can you identify this uniform

[MARGARETFINCH]

Can anyone please identify this uniform it says the Curragh at the bottom

Thank you Margaret

[Graham Stewart]

Well he's definately Hussars, but which regiment of Hussars is difficult to say. He doesnt appear to be 3rd; 7th; 13th; 14th or 19th Hussars as they had a white plumes.

8th Hussars had a red and white plume.

10th Hussars had black and white plume.

11th Hussars had crimson and white plume.

18th Hussars had scarlet and white plume.

This leaves us with either;-

4th and 15th Hussars with scarlet plumes

20th Hussars with yellow plume.

Other than those last three, there's nothing else to distinguish between them I'm afraid.

[Filbert70]

I would hazard a guess at the 15th Hussars based only on the combination of slight tonal differences on the busby (red and yellow). The 15th Hussars were in Ireland between 6 Sept 1919 and 10 March 1920 which could date the photograph. It also looks like he has 2 good conduct stripes on his left sleeve.

Ian

[MARGARETFINCH]

He was out of the army by that time as he got injured in the war and was pensioned out. I have his army paper that are on Ancestry but I really do not understand them. His name George William Poole born in Edmonton Middlesex 3233.

Margaret

[Graham Stewart]

It's certainly a pre-Great War photo, but difficult todate. However the Hussar units already mentioned which it could be were all stationed in the UK in 1913.

4th Hussars at Tidworth

15th Hussars at Longmoor, East Liss.

20th Hussars at Colchester.

Again not of which is very helpful.

Margaret,

See if you're able to download and attach the first sheet of his Attestation papers here and we'll probably be able to help a bit more.

[MARGARETFINCH]

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view....;rc=&zp=50I

I don't know if this will work

Margaret

[MelPack]

Graham wins the star prize - previous service with the ................20th Hussars

[MelPack]

Maggie

You can find the full war diaries for George's two stints at the front with the Queen's here:

http://qrrarchive.websds.net/menu1.aspx?li=1

4/1/15 - 15/6/15 2nd Battalion

13/10/15 - 23/11/15 8th Battalion

Mel

[Filbert70]

Graham wins the star prize - previous service with the ................20th Hussars

in my defence, there's not much to choose between the 15th and the 20th's colours... especially in black and white

Ian

[MelPack]

Ian

Sorry - that was not intended as a shot at you. I could not even begin to hazard a guess at the uniform, let alone trying to distinguish the colours of plumes on a fading black and white photograph.

Regards

Mel

[Filbert70]

Ian

Sorry - that was not intended as a shot at you. I could not even begin to hazard a guess at the uniform, let alone trying to distinguish the colours of plumes on a fading black and white photograph.

Regards

Mel

Mel

I was not offended in the slightest, I was just making excuses...

Ian

[MARGARETFINCH]

Thank you so much will be reading them with interest

Margaret

[MelPack]

Margaret

I think that your man was wounded twice. The date of 20/5/15 for the serious wounding does not appear to be accurate. I think that it was on the occasion of the box of bommbs incident referred to in the war diary.

The second occasion is likely to be the war diary entry of the NCO being wounded.

Mel