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Title: help with regiment please
Post by: purdy on Tuesday 05 October 10 21:03 BST (UK)
Could some one give me info on which regiment this uniform could be please
Thanks Purdy
Title: Re: help with regiment please
Post by: km1971 on Wednesday 06 October 10 07:00 BST (UK)
Looks like the Border Regiment in a 1915 pattern tunic.

Ken
Title: Re: help with regiment please
Post by: scrimnet on Wednesday 06 October 10 15:08 BST (UK)
Quote from: km1971 on Wednesday 06 October 10 07:00 BST (UK)
Looks like the Border Regiment in a 1915 pattern tunic.

Ken

Spot on...

And early 1916
Title: Re: help with regiment please
Post by: purdy on Wednesday 06 October 10 20:01 BST (UK)
thanks to you both this photo was taken in birmingham would some one from there be in that regiment?
thanks Purdy
Title: Re: help with regiment please
Post by: mmm45 on Wednesday 06 October 10 22:34 BST (UK)
Do you have a name for the lad in the photo?

Ady
Title: Re: help with regiment please
Post by: purdy on Thursday 07 October 10 14:45 BST (UK)
dont have a name think it may be Coombs or Evans as it was taken in Birmingham
thanks Purdy