Can you identify this uniform?

[pm8178]

Hi, Can anyone identify the uniform shown in the photograph, is it army or airforce?
Any info. would be appreciated.

[Pete Keane]

Army.

Cant help with Regt though.

Pete

[maidmarianoops]

this is the nearest i could find

sylvia

search google images for

home guard

[pm8178]

Thank you both, all bits of info help. Happy Christmas!

[maidmarianoops]

have a safe one

sylvia

[Pete Keane]

My feeling is that it is pre-war.....look at his breast pockets, they are a different shape to the home guard battledress pockets, his is a tunic I reckon.

I believe it is referred to as Service Dress.

His cap suggests 1930's, his tunic pre-1937? when Battle Dress was introduced.

Territorial units got all the disused kit, so a possibility if its a later photo.

Not home guard though.

Someone will be along shortly to give us the exact answer......

what do you know about him?

Pete

[Hackstaple]

Looks like an airforce uniform but if so not the RAF. No one-stripers there nor in the RAF regiment until this very year when the rank of lance-corporal was instituted.

The shoulder title looks like a number, something like 286 but airforce squadrons did not have numbered shoulder titles. The features look vaguely slavonic.

Nothing to do with the Home Guard - just a forage cap.

[lowanslow]

Could this not be the uniform of the Kings Rifle Regiment, it looks the right shade, I cant make out the collar badge though but there is one there. 

[ScouseBoy]

Could it be The Royal Observer Corps?