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another picture! can anyone help?


lmcunningham1

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williammyers.jpg

This is another relative but at least I know a little more about this one

His name was William Myers although he was born to German parents and his birth name was Wilheim Strutmeier

He was born in London in 1868

Any ideas on the Uniform or date of picture please.

Thanks again

Linda

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Okay will shoot myself in the foot S.I.W. the badge looks like to me Guards Machine gun corp. or Cheshire's, okay I will now retire for the court martial for the aforementioned offence.

Dan

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Looks like Cheshire Regiment. (It has the same number of points)

Neil

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There you go Dan Neil agrees with you !!

Thanks so much for having a go.

I will look at the Cheshire regiment.

Thanks again

Linda

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Hello all.

It seems odd, IMO, that all of the men shown are "of a certain age", but none of them are displaying any rank.

Wes.

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Hello all.

It seems odd, IMO, that all of the men shown are "of a certain age", but none of them are displaying any rank.

Wes.

Reservists recalled to the Colours perhaps?

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It looks more like Army Service Corps to me.

Steve.

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It looks more like Army Service Corps to me.

For what it's worth, I'd be inclined to agree.

Steve

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Me too and fits with the ages.

Not sure apart from the gentleman in question how you can deduce the rank of the others, except the one lone shoulder who could be any age.

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Are you sure this isn't a "Best Moustache Show" photo?

How funny all those moustache's must have been fashionable for men of a certain age.

Service corp it is then

Thank you

Linda

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Linda,

Do a Forum search on Garter Star Usual Suspects - I think that should turn up a post I did a whiel ago that shows most of theese Garter Star-based badges in a side-by-side identity parade.

I missed off the ASC though, and I think the Coldstream Guards (my post was about a badge that had an obvious scroll) so you'll have to check up on them yourself.

Cheers,

Mark

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Didn't WW1 Cheshire Badge have a scroll. The one in my collection has. Perhaps the greatcoats are a clue.

Tony P

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Didn't WW1 Cheshire Badge have a scroll. The one in my collection has. Perhaps the greatcoats are a clue.

Tony P

Correct - it did. The scroll was only dropped after the war.

Here's the link to the garter star identity parade that the search I mentioned would have thrown up:

Cap badges based on Garter Star - the usual suspects (except East Yorks)

... and the East Yorks

... but as stated above, I only showed the garter star badges with scrolls as the badge we were identifying in that post had a definite scroll.

This one here does not, so I was really posting the link so badges could be eliminated!

Cheers,

Mark

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