glryan Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Can anyone identify this uniform & cap-badge, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asanewt Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Looks very Grenadier Guards, but could be a Royal Fusiler. Seems to be a wound stripe on left sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Sergeant major, too. Turnups? Are the buttons leather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Owl Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 I think that he is an RSM judging by the crowns on his sleeves. He could be Grenadier Guards, but he could also be North'd Fusiliers, Inniskilling Fusiliers or Munster Fusiliers, the badges are all very similar, but the ball appears to have something on it rather than being plain as for the Grenadier Guards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wexflyer Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 I would agree with the other posters - a sergeant major in a Fusilier unit, and not Grenadier Guards. In addition to the regiments already mentioned, there were of course the Royal Fusiliers, a very large regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 14 September , 2012 Share Posted 14 September , 2012 The rank would actually be dependant on date - in most regiments, in 1914 the crown on the lower sleeve would denote a RSM, by 1915 this would be the RQMS or a CSM, and by 1918 it was only worn by the CSM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 14 September , 2012 Share Posted 14 September , 2012 Looks like a wound badge on his left sleeve. If so WOII. Joe Sweeeny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crunchy Posted 14 September , 2012 Share Posted 14 September , 2012 the ball appears to have something on it rather than being plain as for the Grenadier Guards. The ball of a Grenadier Guards warrant officer's badge had the monarch's cypher on it. Corporals and Privates had the plain ball. The flame, however, appears to be, as mentioned by Old Owl, Northumberland, Inniskilling or Royal Munster Fusiliers. Regards Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hastings Posted 14 September , 2012 Share Posted 14 September , 2012 How about Honourable Artillery Company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 28 September , 2012 Share Posted 28 September , 2012 My grandfather's cap badge, if an example assists: 26th Northumberland Fusiliers: Lt. George Van Wyck Laughton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findabetterole Posted 2 November , 2012 Share Posted 2 November , 2012 Gents, the cap badge is Munster Fusiliers. Seph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrough Posted 3 November , 2012 Share Posted 3 November , 2012 Gents, the cap badge is Munster Fusiliers. Seph I have to agree, it looks like the outline of a tiger on the badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 4 November , 2012 Share Posted 4 November , 2012 I have to agree, it looks like the outline of a tiger on the badge. Yes I agree. I think he is a Royal Munster Fusiliers (Regimental) Sergeant Major - I too can see the tiger. The reason I think that he is the top dog and not a CSM is because he has had his jacket altered, officer style, with scalloped chest pocket flaps and mitred cuffs (above which sit the wound stripe and large crown badge). CSMs were not entitled to a jacket modified in that way. There is an anomaly however, in that wound stripes were not authorised until 1916 and by that date the RSM should have been wearing a coat of arms badge. Perhaps badges of the correct pattern had not yet arrived in the unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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