identify military uniform

[churchmouse]

can anyone suggest a site to help identify a military uniform - possibly coldstream guards late 1800's. Have a potrait of ancestor in uniform but no idea of regiment.
churchmouse

[gortonboy]

hi,,your on it !!!!  can you post the image? 

[gortonboy]

if you post it on the armed forces board,,,the uniform experts will certainly have a go

[gortonboy]

do you have a name and year of birth for the soldier in question?

[churchmouse]

Have sent you a pm

Cheers!

[gortonboy]

would be better to post it on the forum,,,your in the right place,,but im no uniform expert.

[gortonboy]

i can look for military records for him,,which would help with his regiment...you say Joseph Brooks was born c1870,,but you dont say where? it would also help if you could tell me his parents names and wifes,,,as records sometimes give next of kin ,,and this would help us to cross check we had the right man.

[churchmouse]

Thanks,

He was born approx 1872 probably in Farnworth, Lancashire.  His father was Joseph, his mother Eliza.  He lived in Darley Street in 1891.

He married several years later -probably not when he was in the military.

The potrait shows a man wearing long black boots to his knees, white trousers, red jacket, with silver coloured breast shield..a white/gold sash across his chest. His hat has white plumes. 

churchmouse

[gortonboy]

hi  looks like the uniform will be of the Life Guards.

Joseph Brooks joined the 1st regiment of Life Guards in 1891....served 4 years 51 days before buying himself out.  Next of kin on record given as mother  Eliza of America?