Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 16th (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Newcastle Commercials)Alnwick April 1915 12 Platoon C Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphed Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 4692 L/Corp C.H.Fletcher 1/7th N/Derby ( Robin Hoods ) dow 7.7.1916. I think the sad letter says it all. Yes it does Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 5/1870 Private Hugh Charters D Company 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers POW 1915 4/2315 Private Richard Thomas Strong 1/4th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers. KiA 15/9/16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 65674 Private William Goodfellow 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers POW between 10/4/18 and 27/5/18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 5/6602 renumbered 241855 Private Robert Ophild, 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers, Enlisted 12/2/15 Discharged 16/7/18, Age 40, wounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 7/2015 renumbered 290341 Private Robert Hinson 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers KiA 21/4/1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 7/2231 Private George Dunlop entered France 21/4/15 with 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers renumbered 290283, posted to 1st Northumberland Fusiliers & KiA 29/3/18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 17/83 Private Thomas Bolland enl 17th NF Sept 1914 transferred before embarkation and posted to 18th NF. Transferred to Royal Defence Corps as 88852. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 On St George's Day 23 April 1916 all the Orderly Room sergeants of the NF battalions in France got together. Obvious are the four Tyneside Scottish and three of the four Pioneer Battalion ORS. None of the others are identified by name or battalion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 Signallers 16th Northumberland Fusiliers, Codford 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyneside Chinaman Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 Official Press photo of Northumberland Fusiliers in France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldstreampaul Posted 14 December , 2010 Share Posted 14 December , 2010 My apologies if this image is not Great War circa. Hoping for any information, I am thinking this could be Argyll and Sutherland, sorry it is not a named photograph. Again apologies if this is not of the correct era. Regards Paul I am now thinking Cameron Highlanders? Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Undoubtedly Coldstream Guards to my eyes and very typical in the way the SD caps are so smartly 'set up', even when in the field. My own gut feeeling was that they did at some point wear the white on scarlet cloth titles (as they do today) but it is good to see photographic evidence. The cap stars are distinctive too and with the white cap band you mentioned the whole image seems conclusive to me. I am wondering too what the cloth badge is immediately below the title, could it be a Coldstream rose? On the sergeant-major? In my ignorance I took it for a Div sign, but, yes ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Grumpy Yes a Bike Wheel see close up Thank you ...... a rare rare beast, unofficial, and I have only one other sighting, and that pre-war! Fantastico! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 hammer and pincers = fitter trades gun = full sergeant RA or above crown = staff sergeant [taken in conjunction with chevrons] An interesting photo. All such trades were taken into the REME in 1941. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 On the sergeant-major? In my ignorance I took it for a Div sign, but, yes ........ No, it appears under the title on right arm of all the men visible. At first I thought it was a roman numeral, then a rose, now I am not sure what it is at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 No, it appears under the title on right arm of all the men visible. At first I thought it was a roman numeral, then a rose, now I am not sure what it is at all. The CG numerals, according to IWM, were roman scarlet on drab. Ortho film should show scarlet as DARK in the middle of pale, so I doubt if numerals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Charles Houfton N/D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Gershom Whetton 1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Pte. 85820 William Wilmott Oldham 9th N/D kia 4.9.1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Pte. Overland N/D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john gregory Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 Unknown Sgt.6th N/D. showing the green diamond flash above his stripes. These where believed to be worn on the back but the photo shows different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Stewart Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 17/83 Private Thomas Bolland enl 17th NF Sept 1914 transferred before embarkation and posted to 18th NF. Transferred to Royal Defence Corps as 88852. Full name Thomas Babbington Bolland who worked at the N.E.R. Dock Engineers Dept, Hull prior to enlisting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Stewart Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 My apologies if this image is not Great War circa. Hoping for any information, I am thinking this could be Argyll and Sutherland, sorry it is not a named photograph. Again apologies if this is not of the correct era. Regards Paul I am now thinking Cameron Highlanders? Paul Need a good shot of the collar & sporran, badges, but my initial thought was Royal Scots from the collars, but blowing it up blurs them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Stewart Posted 15 December , 2010 Share Posted 15 December , 2010 I put this on the other day but it was'nt very good so have placed a better image on. Civil Service Rifles flash, any one seen a title like this one before ? plus it looks like the leather buttons. Not unusual among units pre-war. Have photo's of the 1st Volunteer Bn, Northumberland Fusiliers who have "1/V/BOMB/NF" woven in red on their first pattern SD jackets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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