Cap badges

[Clive Temple]

Hello pals, can anyone ID the two cap badges shown here? Photo taken in Filey Yorkshire, suggestions are that one is the Hunts Cyclists who were stationed there, but I'm not so sure.

 

Thanks.

[Andrew Upton]

2 minutes ago, Clive Temple said:

Hello pals, can anyone ID the two cap badges shown here? Photo taken in Filey Yorkshire, suggestions are that one is the Hunts Cyclists who were stationed there, but I'm not so sure.

The big badge is the Norfolk Regiment. The smaller one is a Light Infantry Regiment, most likely the Durham Light Infantry based on where the photo was taken:

 

[Clive Temple]

Bless you.

[FROGSMILE]

2 hours ago, Clive Temple said:

Hello pals, can anyone ID the two cap badges shown here? Photo taken in Filey Yorkshire, suggestions are that one is the Hunts Cyclists who were stationed there, but I'm not so sure.

 

Thanks.

You are correct that there was a cyclist connection.  The 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment was formed in October 1914 at Bridlington where it remained until 1917 whence it moved to Filey and Hunmanby.  In 1918 it returned to Bridlington.  The unit was second line and made up from men who had not agreed to overseas service along with a leavening of older men and those with various ailments that made them unfit for overseas, but acceptable for home defence.  As well as the latter role they also fulfilled the requirement initially of training drafts of reinforcements for their first line unit, the 1/6th.

“When the Territorial Force (TF) was created in 1908, new cyclist units had been formed in many of the counties along the English Channel, from Cornwall to Norfolk. These new bicycle-equipped units were intended to become mobile coastal defence troops when mobilised, as the TF were not at first required to serve overseas.  The 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion was formed as the second line duplicate on 31 October 1914 in Bridlington, East Yorkshire and placed under Northern Command. On 18 May 1916, a large draft of men transferred to the 2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, which had been serving with some distinction on the Western Front.  Harry Walter Coxford wrote a book while serving in the battalion entitled "A Half Crown Holy Boy"– The story of the 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion and the letters of one young soldier serving in WW1.”

Edited 15 January by FROGSMILE

[PRC]

7 hours ago, FROGSMILE said:

On 18 May 1916, a large draft of men transferred to the 2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, which had been serving with some distinction on the Western Front.

The 2/6th Gloucesters would go to France after the arrivals of the Norfolks. Unfortunately the first major action they and their division were involved in was the disasterous diversionary attack at Fromelles on the 19th-20th July 1916, alongside the Australian 5th Division, comprised in part of Gallipoli veterans and itself newly arrived in France.

Sadly the British 61st (2nd South Midlands) Division came in for an undue amount of criticism for the failure, and it took over two years to shake off the label "Sixty-worst". I guess that could be called "some distinction" but not in the way most would read it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_at_Fromelles

@Clive Temple

Are there any clues on the back as to when this image might have been taken?

Cheers,
Peter