ANY CLUES?

[oleonepace]

I don't have access to the original and only have this as a scan.

[Viktoria]

 The Turks wore something rather like this shape but in an ordinary material.
 I`ve looked at Montenegran  and Serbian troops but nothing exactly like .
 Turkish was my first thought--- unless officers wore something different.

I hope you solve the mystery. Viktoria.

[scrimnet]

I shall throw the cat amongst the pigeons here...The hat COULD be part of Ernest Shackletons cold weather gear for the British Army...This COULD be be Russia, and part of the White army fighting the Bolshviks in 1919.

I cant make out the webbing.

Yes that is a cotton 50 round bandolier

I am away with work, and have no access to my books pro tem, so unable to give a fuller answer...

[oleonepace]

Cat well thrown, scrimnet!

I know that, with family research, it is very dangerous to make assumptions. I assume that 'my Alf' is a British [territorial] soldier and that the theatre of war was most probably northern Europe or possibly Turkey based largely on circumstantial evidence suggested by the source of the photo. if he comes from or is related to the family I suspect - the Cheshers of Hertfordshire - they have a family history of enlisting in 'local' regiments.
Thanks to all for your suggestions and interest.

Tony