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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 28 February 16 22:11 GMT (UK) »
It looks to me to be taken c1880,  then I could well be wrong. With their uniforms they certainly  look the right age to be Army drummer, or bugler boys.

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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 28 February 16 22:16 GMT (UK) »
It could possibly be a theatrical or pantomime costume, difficult to tell after all this time?
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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 28 February 16 23:09 GMT (UK) »
They really are very young when they get cleaned up!!
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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #12 on: Monday 29 February 16 03:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for all your suggestions and to Wiggy for his work - they will almost certainly be British.  The Boys Brigade began in 1883 so is a possibility.  I think they may be in their late teens - people were sometimes a bit undersized in those days!
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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #13 on: Monday 29 February 16 03:41 GMT (UK) »
I didn't do much - it is Pat who has done all this work . . !   And what a job she's done too.   :)

Their faces don't look late teens - no matter what their size!    Drummer boys were taken on at about 9 weren't they??

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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #14 on: Monday 29 February 16 06:29 GMT (UK) »
The Pillbox Hats are sloping in the opposite direction for the army.
Either the photo is laterally inverted (mirror image) or the boys are in some other organisation as mentioned in previous posts.

Is it normal for this type of photo to be a mirror image?
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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #15 on: Monday 29 February 16 07:09 GMT (UK) »
Yes.

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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #16 on: Monday 29 February 16 08:39 GMT (UK) »
The 'star shaped' medal worn by the boy on the left (mirror image) looks more like a Boys Brigade badge than an army medal.
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Re: Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal
« Reply #17 on: Monday 29 February 16 18:55 GMT (UK) »
Good evening,

I would say BB as well, most likely this is the medal; https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=nectar-tb-v3&type=61465&p=boys%20brigade%20medals

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Added; It's a bronze or silver squad medal;
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