Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]

[Pete Keane]

I agree with Neil that the Sgt appears to be RAMC - if you look at the WW1 section of this link:

http://www.ams-museum.org.uk/historyRAMC.htm

you will see the same badge above the stripes.

If you are looking for a start point then a cook in the RAMC would be a reasonable start point, although it would still be worth looking at cook training at Aldershot if you get a dead end with the RAMC.

I'd still like Scrimnets advice on the metal epp. badges as they will help date the photo.

pete.

[forester]

Also on here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,405345.0.html

Phil

[Pete Keane]

The cookhouse/tent in the background looks the same as the one in the background of the 1913 photo, but taken a couple of years later.

Did the RAMC have a TA battalion?

pete

[Tabbitha]

Also on here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,405345.0.html

Phil

I cant beleive Ive been looking that long

[forester]

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun 

Pete,

The RAMC existed within the Territorial structure. No doubt Scrimnet knows the finer points (I don't).

Phil

[Tabbitha]

 only been looking on the NA site and I am lost already.

I cant actually read any records.just headings.

Ive never been able to navigate around that site , , must be cos Im blonde


*edit*  and who is Scrimnet ??

[neil1821]

*edit*  and who is Scrimnet ??

Our Armed Forces moderator, fount of knowledge on uniforms and all-round guru!!
 

[scrimnet]

Me!!!!

Oh blimey Neil...Setting me up for a fall!!

Most of the questions were answered on the last post in September 

The RAMC TA units were area / county wide; the 3 layer shoulder titles would have  "T" "RAMC" and then something like "East Anglian" or "West Riding" and the such like.

Date? Ummmm...betwixt 1908 and 1918. A ten yr window, but the Sgt has neither medal ribbons or any other uniform embellishments (that I can see!!). They are 1907 ptn tunics, so the above date is the best we can do pro tem!

[scrimnet]

Regiments Corps and units had their own cooks, some of whom were trained in one of the two cookery schools which existed in Aldershot and Poona in India. Trade pay was introduced in 1936, but equipment was poor and in many units meals were collected in bulk from the kitchen for consumption in the barracks rooms.  The Army Catering Corps (Andy Capp Commandos / Aldershot Concrete Company) was not formed until 1941.

This is why the RAMC trg Manuals all had sections of fortifying meals for patients and camp cookery.

Have you any idea as to whom in the pic is your relly??