can anyone help to identify this uniform/regiment please

[marion harper]

 

[Gardenerbill]

The cross on the upper left arm suggests RAMC. There also appears to be a badge above it, could be a division sign.

[Gardenerbill]

The division patch could be 38th (Welsh) Division.

 

[jay dubaya]

Orthographic film would have the red dragon appear almost black on a photo, another possible could be the 40th Division

 

[Gardenerbill]

I think you may have it there JD that image fits better.

[FROGSMILE]

He’s a RAMC Private, seemingly with the crossed flags of a signaller above the Red Cross roundel traditionally worn on both upper arms by RAMC other ranks.

Edited 3 December , 2018 by FROGSMILE

[Muerrisch]

If [and I stress if] he is a signaller, he is not the first RAMC such to grace the pages of the Forum. We can be sure that the crossed flags were worn by some RAMC men, although I am baffled by the need. There was no RAMC War Establishment for signallers as far as I can tell.

 

However, if the current man is wearing the flags, they are worn in the wrong place. The photo is too poor for me to be at all certain.

[FROGSMILE]

Yes I agree that a flags badge would be in the wrong place, but that’s certainly what I can see.  As we both know badges were not always well understood in an army that was growing at such a prodigious rate.

Edited 3 December , 2018 by FROGSMILE

[Gardenerbill]

So does that mean the 40th division patch is still a possibility or have we ruled that out?

[Muerrisch]

Not I.

[wainfleet]

It's far too big to be a 40th Div sign. I too see crossed flags here.

[Dragoon]

I'm defiantly going with RAMC wearing a signalers crossed flags badge.

 

Chris

 

 

 

[Gardenerbill]

So could he have been a signaller in say an infantry regiment, then transferred to RAMC?

 

@marion harper  do you have any possible names for the man?

[Muerrisch]

2 hours ago, Gardenerbill said:

So could he have been a signaller in say an infantry regiment, then transferred to RAMC?

 

@marion harper  do you have any possible names for the man?

 

Yes, although there is nothing that I have seen regarding regulations in those days to allow a skill/qualification gained in an old corps being transferred to a new corps. The essence of  most of these specialisations was currency ..... indeed some such as musketry and other skill-at-arms were re-tested annually. Signalling likewise, it was a skill-at-arms.

I am content to believe that the badge is crossed flags, that he has/had qualified, that he was transferred, and he is wearing the badge in the wrong place. A nice curiosity, unless someone can demonstrate that the RAMC had signallers.

[marion harper]

On 04/12/2018 at 12:21, Gardenerbill said:

So could he have been a signaller in say an infantry regiment, then transferred to RAMC?

 

@marion harper  do you have any possible names for the man?

sorry have been offline for a while. Yes he was Frank George Bibbs

[asanewt]

Seems to have shoulder title. Perhaps a magnifier on the original would reveal them.

[George Rayner]

88918 RAMC I think or FMP does!

 

Also photo in Ancestry Tree-Andrew glynn family tree-of 'him'?

 

George

Edited 16 February , 2019 by George Rayner