Jack Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Folks - do we have a Monty look alike on the scene??? Cheers! JB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 We have a good one that comes to our show.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 There is a guy called Micky Barr who hangs with 'General George Patton'. He is a Reenactor as a Monty lookalike, & has been on the 'Circuit' for many years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Me thinks jack is planning something for A+E 2012........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Pull up a sandbag. As a youngster I was vaguely aware that my aunt had served during the war. In fact I heard the story often enough (whenever a particular film came on) but it simply never registered. I joined up, did seven years in armd recce, then got fed up and took the advice of my former Paymaster to transfer into the Pay Corps (and what a great career move it turned out to be). Then a decade ago I came into possession of a suitcase full of my long-dead mother's memorabilia. Including pictures of her sister Daisy in uniform. Then I remembered all the stories. Daisy was attached RAPC and posted to RPO Leicester under the command of Lt Col M. E. Clifton-James, Monty's double. What a coincidence that 40 years after my aunt, I transferred to RAPC and spent much of my seven years dealing with RPO Leicester, yet despite the stories I had been told as a child, my reasons were entirely personal and unrelated. It's a small world. Checking C-J's wiki entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._E._Clifton_James ), I found a lovely line: It was even parodied by Spike Milligan, in concept if not in plot, in the Goon Show episode 'I was Monty's Treble'("So, we need forty thousand Monty's doubles, eh? We'll have to form regiments!"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 @Alienftm Just goes to show how coincidence plays its games. Good story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 There is a guy down the road from me, normally plays a spiv but does Monty as well, Old fella by the name of Joe will try and dig out a picture of him for you Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Here you go mate http://www.rtra-medway-branch.org.uk/chaser.htm Scroll down, Joe is 4th from left "Monty" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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