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This young man assembled the museum display, featuring the Royal Enfield. Even more amazing, he has turned himself and even his apartment into convincing portraits of the 1940s.
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"I'm 21 and live in rural Somerset, England, currently working for a solicitor's firm," says Chant in his profile. "I've always had an interest in the 1940s, and I have been a British WW2 re-enactor for several years now," he told me.
His Flickr photos are almost startling for their realism, although the digital color photography instantly clues you in that they are a tribute to the times, not the real thing.
Part of the realism is his youth, of course. Chant (who signs himself on Flickr as Andy Baille-Smith) looks the part of the trim young soldier, alternately devil-may-care or deadly serious.
But, even without a human element, the photos of his apartment make you feel you really are "there" in wartime Britain.
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"The bike belongs to my dad who displays it at military vehicle shows in England along with a couple of wartime Matchless G3L's," Chant said.
"This one was brought back from Arnhem where it it was probably parachuted in during Operation Market Garden. It has been civilianised a bit after the War, but Chris (my dad) is gradually getting the parts. This one was manufactured in 1943."
Chant also contributes to a Flickr group that shoots interesting photos of World War II bunkers. You'll find a link to it on his page. Also on his page is a picture of him at 17, posing as a Dispatch rider next to a Matchless.
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