Help Identify Uniform

[westdale]

Any ideas on a name for the regiment etc ?
This is some sort of volunteer uniform ( family information ).
I thought at one time it was local to Gainsborough Lincolnshire ca 1914.
Now I have a suspicion it might be earlier Cheshire.
The wearer was born in 1879.

Thanks in advance!

[philipsearching]

Do you have (or have you seen) the original photo?  If so, is there a photographer's name?
Is it possible to get a higher resolution scan of the belt buckle?

My gut feeling is late Victorian/Edwardian (but there are uniform experts on here who would be able to offer a more accurate date range)

The emblem on the belt buckle might possibly be a grenade, or a disc surmounted by Prince of Wales feathers, but I can't see it clearly.

Philip

[jess5athome]

Hi, does anyone think there is a resemblance to the 3rd photograph down on the link.

Frank.

http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/forgottenfaces.html

I'm especially looking at the belt buckle.

[westdale]

It certainly has the right feel, and encourages me to think of the earlier date. Can't, I think, do much about clarity of buttons and belt. It is possible, if this is Cheshire volunteers, that the uniform is light blue. The Yeomanry wore light blue and cream I think. The symbol on the arm puzzles me too.

[westdale]

here is a go at the buckle ... lion's head or grenade ?

[t mo]

can we have a name and date and place of birth , may be worth a scan through army records or censuses for him and his rgt .
regards
trevor

[westdale]

Herbert Townsend Dalton, Born Northwich 1879.
Worked for Brunner Mond (later called ICI) Northwich - I include that in case there was a works volunteer section?
Of interest, but not great relevance, his grandfather Peter Carter was in the Cheshire Yeomanry and on the 'wrong' side at Peterloo - dragged off his horse and escaped over garden walls.

[westdale]

Clutching at straws ( and the pun is intentional ), does anyone else think that the cheshire badge, which I have just found, matches the belt in the original picture ?

[km1971]

Tunic is standard infantry 1881 to 1900 - jam pot cuffs. I have seen the arm badge before but cannot remember where. Facings (collar and cuffs) look white, but could be buff of Cheshire regiment. Lincolnshire's are white.

If he was a Volunteer you will only find his record on Findmypast if he served in the Boer War. Volunteers formed Volunteer Companies in Regular battalions. Worth looking on Ancestry WW1/pension files as they will give previous service.

Ken