Can anyone help please?

[2november78]

I've tried zooming in on the cap badge on the 2nd photo.
I haven't got a clue what it is......

[jess5athome]

Hi, I've been searching the cap badge also and cannot find a match 

Also I am confused (but that doesn't take much  )
He looks older as a sergeant, taken 1918, then he does when he was in the Artillery and was what looks to be an officer? surely he was a sergeant first.

Regards.
Frank.

[2november78]

I didn't even notice that.

Could he have been demoted? I know that happened to a relative of mine.

Or if it's a different regiment (going by the badge), he might not have kept the high rank? I don't know though, i'm just guessing.

[bleckie]

Hi All

Does anyone think the same as me.

That they are not the same person I think the images from Royal Artillery could be from a later generation and all I place that on is the standard of cloth of the uniform.

If he was commissioned he would not have been demoted!

His birth certificate is available to download from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Yours Aye
BruceL

[jess5athome]

Hi All

Does anyone think the same as me.


Yours Aye
BruceL

Hi, yes, I do, that's what I was getting at in my reply #10, he looks significantly older as the Sergeant in 1918 than he does as an Officer.
Regards, Frank. 

[dathai]

Would the animal in the circle of the badge be a Dragon suggesting a Welsh regiment ?

[jess5athome]

Hi again,
I've just downloaded and enlarged the second photograph and it looks as if the tunic buttons resemble those belonging to the Scots Guards regiment. 

Frank.

[2november78]

I've just had some more information back from my husbands relative, who i'm trying to help.

James' father was David Wilkie Clement.

She has a cutting saying "CLEMENT, Sgt. DAVID ALLAN. The younger son of Mr. D W Clement, he served in the Royal Engineers during the First world War.  He was invalided home suffering from the effects of gas, and died on 19th March at East Pitkierie, aged 20.  (March 1917)". 
This would imply that the guy with the moustache was David Allan, but the stamp on the back of that photo reads "Newbridge February 1918" - Newbridge, Ireland, so the moustache must be James Wilkie Clement?
 

[bleckie]

Hi All

From the CWGC Site

CLEMENT, DAVID ALLAN
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:106485
Date of Death:19/03/1917
Age:20
Regiment/Service:Royal Engineers
 Reserve Coy formerly Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Grave Reference
CemeteryKILRENNY PARISH CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of D. W. and Agnes Clement, of East Pitkierie, Anstruther, Fife.

So who is in the photograph in a Artillery uniform

Yours Aye
BruceL

Added:-  What makes you think it is Newbridge Ireland.