TomWW1 Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March 2 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said: Tom you’ve posted this previously and not that long ago when posting your portrait of Herbert Ford. Sorry, I forgot i already had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March 9 hours ago, gunnerwalker said: 2/6th Manchesters at Wivenhoe Park Camp, near Colchester, spring or summer 1916. A rather large sized bombers badge on the man sitting far left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March (edited) 3 hours ago, GWF1967 said: A rather large sized bombers badge on the man sitting far left. Yes it is. Some units seem to have arranged their own specialist weapons proficiency badge’s, including two that I recall used brass types produced by using cap badge style dies. Edited 27 March by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poona guard Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March On 25/03/2024 at 09:18, GWF1967 said: I did have the same thoughts and was digging through the forum for information and examples to compare. Thanks for the great photo which I will use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March 37 minutes ago, poona guard said: Thanks for the great photo which I will use. You’re welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poona guard Posted 27 March Share Posted 27 March Thanks. I hope you come across more. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March Royal Sussex - Cup winning shooting team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 12 minutes ago, GWF1967 said: Royal Sussex - Cup winning shooting team. What a super photo. Lots of good conduct badges, and the gymnasium sergeant is built like a brick toilet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 36 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said: What a super photo. Lots of good conduct badges, and the gymnasium sergeant is built like a brick toilet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March There's a couple of medal ribbons on display too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 3rd East Surrey Regiment - Bayonet fighting squad. Three well stuffed "German's" in the back left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 7 minutes ago, Gardenerbill said: There's a couple of medal ribbons on display too. Yes, any ideas? I think they are both the same ribbon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 21st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. 34th Division. ( Joined on 3rd June 1918. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNCVR Posted 28 March Share Posted 28 March 23 minutes ago, GWF1967 said: Yes, any ideas? I think they are both the same ribbon. Geo V Coronation or Durbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March On 23/03/2024 at 21:04, FROGSMILE said: I think that’s very likely Dai, I recall visiting Grove Park and Sydenham with my parents. The main ASC building there was the red brick Greenwich Workhouse (later hospital) built not all that long before the outbreak of WW1 if I remember rightly. See (incl some interesting links at bottom of the page there): http://lewishamfww.wikidot.com/grove-park-in-the-first-world-war I’m curious as to what local park would have been large enough to take all the vehicles shown in the photo. Woolwich and Eltham common seems a possibility. It became a massive military encampment and parking area during WW1 flanked as it was by the RMA, RA Barracks complex and the Royal Herbert Hospital. Plumstead common seems another possibility. Yes indeed, I gather parts of the building are still in use by the local NHS Trust and/or social services. As the lower map shows, the whole complex was by and large surrounded by fields in those days, as this rather nice aerial shot form 1921 shows: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW006254 There are images online of ASC workshops full of roads lined with lorries, so I guess the postcard image of a lorry park in question could have been taken anywhere in the Grove Park vicinty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March 54 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: Yes indeed, I gather parts of the building are still in use by the local NHS Trust and/or social services. As the lower map shows, the whole complex was by and large surrounded by fields in those days, as this rather nice aerial shot form 1921 shows: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW006254 There are images online of ASC workshops full of roads lined with lorries, so I guess the postcard image of a lorry park in question could have been taken anywhere in the Grove Park vicinty. Thanks Dai, Doesn’t it just exemplify how much urban sprawl there’s been around London’s original suburbs since then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March 13 hours ago, RNCVR said: Geo V Coronation or Durbar. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March D. Coy. 13th. R.W.F. "From Pte. A.J. Rowlands. 13th R.W.F. June 19th. 1915." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March Royal Welsh Fusiliers group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March Royal Wesh Fusilier. J. Maclardy. Photographer. Oswestry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March Royal Welsh Fusiliers " To Florie From Harry With Best Love. xxxxx" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March (edited) 42 minutes ago, GWF1967 said: Royal Welsh Fusiliers group. Smart as a carrot. As per usual. Winter billet perhaps. Edited 29 March by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March 2 hours ago, FROGSMILE said: Thanks Dai, Doesn’t it just exemplify how much urban sprawl there’s been around London’s original suburbs since then! Absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poona guard Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March Are my eyes deceiving me or are the 1st Sussex using pre-war equipment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 29 March Share Posted 29 March 1 hour ago, GWF1967 said: Royal Wesh Fusilier. J. Maclardy. Photographer. Oswestry. Kitchener man by the look of him. Early war emergency simplified jacket, 1905 cap and 1914 leather equipment. Likely to be his portrait taken for loved ones before embarkation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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