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Title: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: valiant on Friday 27 February 09 13:55 GMT (UK)
Hi,
  Can anyone please help to identify the three Regiments of my Great uncles.
                             Thanks
                              Dave
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: km1971 on Friday 27 February 09 15:28 GMT (UK)
Hi Dave

Top left standing is Leicestershire Regiment. Top right - Prince of Wales' feathers over the knot of Staffordshire - is the POWs (North Staffordshire Regiment). No idea of the man seated - more pixels are needed of cap badge, collar badge and the belt buckle.

Ken
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: valiant on Friday 27 February 09 16:41 GMT (UK)
Thanks Ken,
     How do i get more pixels for the third man??
                    Dave
   
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: km1971 on Friday 27 February 09 17:55 GMT (UK)
     How do i get more pixels for the third man??
                    

You need the original photograph and scan it at it's highest resolution setting. If your scanner has pre-scan just scan the seated man. If not use a program such as PAINT to cut and paste just a small area of the resulting picture.

Ken
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: scrimnet on Friday 27 February 09 19:16 GMT (UK)
Third chap is St John Ambulance.... ;)
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: scrimnet on Friday 27 February 09 19:18 GMT (UK)
Pic was taken early to mid 1916, and the Leicester chap is a Kitchener New Army chap... :)
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: valiant on Saturday 28 February 09 08:34 GMT (UK)
Thanks Scrimnet & Ken,
      Ken couldn't improve photo as it was already a copy.
what's the difference with the new army would i still be able to find his army records if they survived?
                         Thanks again Lads
                            Dave
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: scrimnet on Saturday 28 February 09 09:33 GMT (UK)
Don't worry about improving this one as the Regts are quite patent... ;) 8)

When I say "New Army" I mean that he wasn't one of the "Old Contemptibles" and was a volunteer under Kicheners plan to form a "Citizen Army" ("Britons! Needs You!" etc) to back fill the already growing losses in what was basically a very small "colonial police force"

What records that remain after he German bombing of them in 1940, are available via Kew or Anpestry.

A medal card would be the best place to start, as you have (I presume!) names already, and now you have a Regt to narrow them down.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/research.asp#ww1

The SJA chap will be more difficult, as although some went abroad, a large number did not, so probably nil medals for him...But worth a look, just in case...
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: valiant on Saturday 28 February 09 09:37 GMT (UK)
Thanks again !! Scrimnet
Title: Re: Help needed to identify Regiments
Post by: scrimnet on Saturday 28 February 09 12:44 GMT (UK)
No probs...it's what we are here for! ;) ;D