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Offline ellvera

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Unknown Scottish soldier
« on: Thursday 10 March 16 21:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I would be grateful if someone could help identify which regiment this soldier belongs to - if indeed it is a uniform?

Thankyou
Barbara

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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 March 16 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Any idea of the year it was taken?
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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 March 16 21:35 GMT (UK) »
Hope you don't mind, Barbara - but with such a good scan . . hard to resist.

Sorry I can't help with the uniform -   (Ooops - didn't notice this isn't the photo board!  Sorry)

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:02 GMT (UK) »
Tartan has some similarities to Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ...

Can you get a close up of the cap badge? I think this looks OK to fit with that theory.

Most jackets are cut away (to fit around a sporran). Someone will be able to tell you more about this I hope as my knowledge on the subject is non-existent.  :)

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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:07 GMT (UK) »
I stand to be corrected, but the badge looks like The King's Own Scottish Borderers to me.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Or what are the initials on the shoulder board, please?
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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:13 GMT (UK) »
A word of caution.

Photographic studios in Edinburgh would have a wardrobe  of Scots soldier uniforms,  and visitors could get their photo taken to impress people with.
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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Ruskie , Scouseboy and Jebber.
That's very interesting Scouseboy re: the studio uniform.I did wonder that myself.

Sorry I don't know the year -as far as I know we have no Scottish rellies!
Hawick would be on the Scottish border wouldn't it?

A couple of English family members were in service in Hawick,late 1890's, early 1900's but they had no children and the postcards sent don't indicate time out for military service.We were assuming WW1.Will do my best to get a clear image of the cap badge and shoulder.
Wiggy
That is awesome thankyou :) I don't care what board it is on.
Much appreciated

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Re: Unknown Scottish soldier
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 10 March 16 22:31 GMT (UK) »
Looking at the staff(?) he is holding implies his role relates to horses.

BTW, I can see no indication that this is not a genuine soldier in uniform. :(

This man may have been a friend or more distant relative so don't necessarily dismiss him as an imposter.  :)

Barbara, is there a photographer's stamp on the photo? If you want this photo dated there are some who can help you if you provide a scan of the entire photo front and back including all edges.
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