soldiers at Tidworth, August 1914

[Moonraker]

Suggestions welcomed on which unit this cap-badge represents:

It's not a great scan, I know, but it's the best I can do. The card is postmarked Tidworth Barracks, August 22, 1914, but tents and trees in the background suggests that it probably features Tidworth Park or Tidworth Pennings (prewar camping-sites). I've checked the badges of various infantry units I know to have been in the Tidworth area in August but haven't been able to get a convincing match. The card was sent to Essex, but no infantry battalion from that county is recorded at Tidworth at that time. There appear to be some interesting insignia on the epaulettes.

Moonraker

[max7474]

Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry without doubt.

[Moonraker]

The 1/4th & 1/5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry were at Perham Down, very close to Tidworth, from the last part of August to October 8, 1914, so that might fit.

Moonraker

[headgardener]

1/4th or 1/5th DCLI.

Edit; great minds............

[dunmore44]

the 1st Btn DCLI were in tidworth until 1912

also although a cornish regiment, only about 1/3 were from the south west, the rest came from Essex, London and Birmingham.

[Chris_Baker]

Looks like a TF shoulder title.

[FROGSMILE]

Looks like a TF shoulder title.

Yes I think so too Chris, which fits with the 1/4th 1/5th theory also.