How about a poll.... Who thinks this picture is Colonel Sink?

A little background on the picture with the three people... my grandpa and grandma married July 17th 1945. Colonel Sink was at the wedding and this photo was taken ebfore the actual wedding at a court house, afterwords they had a full catholic ceremony wedding with an honor guard and the everything else. Paradise press wrote an article saying mr sink was at the wedding because my grandfather was a MSGT Truckmaster SERVICE company 506. I don't know if the picture is him but I will let you all be the judge. The reason I wrote the message above was to explain why colonel sink attended the wedding which might give some meaning to him being in the picture... One picture is of the three of them. another is a close up of the same pic and the other two are mr sink during the war in his gear...


So in closing what are thoughts? I would love to contact someone that might know this stuff so I can document it in my family history. Let the debating begin!

 

Maybe the hatted man is the bride's father?

 

David,

I still stand by my earlier answer that the man is not Col Sink. Even if you put glasses on Col Sink he still wouldn't look like the man in the photo.

Steve W.

 

I say yes. I shall attempt to play Holmes to Slip's Watson too.

1. It is possible for an American to wear a European suit. If he's wearing one to avoid attracting attention and he's in Europe, it's quite the thing.
2. That doesn't mean that he didn't or couldn't wear them.
3. It's a very different facial pose though, the military ones are quite formal and serious, the wedding one is closer to a smile.
4. That's not a shicklegruber to me, looks more like a recently trimmed version of what is sported in the other pictures.
5. The angles of the photo's vary and so that might appear so. If you or I were to have a photo taken from below our eye level in a tight brimless hat and slightly angled from the side, and it were compared to one taken at eye or above level, in a brimmed hat, and straight on our ears would appear bigger and more prominent in the first photo than the second. The different backgrounds don't help either.

He has the same shaped nose, chin and bottom lip.

 

Why would you say hatted man?

 

You both have good points. Would it be possible that he did not want to be recognized and wore glasses + a European cut suit to fool the press?

 

I mean he was at the wedding because it said so in the paper, so that could be true. I wish my grandparents were alive because that would answer a lot of questions but being he is my uncles godfather it would make sense he was there.. but it doesn't mean that he is the man in the picture. It was taken July 17th 1945 so he may have had time off, put a pair of glasses on dressed in a suit so he didn't put himself out there and try to draw attention to himself at someone elses wedding.. I dunno I am just a 22 year old kid learning as I go.. I am a PE major not a historian... sure feel like it at times now.

 

I think the only way you'll settle it for sure would be to get in touch with the Sink family. We can all come up with ideas either way, but you'll need either family, friends or colleagues to positively ID it.

 

I think that may be the most honorable respected answer to the question we have seen... the only people that will know are his family, I think that will end all discussions until that answer is given.. good post.

 

Hmm, I wouldn't be too postive about that. Would a third generation from the Sink family be able to recognize their ancestor? I hope so, but be prepared from a negative answer too. Sorry, I wouldn't want you to have false hopes, but it sure is worth a try.

 

I think you'd need 2nd generation really someone who knew him quite early on, I don't know of his family life but any children he had would be around 50-65 years old. The one deffo positive is it's an outstandingly good reason to get in touch with the Sink family as well as a chance to properly record a small part of history accurately. Good luck!