deanstalton Posted 17 May , 2010 Share Posted 17 May , 2010 Hi need some help Arthur Maynard was in the cheshire yeomanry and 2nd Bn South lancs Regiment, do these 2 pics fit the bill of these units which units are the pictures of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 17 May , 2010 Share Posted 17 May , 2010 None are the South lancs. The RH one looks like a Yeomanry but you need to enlarge the cap badges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 17 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 17 May , 2010 Thanks The Picture just pixels out when enlarged According to his pension records he joined cheshire yeomanry then transferred when arrriving in FRANCE 20th September 1916 he joined 2 Bn South Lancashire Regiment i thought The Picture were taken in France Maybe wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 17 May , 2010 Share Posted 17 May , 2010 I've enlarged it a bit and, yes, it does pixillate. However, the two lads on the left, front row, of the picture are wearing Imperial Service badges, and although nclear, the shape of the badge could be the Cheshire's POW plume and scroll. Incidentally, the Cheshire Yeomanry didn't go to France. The 1st went to Gallipoli, then Egypt until merging with the Shropshire yeo and forming a battalion of the KSLI and ending up in France in 1918 with the 74th Division. The other war-raised regiments didn't go overseas as units. Long Long Trail here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 17 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 17 May , 2010 Thanks Steven Was The South Lancashire Regiment Infantry Or Yeomanry? The pictures must be either Cheshire yeomanry or South lancs the person who gave me copys was the son of the guy in the pictures His Medal index card says south Lancs Regiment Arthur Maynard-Born 1895 Stockport Reg no 31594 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 17 May , 2010 Share Posted 17 May , 2010 The South Lancashire Regiment (proper name was actually The Prince of Wales' Volunteers) was an infantry regiment; as max says, the badges are defintiely not theirs. It was a large and distinctive badge, not easily mistakable. I'd suspect your man didn't go overseas with the Cheshire Yeomanry, but was transferred beforehand, or went overseas as a Cheshire Yeoman, but marked for transfer to whatever when he arrived in theatre. As I said, the Cheshire yeomanry weren't in France as a unit, and only as a component of an infantry battalion (after amalgamation) from 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 17 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 17 May , 2010 Thanks For That Steven maybe pictures were taken before he went to france, so looks like it must be Cheshire Yeomanry Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 18 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 18 May , 2010 His Pension Records Are On Ancestry And Medal Index Card if This helps MIC-Arthur Maynard-South Lancashire Regiment-Reg No 31594 Pension Records-Arthur Maynard-43 Ras St, Edgeley Stockport-Reg no 1745 on the group picture Front Row 2 Left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 18 May , 2010 Share Posted 18 May , 2010 Dean, That's the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester in the background of the first photo. It looks like the men are positioned on the Little Roodee, now a car park. This is as close as I can get in StreetView ... Chester - Little Roodee looking towards Grosvenor Bridge This is just below the ramparts of Chester Castle, which IIRC was the CY's barracks at the time. The second photo could well also be the outbuildings of Chester Castle. Another possibility is the Duke of Westminster's estate at Eaton Hall. The Duke was prominent in the regiment and I believe a detachment was based at Eaton Hall. Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 18 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 18 May , 2010 Thanks Mark thats brilliant information, so i can name the pictures (Cheshire Yeomanry And also Location) here is another pic Arthur Maynard(5th From left) With unit Thankyou To Mark, Steven And Max7474 For There Contribution Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 18 May , 2010 Share Posted 18 May , 2010 Could've mowed the lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 19 May , 2010 Share Posted 19 May , 2010 Dean You'll find many Stockport men went overseas during the summer and autumn of 1916 and found themselves swapped between regiments. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBrockway Posted 19 May , 2010 Share Posted 19 May , 2010 here is another pic Arthur Maynard(5th From left) With unit Dean I'm struggling with that one, but there's a possibility it could be the Duke's Drive about half a mile from the Roodee. I'm only about 20% confident of that though! Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 19 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 19 May , 2010 Thanks John Great Stockport Website- i hadn,t seen that before Dean Thanks Mark I very pleased you got the 1st pics, so i can add them to my ancestry tree with the correct information about him (Arthur Maynard). i,ve been looking at his pension records and he had a very bad time with shellshock. Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted 22 May , 2010 Share Posted 22 May , 2010 Lanyards on the right shoulder again, but what year? Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT-Guards Posted 23 May , 2010 Share Posted 23 May , 2010 Dean, couldn't really improve the pixeling' I got the scratch out for you though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanstalton Posted 23 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 23 May , 2010 Thanks C.T Guards It doesn,t seem to help when the picture has to be under 100k Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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