Ghazala Posted 4 February , 2014 Share Posted 4 February , 2014 Circa 1916 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 6 February , 2014 Share Posted 6 February , 2014 Someone put this up last year and wondered who the two girls were. This one has a caption saying they were WAACs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 8 February , 2014 Share Posted 8 February , 2014 A picture of a post card released by the Historial de Peronne, Museum of WW1, shows a drawing of a German soldier leaving his family to go fight during the First World War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrank Posted 8 February , 2014 Share Posted 8 February , 2014 From war's end. On reverse - 'Annappes (Lille) Xmas Day 1918. Percy is blowing the 'instrument' and Johnny Gardner has the music' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 9 February , 2014 Share Posted 9 February , 2014 photo card picture of a group of men of the 17th. Armoured Car Battalion, probably after arrival in Ireland ,from Calogne. Crimson Rambler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 14 February , 2014 Share Posted 14 February , 2014 Another photo post card of an Officer of the 17th Armoured Car Bt.again in Ireland (after Calogne early 1919) I have no record of his name. Crimson Rambler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Abbott Posted 16 February , 2014 Share Posted 16 February , 2014 Piper R Taylor from Poplar. 1/18th London Irish, 1918. Note the dark green cuffs, dark green diamond battalion sign and TOS with dark green badge backing. Note the way the overseas service have been applied to the bandsman's inverted 4 chevrons surmounted by the bugle badge. Dark green cords with a loop worn around the neck. Dark green hose worn with full length puttees and saffron kilt. Dark green bagpipe cords. The hose flashes were also saffron coloured. The jacket is a normal SD issue, complete with London Irish black buttons, with the front skirts roughly tacked back to simulate a highland 'cut away' look. This was very common in kilted units and it avoided permanent alteration to the jacket, which had been prohibited by a GRO earlier in the war. Regards Tocemma For the other pipers on the forum..... Interesting that his instrument has three drones and not two as was common in 'Irish' units back then (indeed, until the 1960s). Maybe it's just the way that they're under his arm but it looks as though all three are different. I wonder if this is one of the sets made by Starck which included a bass drone, tenor drone and alto/barritone drone? The chanter looks like a normal one....and not one of the keyed 'Brian Boru' chanters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrank Posted 19 February , 2014 Share Posted 19 February , 2014 A view of the Ruhleben camp........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrank Posted 19 February , 2014 Share Posted 19 February , 2014 Probably an image of the sender of this PC. Think it is signed 'Fred Mullens' but definitely of D Coy, 7th Glos, Marne Huts, Blackdown, Surrey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFayers Posted 20 February , 2014 Share Posted 20 February , 2014 Thanks for posting Mike. Is that a signaler's badge on his left forearm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctord84 Posted 20 February , 2014 Share Posted 20 February , 2014 Horace John Cook (Royal Engineers, in civvies) convalescing back home, after being wounded on the western front, with a bunch of his mates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 21 February , 2014 Share Posted 21 February , 2014 Thanks for posting Mike. Is that a signaler's badge on his left forearm? Yes it is a signaller's badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfrank Posted 3 March , 2014 Share Posted 3 March , 2014 Picked this up in Exeter a few years ago. Written in pencil to the reverse 'Killed Nov 2nd 1917 at Palestine aged 24'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bardess Posted 4 March , 2014 Share Posted 4 March , 2014 Hmmm, I wonder if it is Cpl Thomas Peters Lee, ASC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 4 March , 2014 Share Posted 4 March , 2014 image.jpg Picked this up in Exeter a few years ago. Written in pencil to the reverse 'Killed Nov 2nd 1917 at Palestine aged 24'. Black buttons and what looks like a Territorial Force shoulder title... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grovetown Posted 4 March , 2014 Share Posted 4 March , 2014 image.jpg Picked this up in Exeter a few years ago. Written in pencil to the reverse 'Killed Nov 2nd 1917 at Palestine aged 24'. Two possibles I reckon: Edward Bowman 1/10th London (Hackney). http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1644494/ John Cannon. Also 1/10th. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1644647/ Cheers, GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnbo Lad Posted 15 March , 2014 Share Posted 15 March , 2014 Photo is believed to show Private William Thomas Carr Anderson 39163 13th Royal Scots, formerly S/12867 11th Black Watch. He was killed in action on 22nd August 1917 aged 25 years. Born in Australia but had arrived in this country along with his parents by 1911 when he is described in the 1911 census as a "British Subject by parentage". He married a Charlotte L. Cameron on the 28th April 1916 at Ladyloan Parish Church, Arbroath while under training as a member of B Company 11th Black watch. Private Anderson is buried at Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery and is remembered on the Arbroath War memorial and in the book "Roll of Honour Arbroath and District 1914:1919" by T. Buncle & Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aboode Posted 4 April , 2014 Share Posted 4 April , 2014 Thanks Squirrel, On the back of the card in pencil is 'Piper R Taylor, 56 Bromley Hall Road, Poplar. With best wishes' Shame it can't be Id'd Tocemma The list of Pipers on the London Irish Rifles Association mentions " Taylor, R. 1919 " with an asterix denoting he was P/M - not sure when exactly he was a Piper of Pipe Major in the LIR and which battalion. Aad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 4 April , 2014 Share Posted 4 April , 2014 .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocemma Posted 4 April , 2014 Share Posted 4 April , 2014 The list of Pipers on the London Irish Rifles Association mentions " Taylor, R. 1919 " with an asterix denoting he was P/M - not sure when exactly he was a Piper of Pipe Major in the LIR and which battalion. Aad Thanks very much for the info. I'll have another look in light of that. regards Tocemma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muckandbullets Posted 5 April , 2014 Share Posted 5 April , 2014 Can anybody help with this one as to which unit. It is a photo of a friends Grandfather. I had to take it on my mobile from a picture in a frame. The cap badge etc is not very clear but neither is it in the actual picture. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 5 April , 2014 Author Share Posted 5 April , 2014 Army Ordnance Corps I think TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 5 April , 2014 Share Posted 5 April , 2014 Yes definitely Army Ordnance Corps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry B Posted 5 April , 2014 Share Posted 5 April , 2014 Agree Ordnance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muckandbullets Posted 6 April , 2014 Share Posted 6 April , 2014 Army Ordnance Corps I think TT Yes definitely Army Ordnance Corps. Agree Ordnance. Thanks very much Chaps will have a look at The Long Trail, but I've got a feeling I may ask another question later. Out of interest this AOC. chaps Father was in The Light Dragoons and survived The Charge of The Light Brigade in one piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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