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Re: Date and ID military photo
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 16 July 15 12:56 BST (UK) »
Tunisia was French. Italians took over Libya in 1911. They first acquired parts of Somalia in the 1880s. Could be either. UK had territories next to both. Italy joined the allies in WW1 in 1915.

You need an Italian fashion web site to discover when their soldiers started to put a crease in their uniform.

British postcards have message and address on one side after 1902.

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Re: Date and ID military photo
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 16 July 15 13:06 BST (UK) »
No, Ken is right. I now think the jacket is the 1902 pattern British tropical issue. It actually survived into WWII. Patch pleat breast pockets only. Two of the three men are wearing what appears to be webbing belts which makes them British. So, it comes down to the helmet badges. I don't know what they were, New Zealanders had a similar badge. I don't know whether there were British or Commonwealth troops in Italy in WWI.   
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Re: Date and ID military photo
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Re: Date and ID military photo
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 16 July 15 23:52 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your insights. So the consensus seems to be that the soldiers may be British? I can't think of any relatives who were in the army before WWI, but I'll have a closer look. The problem is I'm not even sure from which side of my mother's family the photo came.

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Re: Date and ID military photo possibly WW1
« Reply #13 on: Friday 17 July 15 11:16 BST (UK) »
I tried to enlarge the photograph but it's still not very clear, my first thought regarding the helmet plates was the "Royal Marines Light Infantry"

A quick internet search shows that the possibilities are endless

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Re: Date and ID military photo
« Reply #14 on: Friday 17 July 15 12:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JAGER on Thursday 16 July 15 16:14 BST (UK)
Quote from: Regorian on Thursday 16 July 15 13:06 BST (UK)
I don't know whether there were British or Commonwealth troops in Italy in WWI.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9522135.stm

 I have a person in my tree who was killed in 1918 in Italy. He was with the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He is buried at the Granezza British Cemetery. Vicenza. Veneto. Italy.

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Re: Date and ID military photo possibly WW1
« Reply #15 on: Friday 17 July 15 12:31 BST (UK) »
It could be in Egypt?     Look at the complexion of the clean shaven man
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Re: Date and ID military photo possibly WW1
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 18 July 15 22:14 BST (UK) »
The cap badge looks like RASC  or Royal Logistics Corps.   Could it therefore be Army Service Corps?
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Re: Date and ID military photo possibly WW1
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 18 July 15 22:31 BST (UK) »
Good evening,

This could be anytime WW1 to WW2. I would be inclined to veer towards early 20s just from the look of them.

The cap badge is indistinct but is definitely an 8 pointed star. There is no scroll under it so that leaves Army Service Corp or Devonshires.

Not only artillery wore lanyards Jim.

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