A Green Jackets show at Thame in May, 1961. Left-to-right, Robert Howlett, Michael Stockwell and Timothy Malony inspect a machine gun.
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This was the scene at a Green Jackets display at Thame in May 1961.
Robert Howlett, aged six, Michael Stockwell, 10, and 11-year-old Timothy Malony, all of Thame, jumped at the chance to get a close-up look to a real machine gun and its mechanics.
That caption attached to this photo from our archives also says that in another photo from the day readers could see 11-year-old Virginia Tate being shown how to fire a Tommy gun, while her friend Verity Aldridge, also 11, 'cautiously inspects a grenade'.
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