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Stoker Rackstraw Tobruk - South Hetton (sout0210)

Five Pit Lads
East Front Street

Photograph showing a motor bicycle with a man astride it; the face of the man astride the bicycle is not in shot; in front of the bicycle is a man sitting on a bomb; he is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, trousers and a tin hat and has been identified as Stoker Rackstraw of South Hetton, at Tobruk, North Africa, presumably during the Second World War; behind the men, a flat terrain with small indistinct figures in the distance can be seen

Stoker Rackstraw Tobruk - South Hetton

Photograph showing a motor bicycle with a man astride it; the face of the man astride the bicycle is not in shot; in front of the bicycle is a man sitting on a bomb; he is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, trousers and a tin hat and has been identified as Stoker Rackstraw of South Hetton, at Tobruk, North Africa, presumably during the Second World War; behind the men, a flat terrain with small indistinct figures in the distance can be seen

Date: 1941


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