"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there" (LP Hartley, "The Go-Between") is one of the mottos of the Hereford 1938 campaign. (Didn't know we had campaign mottos? Well, we do now.) And after the excitement of Hereford's VE Day Parade, a parade slightly earlier in time, and definitely from a foreign country - the first anniversary parade (1932) of the founding of the Spanish Republic:
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| Smart Spanish marines, rifles at the slope... |
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| Sixth Infantry Regiment...note LMGs as well as rifles.. |
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| Horse Artillery... |
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| Motorised Artillery (interesting travelling position for the guns).... |
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| Anti Aircraft unit with searchlights... |
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| Air Force (note no camouflage).... |
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| Motorised Infantry (fantastic trucks and variety of command cars)... |
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| and finally (for now)...the Ambulance Unit (both mules and motorised!) |
Great additions to previous blogposts on contemporaneous paper soldiers - and if there is any doubt as to these troops loyalty to the Republic, well, a propaganda unit has already been recruited.....
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