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Offline purdy

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help with regiment please
« on: Tuesday 05 October 10 21:03 BST (UK) »
Could some one give me info on which regiment this uniform could be please
Thanks Purdy
Anslow Wednesfild,Baker&Parkes Willenhall,Evans West Bromwich& Birmingham ,Coombs Birmingham&Somerset,Stokes Sedgley, Mole Birmingham

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Re: help with regiment please
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 October 10 07:00 BST (UK) »
Looks like the Border Regiment in a 1915 pattern tunic.

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Re: help with regiment please
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 October 10 15:08 BST (UK) »
Quote from: km1971 on Wednesday 06 October 10 07:00 BST (UK)
Looks like the Border Regiment in a 1915 pattern tunic.

Ken

Spot on...

And early 1916
One more charge and then be dumb,
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Re: help with regiment please
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 October 10 20:01 BST (UK) »
thanks to you both this photo was taken in birmingham would some one from there be in that regiment?
thanks Purdy
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Re: help with regiment please
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 October 10 22:34 BST (UK) »
Do you have a name for the lad in the photo?

Ady
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: help with regiment please
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 07 October 10 14:45 BST (UK) »
dont have a name think it may be Coombs or Evans as it was taken in Birmingham
thanks Purdy
Anslow Wednesfild,Baker&Parkes Willenhall,Evans West Bromwich& Birmingham ,Coombs Birmingham&Somerset,Stokes Sedgley, Mole Birmingham
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