Unknown Cap Badge (Completed) & Soldier (Uncompleted) !!

[Salty]

The pips could have been my imagination.  Cannot see them now.

Try this site for medals, as I said I am not an expert but could be any one of a few. My favourite is the African General Service medal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_campaign_medals

Perhaps if we are lucky one of our experts will come on here tonight and ID it straight away.

[genealogistsykes]

I don't know how anyone can identify the medal ribbon. I can only just make it out haha.

[John915]

Good evening,

Try this site for the medal ribbon; http://www.worldmedals.co.uk/Rib/Britrib/britribb.htm

I don't know but would say the uniform is later than WW1. He could be a warrant officer as no pips are showing but they later wore the same uniforms as officers and still do.

John915

[DavidGreenall110]

I'd guess at an Officer as he has the "Sam Brown" belt accross the chest and the cap looks like the officers pattern.

[crimea1854]

If I was a betting man I would put money on the medal being the Queens South Africa Medal, for service during the 2nd Boer War. Two companies of the Warwickshire Yeomanry served in South Africa (5th and 103rd Co. 2nd Battalion IY).

I did not find either of the men you named on the nominal list of IY produced by Kevin Asplin, but a search of other family names may provide an answer:

http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/impyeomanryl.html

Martin

[genealogistsykes]

I've gotten an email back from the Warwickshire Yeomanry Regiment Museum and they also seem to think that the medal ribbon has a high chance of being the Queens South Africa Medal. They found out that a Charles Henry Sykes served with WYR for a while and also was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal.

I'm having a look at all of the GREEN'S seeing as the photo came with everything else that belonged to Elizabeth Gayton Green and her family (Green).

So you don't think this photo is from WWI? you think it's from the Boer War?

[crimea1854]

I think this photograph is from WW1.

Martin

[alan o]

The style of uniform and the ribbon would be after the end of Boer War.  Excatly when between that date and the end of WW1 is harder to determine.

[genealogistsykes]

Oh I see, his uniform looks the same as my great grandfather's - WWI. See pic below: