In Garry Apgar's great article about Walt Disney's connections with Connecticut in the April issue of Connecticut Magazine there is a rich array of illustrations (about 20 in all), including
this never-before-published group photo of Walt's Red Cross training
unit in Connecticut, generously supplied by the Walt Disney Family
Foundation.
Anyone interested in ordering a copy may contact Dave Martin, the publication's circulation manager, at: dmartin@connecticutmag.com
Walt Disney (top row, center, dwarfed by two men standing
to his immediate right) in a photograph of his unit at Camp King, Sound
Beach, Connecticut, circa early to
mid-November 1918. Courtesy, The Walt Disney Family Foundation, San
Francisco, Calif.
Here's a detail, highlighting Walt's position in the picture:
5 comments:
As an added note, that group photo of Walt's Red Cross unit in Greenwich is signed by Major H. P. Harding, the men's commanding officer. He's the fellow seated up front in the chair.
I don't want to sound like a doubting Thomas, but the highlighted circled head does not looked like Walt.
Walt might be in the pic but it does not look like him here ... to me! Just saying! ;-) http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/141/590x/Walt-Disney-618650.jpg
Your point is well taken. In fact, the taller fellow to Walt's right in the photo looks a lot like him, too (at that age). However, I have it on impeccable authority that in this instance Diane Disney Miller made the identification.
Is Ray Kroc also in this picture? I had heard that both Ray Kroc and Walt Disney were together in Connecticut.
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