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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: melandjamie on Saturday 04 June 11 11:47 BST (UK)
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yet again just a copy and we have no idea who or when this was taken. does anyone have any ideas on the uniform?
thanks you all again
Melissa
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looks italian to me
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thank but i'm not sure, the family is Australian with Irish heritage don't know of any Italian but you never know :)
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He is wearing the British 1903 pattern Bandolier equipment, and what looks suspiciously like Beds and Herts collar dogs...
I suspect 1st Bn Bedfordshire Rifle Volunteers
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Is that a bayonet on his left side Scrimnet?
Is there any info on the back Melissa? photographer's name etc.
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just for interest
sylvia
http://www.nzmr.org/kit.htm
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Underneath his uniform he's wearing a starch collar which puts this early 1900's.Also agree with Scrimnet re. Regt.
jim
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Is that a bayonet on his left side Scrimnet?
Is there any info on the back Melissa? photographer's name etc.
yes it is...But cant make out which one!
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just for interest
sylvia
http://www.nzmr.org/kit.htm
Indeed, but as they are mounted, and this chap has his puttees wound infantry style (bottom to top...the ones in the link top to bottom) this one is Inf
Also his uniform is in the manner of a Volunteer ;D
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Is that a bayonet on his left side Scrimnet?
Is there any info on the back Melissa? photographer's name etc.
unfortunatley all i have is a copy so there is nothing written on the back, i'll try and see which relitive has the original and see whats on the back
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thank you so much everyone you may have just solved a mystery :)
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not sure if this is the place to ask but does anyone know if there is a site you can check by name for service history for this regiment? I'm hoping this chaps name is Samuel Hemphill he would have been 17 in 1903 and this guy looks about that age. He was born here in Australia but his parents are from Ireland and his dad went back in the late 1800's. I've lost all track of Samuel and can't find any records of him here in Australia so i'm thinking this might be him.
Thanks in advance
Melissa
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What are his parents names?
jim
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his parents names were Jane and John Hemphill mothers maiden name was caldwell sometimes seen as Cromwell originally from Antrim but immigrated to Australia in 1878. there was 4 boys John born 1882 James born 1884 Samuel born 1886 and George born 1888. All the other boys i have found here in Australia but Samuel disappeared in 1897 when he was placed on a reformatory ship called the Sobraon. His parents divorced and his father supposedly moved back to Ireland so maybe he moved there to live with him
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also do you think that this boy is the same one in the other photo i have on here with the boy with the umbrella? i think they look alike enough to be related but not sure if they are the same person or not.
thanks for all your help and sorry to ask so many questions :)
Melissa
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The other one is at least 10 years earlier & maybe longer so I can't see how they can be brothers.
jim
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I think they are the same boy
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Defer to Jim's expertise. Related, then? Very similar ears, I thought
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Has one photo benn flipped (mirror image)?
The more prominent ear and short eyebrow have swapped sides. :-\
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Jim says that they can't be the same boy. I think in the lower photo the boy has two prominent ears, and you're right, Bearcat, in the upper photo the boy has one ear which sticks out more than the other.
But I still think there is a general similarity, and the ears - whether sticky out or not - have a similar shape on the two boys.
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Hi Melissa
They were the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment from December 1887 based in Bedford. The badge is a hart with both front legs in a ford. A better scan would show if it has one or two scrolls below. Two scrolls would indicate 4th VB based in Huntingdon.
The 1st VB were based in Hertford and the 2nd VB in Hemel Hempstead. Both these had badges with the hart with one foreleg raised. The Bedford Regiment was the county regiment of both Beds and Herts.
To be in the Volunteers you had to live locally as they attended every week. So knowing where he was living should confirm which VB he was in.
Ken
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Thank Km but unfortunatley i don't know who this is let alone were they lived lol. I'm trying to get the original photo so hopefully hat will shed some more light on the subject
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Hello again ;D
well this just gets stranger and stranger.
I've got a hold of the original photo and on the back is written
George Washington Lincoln Hemphill. He was born in Sydney Australia 4/7/1888 and died in Australia 1948 and as far as i can tell he never left Australia but here he is posing in an Irish uniform??? The family originated from Ireland and i'm pretty sure his father moved back tere when they got divorced.
Now i'm totally confused any suggestions?
Thanks ;D
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Dont forget the attribution on the back of the photo may be wrong. Photographs of friends and relations were distributed widely, so this might be a photograph of someone else entirely, and a later person has guessed who it is.
Not helpful, I know, but possible to explain the mystery.
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Is there anything else on the back re. photographer or is it completely plain.
jim