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Title: What is this Uniform
Post by: AussieKate on Sunday 18 July 10 09:05 BST (UK)
i was wondering if anybody can tell me what uniform this is
thanks

Kate
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: harrywrag on Sunday 18 July 10 15:15 BST (UK)
could it be telegram boy
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: celia on Sunday 18 July 10 15:51 BST (UK)
I have seen that uniform before somewhere on the telly maybe :-\ Do you know the approximate year of the photo?
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: celia on Sunday 18 July 10 16:16 BST (UK)
I was going to suggest He was a Hotel Bell Boy,but i have just noticed he is holding some kind of leather whip.With what looks like a silver ring on the bottom :-\ a bandsman maybe they wear white gloves?
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: Hollander on Sunday 18 July 10 16:21 BST (UK)
Late 19th/early 20th century Fusilier 'walking 'out' uniform?
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: skb on Sunday 18 July 10 18:57 BST (UK)
Boys' Brigade?
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: AussieKate on Monday 19 July 10 00:20 BST (UK)
The man in the uniform was born in 1882 and i think that he would be about 18 in the pic, he was in the Royal Horse Artillery in WW1, although he did enlist in 1900, i know that he was in India at some time.

Kate
Title: Re: What is this Uniform
Post by: ainslie on Monday 19 July 10 09:49 BST (UK)
The collar badges look like an early version of the RA 'grenade'.