Ianpugh Posted 10 February , 2021 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2021 Alwine on the right looking at the photo. Alwine on the very left looking at the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianpugh Posted 10 February , 2021 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2021 Not sure if this is the Wallasey Hospital but I think that it is. Alwine on the very left looking at the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianpugh Posted 10 February , 2021 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2021 Not sure if this is the Wallasey Hospital but I think that it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 10 February , 2021 Share Posted 10 February , 2021 30 minutes ago, Ianpugh said: Alwine on the right looking at the photo. Alwine on the very left looking at the photo. I love this one, the soldier on the left standing appears to have pulled a nurses spare shift partially over his head for a lark so that the Red Cross sits on his chest. I think that’s why the standing nurse on the left is looking so amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianpugh Posted 10 February , 2021 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2021 Allan1892 I am very sorry I did not thank you for all the research that you did on Gunner 41747 John Whitton this definitely sounds like the writer in the autograph book. I really appreciate all the interest that you and the rest of the guys have shown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianpugh Posted 10 February , 2021 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2021 Would anyone know why the words South Africa would be reflected on the badge/medal in this drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 10 February , 2021 Share Posted 10 February , 2021 (edited) It’s because that unit sent a detachment of men to fight in the 2nd Anglo/Boer War. Like all volunteer units that provided formed bodies the regiment applied for and was granted South Africa and dates shown as a battle honour. Rifle regiments do not carry regimental colours and so in accordance with established tradition the newly awarded battle honour was applied to the unit’s cap badge design when the London Regiment units were formed as a discrete, consolidated body in 1908. Edited 10 February , 2021 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRC Posted 10 February , 2021 Share Posted 10 February , 2021 There are surviving service records for Rifleman 473938 (ex 7700 & 6090) Percy William Merritt, London Regiment showing him in hospital at Liverpool from October 1916. Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 10 February , 2021 Share Posted 10 February , 2021 6 minutes ago, PRC said: There are surviving service records for Rifleman 473938 (ex 7700 & 6090) Percy William Merritt, London Regiment showing him in hospital at Liverpool from October 1916. Cheers, Peter Brilliant Peter, seems like that’s the man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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