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cap badge identification please
« on: Monday 05 November 12 22:03 GMT (UK) »
Please can I have some help identifying this soldiers cap badge. I found him in a family album and don't know who he is.

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Re: cap badge identification please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 05 November 12 22:56 GMT (UK) »
Here is a close up of the badge in a bit higher resolution.

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Re: cap badge identification please
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 November 12 23:15 GMT (UK) »
Immediate thought is the Royal Engineers.
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Re: cap badge identification please
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 06 November 12 00:38 GMT (UK) »
I agree with Salty looking at the enhanced scan...can you make out the shoulder title on an enhanced scan is it RE?

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Re: cap badge identification please
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 06 November 12 10:52 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Salty and Ady. Yes, looking at the shoulder title on the original photo with a magnifying glass, it looks like RE. Well spotted. Now I need to find out if I have got any Royal Engineers in the family.

The photo was taken at a studio in Newark, but the family is from Leicester. Does anyone know if any of the Royal Engineers were based in Newark in WW1?

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 06 November 12 16:24 GMT (UK) »
Yes there was a RE depot at Newark during WW 1

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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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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 06 November 12 16:25 GMT (UK) »
Brilliant. Thanks Ady.
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