Help with regiment ID

[scrimnet]

OK...

I am going with Hampshire Yeomanry....

It's the shoulder title wot won it...

6th DG during that period would have just that....6DG... as a shoulder...Your cahp has a double one, one word over another...Ergo...Hampshire over Yeomanry...

[forester]

Hello all,

The 1/1st Hampshire Yeomanry were at Forest Row camp (a few miles north of Uckfield), off and on, between Oct 1914 and July 1915 as part of 1/1st South West Mounted Brigade.

Was the Uckfield photographer Arthur Windsor SPICE? I have several postcards by him, which, I think, were taken at one of the camps on Ashdown Forest. (Forest Row, Crowborough or Maresfield). Unfortunately, until I find out which regiments, I can't identify the camp.

Phil

[battiscombe]

relating to this message in the summer, the Hampshire Yeomanry photo was indeed by Arthur Windsor Spice so these may well be 1/1 Hampshire Yeo at Forest Row .. so that fits..
david

[forester]

Hello battiscombe,

I'd forgotten all about this thread.
Since my last post I have discovered that 2/1 Hampshie Yeomanry were at Maresfield Camp (just outside Uckfield) from 19th October 1915 to at least 29th February 1916 as part of 2/1 South West Mounted Brigade. Unfortunately the Home Service war diary at Kew ends here. Whether the HY were in the area pre-war, I don't know.

Any chance of you posting the full photo by A W Spice?
My postcards by him can be seen on this thread:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,253903.0.html

Regards,
Phil

[battiscombe]

I'll scan the whole thing - in the meantime here are the officers -- with a similar line in moustachios .

[battiscombe]

Herewith picture of Hants Yeomanry from Spicer studio (name embosed on lower right side of mounting card)

[forester]

Thanks battiscombe,

What an excellent picture.

If it was taken 1915 onwards, my first choice would be Maresfield Park Camp.

If you know any of the officer's names, one of my sources of information was a thread on the Great War Forum with a transcript of 1/1 Hants Yeomanry war diary.

Regards,
Phil