age of boy and uniform? dating please

[bearkat]

Has one photo benn flipped (mirror image)?

The more prominent ear and short eyebrow have swapped sides.

[IgorStrav]

Jim says that they can't be the same boy.  I think in the lower photo the boy has two prominent ears, and you're right, Bearcat, in the upper photo the boy has one ear which sticks out more than the other.

But I still think there is a general similarity, and the ears - whether sticky out or not - have a similar shape on the two boys.

[km1971]

Hi Melissa

They were the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment from December 1887 based in Bedford. The badge is a hart with both front legs in a ford. A better scan would show if it has one or two scrolls below. Two scrolls would indicate 4th VB based in Huntingdon.

The 1st VB were based in Hertford and the 2nd VB in Hemel Hempstead. Both these had badges with the hart with one foreleg raised. The Bedford Regiment was the county regiment of both Beds and Herts.

To be in the Volunteers you had to live locally as they attended every week. So knowing where he was living should confirm which VB he was in.

Ken

[melandjamie]

Thank Km but unfortunatley i don't know who this is let alone were they lived lol. I'm trying to get the original photo so hopefully hat will shed some more light on the subject

[melandjamie]

Hello again 
well this just gets stranger and stranger.
I've got a hold of the original photo and on the back is written
George Washington Lincoln Hemphill. He was born in Sydney Australia 4/7/1888 and died in Australia 1948 and as far as i can tell he never left Australia but here he is posing in an Irish uniform??? The family originated from Ireland and i'm pretty sure his father moved back tere when they got divorced.
Now i'm totally confused any suggestions?

Thanks 

[IgorStrav]

Dont forget the attribution on the back of the photo may be wrong. Photographs of friends and relations were distributed widely, so this might be a photograph of someone else entirely, and a later person has guessed who it is.

Not helpful, I know, but possible to explain the mystery.

[jim1]

Is there anything else on the back re. photographer or is it completely plain.

jim