WWI - Which Regiment, please?

[SmallTownGirl]

This is Sgt John Rowlinson.  Can anyone help me with details of the Regiment he was in please?

Thanks
STG

[madpat]

That looks like a Royal Artillary Cap Badge to me which is a crown mounted on a sort of cannon but I cannot swear to it as I couldn't make out the badge in enough detail when I examined your photo.

[SmallTownGirl]

That looks like a Royal Artillary Cap Badge to me which is a crown mounted on a sort of cannon but I cannot swear to it as I couldn't make out the badge in enough detail when I examined your photo.

I've just googled RA cap badges and see what you mean.  I only have a photocopy of the photo, not the original, so there's nothing much I can do to sharpen it up.

Is the RA the same as the Royal Field Artillary, or were they different?  [total military ignoramus asks]

[madpat]

It looks like the Royal Field Artillery was an element of the Royal Regiment of Artillery try googling the following link by pasting it into your browser.  http://www.1914-1918.net/cra.htm

Do you know which war he was in? and anything else about his dates of birth etc. ?

[SmallTownGirl]

It looks like the Royal Field Artillery was an element of the Royal Regiment of Artillery try googling the following link by pasting it into your browser.  http://www.1914-1918.net/cra.htm

Do you know which war he was in? and anything else about his dates of birth etc. ?

I'm helping a friend with her tree and he was an uncle (by marriage, I think) of hers.  She did say he was gassed and she thought he was in a mounted regiment, and I see that the RHA was part of the RA, so that's looks like it could have some element of the truth in it.  She says he died 1961/62ish in Derby, but if he did I can't find any record of it (even using variations of the spelling of his SN).  I've asked her to have another think to see if we can get any closer.

[madpat]

Well, if he was gassed then it looks like he served as a young man in the first war especially if he was in the mounted brigade.
If she is not too sure about his death you could try to search within a five or six year range around 1961-2 to see if that gets a result.

[SmallTownGirl]

Well, if he was gassed then it looks like he served as a young man in the first war especially if he was in the mounted brigade.
If she is not too sure about his death you could try to search within a five or six year range around 1961-2 to see if that gets a result.

I've tried 1958-1968, but no luck.

I think I have found the death of her aunt though and that looks like 1961, so maybe she's confused the death dates for the two of them.  I'll have to go back to her and check. 

Thanks for your help.

[madpat]

How old was her aunt when she died? It could be that John was what he called himself but he may have been registered under another name. Was he native to Derby and did he live there all his life? You might find him in a census document for 1911.

[AJ100]

I immediately thought of Royal Artillery but shouldn't the gun on the cap badge have a barrel? It doesn't look as if it has. The collar flashes look like grenades which the Guards use, don't they?

AJ