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Title: cap badge identification please
Post by: bolsoverboy on Monday 05 November 12 22:03 GMT (UK)

Please can I have some help identifying this soldiers cap badge. I found him in a family album and don't know who he is.

Thanks

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: bolsoverboy on Monday 05 November 12 22:56 GMT (UK)

Here is a close up of the badge in a bit higher resolution.

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: Salty on Monday 05 November 12 23:15 GMT (UK)

Immediate thought is the Royal Engineers.

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: mmm45 on Tuesday 06 November 12 00:38 GMT (UK)

I agree with Salty looking at the enhanced scan...can you make out the shoulder title on an enhanced scan is it RE?

Ady

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: bolsoverboy on Tuesday 06 November 12 10:52 GMT (UK)

Thank you Salty and Ady. Yes, looking at the shoulder title on the original photo with a magnifying glass, it looks like RE. Well spotted. Now I need to find out if I have got any Royal Engineers in the family.

The photo was taken at a studio in Newark, but the family is from Leicester. Does anyone know if any of the Royal Engineers were based in Newark in WW1?

Thanks again!

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: mmm45 on Tuesday 06 November 12 16:24 GMT (UK)

Yes there was a RE depot at Newark during WW 1

Ady

Title: Re: cap badge identification please
Post by: bolsoverboy on Tuesday 06 November 12 16:25 GMT (UK)

Brilliant. Thanks Ady.