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This rather handsome young man is a relative of one of my work colleagues.  She is not sure what branch of the army he was in so brought the photograph to work to see if I knew.

I think he's Army Service Corps and judging from the spurs, riding breeches, riding crop and bandolier I suspect he had something to do with horses.   However, I'm puzzled by the arm bands and the insignia on his left arm.  Does anyone have any idea what they signify?

Thanks for all the replies - it's still as clear as mud!

I think my best bet would be to not send family photographs to anyone who is not "immediate" family and then request that they not be posted on any website unless they say that my husband  gave them permission to use our family snaps, which is what most of these photographs are. 

A couple of years ago I was contacted by a lady who had links to my husband's great great grandfather.  Being the kind soul that I am, I e-mailed her some family photographs.  She put these on her public tree on Ancestry (my own tree on there is private so no-one can see the rest of the family photographs unless I invite them to).  I didn't have a problem with this until recently when I discovered that three other people had used the photographs I sent to the original lady.

None of the people who have nicked the photographs have any immediate connection to my husband's family (in fact in some cases I can't find any links at all!) so I contacted them asking very politely if they would mind removing the photographs on the grounds that they were ours and we hadn't given permission for them to be used, neither had the lady who put them on her public tree.  Two of the three had also put a link to a family story on their trees without the permission of the author.

One member hasn't seen fit to respond to my requests that they remove the photographs, one removed them immediately and sent me a very nice message apologising and the third has questioned my right to copyright of them, although he has removed them from his tree.

Personally, I would never use images from someone else's tree without contacting them and asking permission first. 

Has anyone else had any experience of this kind of thing and what did they do about it?

I'm so glad that everyone is enjoying the Sutcliffe Gallery site.  There are some fantastic photographs on there and as Jen said, much of Whitby still looks the same as it did back then, which is rather nice.   However, there are parts, particularly at the bottom end of Church Street where the old houses were demolished to make room for a car park, which I find quite sad.