WWI Hat Badge Northumberland Reg.

[atom12]

Yes, the medal[/color] index cards should tell you the medals he was awarded and often the theatres of war, and you have it there at your fingertips at the click of a button on the link I sent you.

Old Rowley, have you not got a Pompadour's (Essex) badge to post meantime! 

[old rowley]

[old rowley]

bit big but as its the first one that I have posted (picture that is) I'm suprised that it got here 

old rowley

[atom12]

Well Done on the badge post!

There will be no stopping you now, lol. 

[scrimnet]

being an Essex Calf I have always been interested in my old county regiment Atom. I am not sure if the men of the RDC used their former regiment cap badge or not when serving in that unit, if that is the case then I would have thought that he would have been wearing the Northumberlands badge. When the picture is lightened there also appears to be an arm of service strip on his upper arm.

old rowley

Don't think it would be an AOS stripe....They were found on WW2 uniforms bu not WW1...

Could be part of a brigade/regimental flash which came very much to the fore in WW1

The badge does look like an Essex to a degree, but the hat may have slipped and smudged it during exposure...

The RDC cap badge was just a royal cypher, and the pic is more of an enlistment one...witness the belt...

[old rowley]

thanks for correcting me scrimm' on the stripe I have only seen a few on ww1 pictures and got the titles mixed up from the reference book that I was using earlier (note to ones self........make sure that you are looking at the correct page at the time before answering  ).

old rowley

[atom12]

Scrim

Great in theory, but what's this hat slipping bit during exposure all about to the lay person!!!

Is it an Essex badge or not? 

[SingNic]

Hi Great Discussion,

however, as implied in my last email, thing were not clear as to who was who. So with further comparing and using what we knew were accurate here a couple more photos of Arthur.

Also found his records on Ancestry so I can see he spent only a few months in France and a year in Dublin.

The Badge seems to be the Essex badge as far as I can tell. The reason I started out with Northumberland Fus. was that was what was given in The Beccels Men in WWI a book which I have transcribed and put on the foxearth website.

In the photo with two soldiers the younger one his brother Albert was said to be in the Northampton Reg. The cap badge is consistant with that. Cannot find Albert's record on Ancestry.

Thanks for the help,
Nic

[atom12]

Great photos Nic  and I am sure that Scrimnet can fill you in on the Northampton regiment in the war.

Did Albert survive the war, do you know?