geraint Posted 14 September , 2022 Share Posted 14 September , 2022 I agree - but I've read plenty of memoires where gambling on an industrial scale occurred. I'm ignorant - but is crown and anchor a card game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 14 September , 2022 Share Posted 14 September , 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, geraint said: I agree - but I've read plenty of memoires where gambling on an industrial scale occurred. I'm ignorant - but is crown and anchor a card game? No it’s a game of specially marked dice used with a marked out board, or more commonly a printed cloth that was easier to pack away. Edited 14 September , 2022 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 14 September , 2022 Share Posted 14 September , 2022 Ahhh! Brilliant. Thanks very much for that Frogsmile! Apologies to the OP if there's a slight thread hi-jack. I'm sure the lads in the photo would have known both cards and C and A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 14 September , 2022 Share Posted 14 September , 2022 (edited) 48 minutes ago, geraint said: Ahhh! Brilliant. Thanks very much for that Frogsmile! Apologies to the OP if there's a slight thread hi-jack. I'm sure the lads in the photo would have known both cards and C and A. I’m glad to help and just to clarify I suspect that you and I both know that gambling out of sight in a dugout, is very different to gambling with cash in full view on the table in a YMCA hut in a Stationary Hospital, with duty orderly sergeants on the prowl. Edited 14 September , 2022 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 15 September , 2022 Share Posted 15 September , 2022 (edited) Do you know! The more I look, many of the tables appear to be playing cards. It seems to me that all the men were busy doing whatever they were doing, then suddenly responded to the photographer's shout, turned around and FLASH the picture was taken. Doesn't seem to be a posed picture at all! Edited 15 September , 2022 by geraint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 15 September , 2022 Share Posted 15 September , 2022 (edited) 43 minutes ago, geraint said: Do you know! The more I look, many of the tables appear to be playing cards. It seems to me that all the men were busy doing whatever they were doing, then suddenly responded to the photographer's shout, turned around and FLASH the picture was taken. Doesn't seem to be a posed picture at all! Yes it’s clear from that photo and others like it that playing cards, C&A, draughts and chess was normal in YMCA rest rooms and hospital convalescent centres. It’s just the overt presence of money on the tables (and thus gambling) that would be illegal. Edited 15 September , 2022 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraint Posted 15 September , 2022 Share Posted 15 September , 2022 True apologies to OP - going off here - but to both Frogsmile and myself (both Royal Welsh Fusiliers aficionados), David Jones writes twice about the game C and A in his famous poem In Parenthesis. One mention being attributed to a certain Dai Greatcoat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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