting us know. KPL

7/3/18. This house has always intrigued me. It has been white for as long as I can remember. The awnings and the porch top fencing are long gone, but it is still an intriguing example of architectural design. Would love to see the inside.

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.

It could be Rathlaheen House between Newmarket-on-Fergus and Sixmilebridge in Co Clare - now demolished

Could be. 25" says Rathlaheen House has a protruding porch but it's a good match otherwise.

A short ghost story.

Communism!

Rathlaheen House in Clare now seems unlikely - when it was recorded as the residence of AB Stoney in the 1901 census, Rathlaheen was said to have 20 windows in the front elevation, which doesn't match the current photo (even if we include at least four windows at basement level which can't be seen from this angle)