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Offline Bagpuss_Janet

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Can you help identifying a uniform (and era) please?
« on: Friday 26 April 13 20:14 BST (UK) »
Can anybody help to identify the uniform in this photo please?

Also, I'm trying to see if I can date it.  I realise this is practically impossible but I thought it was worth a shot. :)



Thanks in advance.  :)

ETA:  I'll see if I can capture the badge a little larger.

ETA Again!
BALL - Kent (and a bit of Essex!)
BELL - Suffolk
BENDALL - Somerset
DARTNELL - Kent
DOWNING - Yorks
DRIVER - Kent
GROVE - Staffs
LIVERMORE - Kent (and a bit of Essex!)
LOVELL - Kent, Somerset
MINDHAM - Yorks
MOON - Berkshire, Cumbria, Kent, Lancs, Somerset, Staffs
MORELAND - Ireland, Liverpool, Essex
WALKER - Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent
WALTER - Kent

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Re: Can you help identifying a uniform (and era) please?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 27 April 13 08:36 BST (UK) »
WW1 era.  I think you will find with that Tunic and titles that he is probably a Canadian soldier.  He is not British. 

The Canadian tunics had more buttons down the front.  The belt is 'wrong' for a British soldier.

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Re: Can you help identifying a uniform (and era) please?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 27 April 13 10:39 BST (UK) »
That's interesting - thank you. :)
BALL - Kent (and a bit of Essex!)
BELL - Suffolk
BENDALL - Somerset
DARTNELL - Kent
DOWNING - Yorks
DRIVER - Kent
GROVE - Staffs
LIVERMORE - Kent (and a bit of Essex!)
LOVELL - Kent, Somerset
MINDHAM - Yorks
MOON - Berkshire, Cumbria, Kent, Lancs, Somerset, Staffs
MORELAND - Ireland, Liverpool, Essex
WALKER - Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent
WALTER - Kent

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Re: Can you help identifying a uniform (and era) please?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 27 April 13 13:08 BST (UK) »
Era must be around World War I. The lady's fashion suggests earlier rather than later.

I can't get a clear look at the shoulder titles or the collar badges but I notice he seems to be wearing two lanyards - one braided and one plain. It's not something I've seen before and it may have been quite common at the time but no doubt our residents experts will enlighten me !

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