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Title: Help to identify uniform
Post by: radnor1 on Sunday 27 August 23 18:48 BST (UK)
Please can somone help to identify this uniform?  The photo was found in my aunts belongings after her death in mid wales.  I am not sure if it is of a family member.
Thanks
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: alan o on Sunday 27 August 23 18:55 BST (UK)
He is a Royal Welsh Fusilier.  WW1 era.
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: radnor1 on Sunday 27 August 23 19:00 BST (UK)
Many thanks
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: LimerickLad on Thursday 31 August 23 21:53 BST (UK)
I suppose your noticed the name on the back of the postcard, Gordon Owen Gla?  Limerick Ireland.

The Welch fusiliers were in Limerick in the New Barracks from 1917 to 1921 2nd Battalion or 3rd  Battalion, depending on the year.  There are photos of them parading to St Mary's cathedral.  There are some war graves for members of the regiment in Limerick.
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Friday 01 September 23 08:29 BST (UK)

New Barracks, Limerick
(MapGenie 25 Inch [1897-1913] in Basemap Gallery)

https://arcg.is/11ijT0


Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: radnor1 on Friday 01 September 23 14:58 BST (UK)
Thankyou Limericklad.

Gordon Owens was my grandfather (born 1903).  I was always told that he wasn't in WW1 so assumed this was not a photo of him, but perhaps I have been mis informed.  I will look into this further.

Radnor1
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: alan o on Friday 01 September 23 16:53 BST (UK)
If he was born in 1903 then he would have been underage until 1921 so he is unlikely to have served during the war.  By 1918 he was only 15 and whilst underage enlistment was not uncommon at the start of the war by 1918 they had clamped down on it.
Title: Re: Help to identify uniform
Post by: SMJ on Friday 01 September 23 18:17 BST (UK)
But old enough to have been involved in the later stages and aftermath of the Irish War of Independence. Elements of the RWF remained until Dec 1922.