Fusilier cap badges

[warbuff1]

Can anyone tell me what regiment soldiers 1st left and 2nd right belong to. Been told possibly Royal Welsh Fusilers. I know others to be Lancashire fusiliers ( Or at least i hope so)

Wayne

[neil1821]

Hi,

I think we really need to see the caps/cap badges A LOT larger to have any chance of saying anything.

Can you rescan and just concentrate on one of the caps?

It's obviously a grenade-type badge but there are several possibles:

Grenadier Guards

Northumberland Fus.

Royal Fus.

Royal Scots Fus.

Royal Welsh Fus.

Royal Inniskilling Fus.

1st - 4th London Regt

The others I agree are Lancs Fusiliers.

[warbuff1]

ok will try see what i can do Neil

wayne

[warbuff1]

ok can manage to zoom in on pics on photoshop etc but cant save when zoomed in? Any ideas how i do this?

Wayne

[warbuff1]

Sorry Mods just realised i posted this in wrong section pls move if so required

[Steven Broomfield]

The seated chap and the other two with similar-shaped badges look like Lancashire Fusiliers to me: the others may well be Royal Welsh Fusiliers, or possibly Northumberland. NOT Royal Fusiliers (badge shape is wrong). Not R Irish Fusiliers, either. Possibly R Munster Fus, but nor R Dublin Fus (scroll under grenade).

[warbuff1]

Cheers Steve, def Lancs on the others as this would fit being from Rochdale but strange the other 2. Would the Northumberland be the Tyneside Irish or are they another Bn? Just possible Irish connection maybe as my Great Grandfathers parents were Irish descent and i know family were Catholics

Wayne

[warbuff1]

Did the RWF wear a R.W.F shoulder title?

Wayne

[warbuff1]

Think the 2nd right in first photo is the guy in centre of this photo and on close inspection does appear to read RWF on shoulder title. ( Unless my eye playin tricks and wishing it does)

[Tyneside Chinaman]

If they are TI NF I will pack in doing any more research, they are so obviousley RWF that it is beyond belief.

The only positive way to identify TI NF is to get a photo from the family. There are so few battle Patch and shoulder title photos that it is almost impossible to find one. You will 90% of the time be looking at a NF photo.

Sorry for being narcky as my daughter says, but please look at the shape of the flame.

Only three, Munsters, Skins and NF have the same shaped flame. The Munsters have a siver Tiger on their badge which stands out. The general confusion is between Skins and NF and we havn't even mentioned RDF, RIF and RSF.

If you had a DLI connection I would have said yes because 1GB DLI became 1GB RMF but no NF connection.

The photo shows three LF and two RWF.

regards

TI Chinaman

[Steven Broomfield]

The general confusion is between Skins and NF and we havn't even mentioned RDF, RIF and RSF.

The photo shows three LF and two RWF.

regards

TI Chinaman

Well, I didn't mention the RSF but I did mention (and discount) the RIF and RDF.

[JulianB]

I don't think there's any doubt; LF and RWF - and as noted earlier, Kimnel makes it more certain.

BUT do you have any names to go on, then you could try to find a match in MIC.

[warbuff1]

Thanks to all you guys for help. No names as sadly no one scribbld on back of post card

Wayne

[FROGSMILE]

Did the RWF wear a R.W.F shoulder title?

Wayne

Yes they did, with the universal grenade above (and in the case of TF a number (indicating the battalion) and 'T' as well). There were 2 common OR versions, one with a closed top to the 'W' and one with an open top. The former was the most common.

[Ghost]

See if you can pick the faces out on these photo's which i stumbled acros while browsing.

http://www.rwfphotos.co.uk/page6.html. Pages of RWF photos.