Jeannie Anne Leith Doran

[Peterhastie]

Can anyone help with identifying what cap badge and uniform this lady is wearing.

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af6/pet...rt1918BolFr.jpg

Hand written on the back is "Love from Jean 25,11,18 Boulogne, France".

What would her role have been

Thanks

[Sue Light]

There is a medal index card for her showing her as Worker 2895 Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. She could have been doing any of a whole range of jobs in France - clerk, stores, cook, driver ... There is no surviving service record for her (TNA DocumentsOnline).

Sue

[Peterhastie]

There is a medal index card for her showing her as Worker 2895 Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. She could have been doing any of a whole range of jobs in France - clerk, stores, cook, driver ... There is no surviving service record for her (TNA DocumentsOnline).

Sue

Thanks Sue thats great,

why can't I find it on Ancestry!

[Michael Johnson]

Ancestry does not have all of the MICs that are at the National Archives. Women's and gallantry medal cards are most notably absent.

[Sue Light]

Ancestry does not have all of the MICs that are at the National Archives. Women's and gallantry medal cards are most notably absent.

The women's medal index cards are at the Imperial War Museum, and I don't think there are any current plans to add them to Ancestry's online series.

Sue

[Peterhastie]

The women's medal index cards are at the Imperial War Museum, and I don't think there are any current plans to add them to Ancestry's online series.

Sue

Boooooo

[Peterhastie]

Jennie Anne Leith Doran

Uniform or dress up

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af6/pet...ie/Pict0008.jpg

[headgardener]

Uniform or dress up

Dress up. Definately.

An oversize Gordon Highlander's uniform, by the look of it. Did she have a brother or sweetheart in the Gordon's? Probably about 1915, judging by the style of jacket (it's a 'normal' battledress, rather than the type generally worn with kilts which is cut away at the front to allow space for the sporran).

It's quite common to see contemporary photo's of women wearing their brother's or significant other's uniform. Nice photo, though.

[Peterhastie]

No known connection to the Gordons

[Peterhastie]

and Ive just noticed she appears to be holding something, a set of bagpipes?

Only just visible, behind her.

[headgardener]

and Ive just noticed she appears to be holding something, a set of bagpipes?

Only just visible, behind her.

Um.....not sure what you're referring to. She's got a cane under her right arm, and there's a light area to the side of her left upper arm, but I think that this is just fading on the photo; the dappled light effect on this area is basically the same as on the wall behind her.