Please Help Identify this Uniform

[LynnsBookshelf]

Hi!

I found this picture in my grandmother's photos. I don't know if he is a relative, or if he is her fiancee who was killed in WWI.

Any info would be appreciated. You clues might help me figure out who he was.

Lynn McGoldrick Franger

[old rowley]

Hi Lynne and welcome to rootschat and the armed forces board. Your photograph shows a soldier who was serving as a Driver/Private with the Royal Artillery. Have you a name for him and also is there anything to say who the photographer was, either on the bottom of the photograph at the front or on its reverse.

old rowley

[atom12]

Agree with Old Rowley, your soldier is a Driver in the Royal Artillery. 

It is a good photo of a 'mounted' soldier with his riding crop and spurs. 

[LynnsBookshelf]

Thank You for the info. This was an unused postcard, so there are no other identifying marks.

I think he was probably a relative, and not my grandmother's fiancee, who I believe was in the Medical Corps. His name was Valentine Flood, and he is buried in Bagdad, Iraq. I dont know if Valentine was from Ireland or England, as Grandma worked for a time in England. I don't know much more about Valentine Flood. Any tips on getting more info on him?

Lynn

[old rowley]

you can download an image of the medal card for Valentine from the national archives medal card index for a cost of £3.50. although the medal card will not give you any personal details about Valentine it may add to your knowledge about him.

old rowley

[ShaunJ]

CWGC confirms that the V Flood buried in Baghdad was RAMC:

Name: FLOOD
Initials: V
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit Text: 32nd Field Amb.
Date of Death: 21/12/1916
Service No: 46780
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Angora Mem. 65.
Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633433

[ShaunJ]

From Soldiers Died in the Great War

FLOOD, Valentine,  Royal Army Medical Corps 
 
Birthplace - Howlit, Dublin 
 
Enlisted in Waterford  
 

Rank PRIVATE 
 
Number 46780 
 
Died 21 December 1916 
 
 
Theatre of war - Gallipoli 
 

[LynnsBookshelf]

Great Info! 

I think Howlit could be a transcription error, and should be Howth, Dublin. I Googled 'Howlit Dublin' and got references to Valentine Flood, so the error must have been in the original transcription.

My Grandmother was from Howth, Dublin.

Lynn

[howdee]

Hi

You can now download Medal Index Cards (MIC) for free from Ancestry, if you are a member or have access somehow.

I'm not a member or would offer to do it. Our Library Service has a county wide subscription, so I got my grandfather's that way.

I'm sure someone will offer to download for you.

Good Luck

Howard