robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Middlesex Regt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Shropshire L.I. Senior NCO group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Royal West Kent Cyclist Btn. Pte. A.W. Kirvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Northamptonshire Regt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Sherwood Foresters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Sherwood Forester (N & D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Essex Regt. 7th Btn Territorial Group (Note crossed bayonets front middle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 My profound apologies folks - I blamed the battalion when it was only one man. I am sorry and I should have known better than to spit the dummy at my age. You had me going then ......... well done, and a fabulous collection of photos, I am awe-struck/ stricken [delete where not applicable] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 TC and Rob, exellent photo's, thanks for showing. JG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 December , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 December , 2010 As the proposer for this thread...a plea. Lets stop the arguement regardless of feelings. A bit of dignity please and carry on posting some postcards. I will add a few more of my own to keep this going. Thanks to all contributors so far and I really hope the Canadians are back (I need to check) cos the battle patch images were superb and were part of my reason for starting this thread, to see uniform details that to buy an original ( if available) would cost a fortune!!!and also to remember men and put faces to names or just to see images of the soldiers. Regards TT PS kind comment re Pals badge thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 December , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Here is a group of RFA signallers. Does the presence of an airman tell us anything re unit or role...or just jumped into photo for fun?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 December , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 December , 2010 4th Oxs and Bucks. Taken Aug 1917. You can see coloured cloth on epaulettes. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 I totally agree TT, as you see myself, TC, Rob and yourself have started putting this thread back to its exellent self, but it was only one person trying to distrupt everything and everyone knows who he was. Anyway here is Sgt. W.C.Allen 8th N/D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFayers Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Here is a group of RFA signallers. Does the presence of an airman tell us anything re unit or role...or just jumped into photo for fun?? Quite simply the airman will have been attached to the battery signal section, most probably as a wireless operator. This was certainly the case for RGA batteries later in the war; I'm not sure when the practice started though (the main idea behind it being the liaison with wireless-transmitting observation aircraft). cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 December , 2010 Author Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Thanks Steve. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 240500 Pte.William Cotterill M.M. 5th N/D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 240284 L/Corp. John Cooper D.C.M. 5th N/D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 2328 Sgt.John Ware 5th N/D. dow 7th March 1915. He was the first casualty the 5th Battn suffered, killed by an accidental discharge from one of his own men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 200582 Richard Parker Hardy England 5th N/D. M.I.D. M.S.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Stewart Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Does seem odd, I am wondering if it is a brass universal grenade as sometimes worn by stokes mortar men. It doesn't look like a crown. Or a battalion 'bomber' as I have seen on the rare occassion one with the flames painted red. Somewhere among my ACI's I have reference to 'grenadiers'(bombers) and 'rifle grenadiers' the latter wore crossed rifles with the plain brass bomb above. However there was some objection to the title 'grenadier' from the Grenadier Guards regarding the use of this specialist title and so 'battalion bomber' was used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Here we have No 7 OCB based at Moore Park Camp County Cork. What is unusual is that the Training NCO's also wear the VII/CB cap badge John, I refer to post #855. Is it a trick of the eye that seems to show this serjeant wearing rank badges of different patterns? Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 201082 Cpl. Francis William Melbourne 'F' coy 5th N/D kia 1.7.1916 age 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 2nd Duke of Wellingtons 4th Div Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Just make out Signal Service below his epoulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 11 December , 2010 Share Posted 11 December , 2010 Unknown, battle patch to right sleeve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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