Can anyone date this picture of Young soldiers - photo is on metal

[PopNorth22]

Thank you John. It certainly looks a lot like it, but what fancy uniforms they are wearing!  The one on the left does look rather like my Grandfather, born in 1883, so that would fit.  However, I wonder why the photo is on tin, which I would have thought would have gone out of fashion by the mid nineties,  although others have said they were popular with travelling photographers, so maybe they were at camp or something.
Regards
Valerie

[John915]

Good evening,

They are bandsmen, when I get to my laptop I can attach a photo.

John915

[John915]

Back again,

Stupid I know but the photo I found on my tablet doesn't appear on my laptop. In fact most of the BB photo's don't.

John915

[ScouseBoy]

Boys Brigade  was mostly associated with non conformist groups such as Methodist and Baptist as far as I recall.  A boys club if you like?

[PopNorth22]

I think they were definitely staunch Cof E.

[PopNorth22]

John915 - I'd love to seethe pictures if you can find them.  I've sent an email to the BB in Northants to see if they'll have a look - or maybe someone at headquarters would have a look.

[John915]

Good morning,

Church brigade were C of E, boys brigade were multi denominational but usually found at nonconformist chapels.

John915

[macintosh]

I haven't been able to find a Boys Brigade uniform of the time scale mentioned and the pillbox hats don't look like the two banded ones used by the BB, They do however look like 13th Hussars or Royal Artillery pillbox hats.

Could it be they are boy soldiers  or junior bandsmen in either of these regiments? or are the fledgling BB  using ex military uniforms,? This pic to me says Army. The medal does throw a spanner into my thinking though.
The "tin type" photograph would be better dated by the experts on the Photography Board on this site.


James

[Wiggy]

I'm not convinced by the medals shown at post 17 on this thread.  It looks to me as if there is a round medal with 8 points around the circle  -  not some raised work on top of a star . . . .  In fact - hard to say of course, but the round bit looks almost flat.

just my viewing - here is a snip from Pat's restore.

What do you think?