frogturn Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Hello,and thanks for looking. The attatched picture is meant to be a chap called Doug Bolwell,lived in Corsham,Wilts, then moved later to Pill, near Bristol. He married a distant relative. Can anyone identify the regiment so i can trace his military career? Many thanks as usual, Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourlonwood Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Hello, To me, it look like East Surrey regiment. Regards David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Can only find one Douglas Bolwell on the MICs who served as a Pte. with the SLI and Ox & Bucks LI, the badge is neither of these regiments. He's evidently served overseas and being wounded, (note the wound stripe). Badge looks like Cheshires, there doesn't appear to be a crown on top. Any chance of a closer look frogturn? Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphjd Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Only one Douglas Bolwell on Ancestry MICs served as 20596 Somerset Light Inf and 30498 Ox and Bucks. Also 11 pages of burnt service records with an address in Pill he was 20 and a bit years old. Ralph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Looks like it could be the man then Ralph Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pte1643 Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 <------ Not East Surreys. I agree with Cheshires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Scroll is too long for East Surrey - it curves more at the ends and finishes on the points of the star at the sides for ES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 16 October , 2008 Share Posted 16 October , 2008 Cheshire Regiment looks good, see: http://cgi.ebay.com/Cheshire-Regiment-WW1-...p3286.m20.l1116 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 Pals, As luck would have it, I've just been looking at a similar Q in another topic, so these pics were all close to hand ... Ox & Bucks LI ..................................... Somerset LI .................................... Cheshires - - 'Zoom in' of Paul's original (sorry about quality!) Cheshires is definitely the closest of the these three, but I wouldn't stake the house on it HTH Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 I'd say Worcester. I think the "Firm" scroll stans out at the bottom of the lowest point of the star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 How about Duke of Cornwall Light Inf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 OK Pals, Speaking personally, I can't see a light infantry/rifles strung bugle in our badge, so if we're agreed that the photo shows a Garter Star with a scroll underneath, and here's the original as a reminder ... then these are the most obvious candidates ... East Surreys ............. Cheshires ....................... Worcestershire Regt ........... Bedfords & Herts ....... Royal Sussex Regt ---- I agree with the early posts that we can eliminate the East Surreys as the arc of the scroll is too flat and the scroll ends don't come up far enough to meet the points of the star. The Royal Sussex can be eliminated because the Rousillon Plume is missing (as far as we can tell) and the badge is too wide anyway. The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire can go as there's no sign of the maltese cross. That leaves the Cheshires and the Worcestershires. Very hard to be certain, but I think the right hand end of the scroll in our badge seems to be that tiny bit flatter, and there's a hint of the square "Firm" motto box on the bottom point of the Star - both of which make me now inclined to go along with Mr Broomfield and plump for the Worcesters Good call Steven! Whatever we pick, the Garter Star and scroll is nowhere near either the OBLI or the SLI, but we clearly have a strong ID from the MIC and Ancestry Service Records of our Douglas Bolwell with connections to Pill near Bristol being Douglas Bolwell 20596 Somerset LI and later 30498 Ox & Bucks LI with same. The man in the photo is definitely not wearing a cap badge of either OBLI or SLI, so I'd say there's a strong chance the photo is not of Douglas Boldwell What's everyone else think? Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 Ok Mark.Since you put it like that,i go with Worcesters.It was fun guessing. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 It does indeed look very like the badge of the Worcestershire Regt at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 18 October , 2008 Share Posted 18 October , 2008 Is there a "Slightly smug smile" smiley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 19 October , 2008 Share Posted 19 October , 2008 Ok Mark.Since you put it like that,i go with Worcesters.It was fun guessing. Mike Certainly was, Mike! But we've still got a conundrum: a photo of a man in the Worcesters, and medals and Service Records for a man in the Ox & Bucks and the Somerset LI ... with a connection to Pill that seems too unlikely to be mere coincidence! I spent some time trying to connect anyone called Bolwell (& quite a few likely typos/misspellings) with the Worcesters, but got nowhere Paul - how certain are you that this photo is definitely Douglas Bolwell? And do you know of another relative who served in the Worcestershire Regiment? Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 19 October , 2008 Share Posted 19 October , 2008 The attatched picture is meant to be a chap called Doug Bolwell Probably not our man then. Steven, you can't be smug with legs like that The ends of the scrolls are quite distinctive and looking at the above pics I have to agree that.....errrr.....errrr.....your right Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 19 October , 2008 Share Posted 19 October , 2008 He looks pretty relaxed in photo,maybe he was " 'avin a laff ".Possibly wearing a mates cap,so that in 90 yrs time guys like us could get into a lather trying to figure it out. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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