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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 20 March 10 21:10 GMT (UK) »
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.

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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 20 March 10 21:23 GMT (UK) »
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 20 March 10 21:33 GMT (UK) »
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?

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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 20 March 10 21:56 GMT (UK) »
Lancs:Barrow,Boyer,Carr,Leete,Morris,Phillips,Sabine,Thickett.
West Midlands:Barnett,Blackwood,Falconer
Ireland: Hearn,Morris
USA :Boyer,Thickett


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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 20 March 10 22:19 GMT (UK) »
Doesn't time fly when you're having fun  ;D

Pete,

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

Phil
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

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Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 20 March 10 22:23 GMT (UK) »
 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


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Lancs:Barrow,Boyer,Carr,Leete,Morris,Phillips,Sabine,Thickett.
West Midlands:Barnett,Blackwood,Falconer
Ireland: Hearn,Morris
USA :Boyer,Thickett

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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 20 March 10 23:36 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 21 March 10 00:52 GMT (UK) »
Me!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

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!
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Re: Regiment ID please [ Fleet Pond Camp ]
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 21 March 10 01:13 GMT (UK) »
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??
One more charge and then be dumb,
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        May the victors when they come
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