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What is this Uniform
« on: Sunday 18 July 10 09:05 BST (UK) »
i was wondering if anybody can tell me what uniform this is
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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 July 10 15:15 BST (UK) »
could it be telegram boy

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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 July 10 15:51 BST (UK) »
I have seen that uniform before somewhere on the telly maybe :-\ Do you know the approximate year of the photo?
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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 18 July 10 16:16 BST (UK) »
I was going to suggest He was a Hotel Bell Boy,but i have just noticed he is holding some kind of leather whip.With what looks like a silver ring on the bottom :-\ a bandsman maybe they wear white gloves?
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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 18 July 10 16:21 BST (UK) »
Late 19th/early 20th century Fusilier 'walking 'out' uniform?
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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 18 July 10 18:57 BST (UK) »
Boys' Brigade?
Byers (Salford & London)
Stringfellow (Salford & Chorley)
Holmes (Manchester & Birmingham)
Goulding/Golden (Birmingham & Lincolnshire)
Bassett (Manchester & Salford, Staffordshire)
Child (Lincolnshire)
Belshaw (Salford)
Hallsworth (Eccles & Salford)
Vernon (Bury & Chapel en le Frith)

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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #6 on: Monday 19 July 10 00:20 BST (UK) »
The man in the uniform was born in 1882 and i think that he would be about 18 in the pic, he was in the Royal Horse Artillery in WW1, although he did enlist in 1900, i know that he was in India at some time.

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Re: What is this Uniform
« Reply #7 on: Monday 19 July 10 09:49 BST (UK) »
The collar badges look like an early version of the RA 'grenade'.
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