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8 hours ago, TullochArd said:

Grand Shaft Barracks at Dover .......... and about twenty miles from American Studio at Margate where the second OP photo was taken.

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Yes, I was surprised to see just how many East Surrey Regiment battalions there were in and around the same stamping ground in Kent, as mentioned earlier.

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Wow thank you so so much everyone, everyones knowledge is amazing I really do appreciate everyones help. 

Great to finally work out what regiment it was.

 

Strange he joined east Surrey when his younger brothers signed up for middlesex together.

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42 minutes ago, pjdgm said:

Strange he joined east Surrey when his younger brothers signed up for middlesex together.

3 East Surrey was Reserve/Home Defence unit and the Labour Corps (supposedly) was deemed not to be an active fighting unit.  Lower enlistment criteria were permitted. As such, there could be an age or medical fitness reason to be uncovered as to why he did not end up in a local front line Middlesex Battalion like his younger brothers.

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33 minutes ago, TullochArd said:

3 East Surrey was Reserve/Home Defence unit and the Labour Corps (supposedly) was deemed not to be an active fighting unit.  Lower enlistment criteria were permitted. As such, there could be an age or medical fitness reason to be uncovered as to why he did not end up in a local front line Middlesex Battalion like his younger brothers.

He’s wearing TF shoulder titles in both photos and yet wears no Imperial Service tablet, so there’s a good chance that he was home service category until the military service act of 1916.  At that point he’d presumably have been sent to a reserve battalion and selected for suitable employment and deployment.  Perhaps initially an infantry Labour company, but whatever, somehow his grading clearly led him to the Labour Corps.

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