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Offline purple frog

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Which uniform is this?
« on: Thursday 05 October 06 22:33 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone,
Can you help me identify this uniform and period. I am guessing it is WW2 but have no idea of the uniform. He is my gt aunt 's cousin and she is 92!
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Smith-London
Wrangham- st Geo east,London
Scotcher and Foot-Bethnal green
LeBreton and Pinel- Jersey, channel islands
Mason, Lane and Hunt- Bermondsey London
Finlay-Sidbury,Devon
Major-Suffolk
Wallin-Wroxton, oxfordshire
Gregory,Duffy,Glavin and Burne- Ireland

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Re: Which uniform is this?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 05 October 06 22:36 BST (UK) »
Hi,
 It is a Naval uniform and there are experts who will give you more info
 Peter
Battle - Blunham, Bedfordshire.
Baker - Kingsley, Headley, East Wellow, Tuxlith, Hampshire &  Croydon, Surrey.
Arnold - Holybourne, Hants.
Gates - Holybourne, Hants
Davies - Croydon & Hackney
Kearns - Co Tyrone, N. Ireland (also Cearns)
Magill - Co Donegal, Ireland
Whitmarsh - East Wellow, Hampshire

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Re: Which uniform is this?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 05 October 06 22:51 BST (UK) »
Can you blow up the sleeve badge more clearly. It looks like 25 but that does'nt make sense. It's a specialist badge. Admin. rather than fighting or sailing crew. It may be WWII or even after.

Roger
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Griffiths Mitcheltroy, Mon. 18th century

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Re: Which uniform is this?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 05 October 06 22:56 BST (UK) »
I don't think I can blow up sleeve badge but I thought it was OS
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Smith-London
Wrangham- st Geo east,London
Scotcher and Foot-Bethnal green
LeBreton and Pinel- Jersey, channel islands
Mason, Lane and Hunt- Bermondsey London
Finlay-Sidbury,Devon
Major-Suffolk
Wallin-Wroxton, oxfordshire
Gregory,Duffy,Glavin and Burne- Ireland

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Re: Which uniform is this?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 05 October 06 22:57 BST (UK) »
The cap badge looks as though it might be for a Petty Officer, the OS is for an Officer's Steward.
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: Which uniform is this?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 06 October 06 18:17 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Bill is correct, photo taken sometime during WW11, I would think.

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KENT-CANTERBURY & DEAL areas.  Brient-Hitchcock-Reynolds-Pittock;O'Neill-Ireland-Whitman-Harvey-Martin-Norris
ESSEX-DEDHAM- Hitchcock
HANTS-BASINGSTOKE, PRESTON CANDOVER & surrounding areas, Mills-Whitman-Marshall-Whitear-Hall-Patience-Burke-Bulpit-Wise-Marlow-Page - Pragnell.
SOMERSET-FROME area, Marshall. Dredge.
WILTSHIRE-HORNINGSHAM area-Marshall
ABERDEEN-Middleton-Milne-Cruickshank-Stevenson-Ogg
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