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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 09 July 16 12:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jim1 on Friday 08 July 16 22:44 BST (UK)
Not convinced he's from a mounted Regt. The "crop" might be a baton.
ASC usually had a lanyard over the left shoulder.
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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 10 July 16 00:29 BST (UK) »
There is something not quite right about the "mount" postcard. I think it may be a postcard showing all the services...navy, army and air (at least I think that is supposed to be a bi-plane on the right)

The cutout looks a bit strange the way it is cut around the plane... and I wonder if it was just an ordinary postcard with something in the centre that someone in the family has cut out to make it into a mount.

There are lots of examples of "united we stand" postcards if you google including this one which looks to have been produced with a photo of high ranking officer in middle.  My guess is the person has cut out the official picture and put their own in its place.
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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 10 July 16 01:12 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jim1 on Saturday 09 July 16 10:39 BST (UK)
It is a professionally taken picture possibly at the end of his training period.
The mount is obviously predominantly Naval & the inclusion of the Japanese flag appears to confirm it with the RFC & RA snippets stuck on.
So was this taken at or near a Naval base ?

Thanks Jim. If the photo was taken at a training base, that probably explains the building in the background. :)

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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #30 on: Sunday 10 July 16 01:33 BST (UK) »
The cutout does look odd, but I think it has been done commercially. The oval shape would be very difficult to cut out with a pair of household scissors - this looks nice and even. Presumably the bits around the plane would have been less detailed to make them stronger when cut out?  :-\

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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #31 on: Sunday 10 July 16 15:41 BST (UK) »
It's that plane thing that I think makes it unlikely to be a mount. Seems odd to have been designed with a mount that has something sticking out over the photo. But as an overlay on a picture montage thing it would. Razor blade to cut it out?

Either way it doesn't help identify the photo - I just thought it interesting 

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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #32 on: Sunday 10 July 16 15:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: GemmaL on Friday 08 July 16 13:47 BST (UK)
My family has a photo of Uncle Ralph Barron and we can't seem to find any military information about him on Ancestry. I'm assuming it's more likely to be first world war than second because of the flags but his uniform for me isn't giving anything away so I would just like to share and see if anyone has any ideas.

Sadly all that is written on the back is "Poor Uncle Ralph". We also have no idea why it says that, we don't know if he died in the war or was injured because our research is coming up with nothing.

Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated.
have you tried to remove the photo from its mounting?
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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #33 on: Sunday 10 July 16 15:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ScouseBoy on Sunday 10 July 16 15:44 BST (UK)
have you tried to remove the photo from its mounting?

Please read replies #5 and #6.
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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #34 on: Sunday 10 July 16 16:19 BST (UK) »
I looks like a template is used then the soldier's photo is turned into a postcard:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/United-to-Conquer-WWI-First-World-War-Postcard-/391461498498

Same template...different soldier.

As a postcard collector...I have seen many variations of these.

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Re: help with uniform (WWI?)
« Reply #35 on: Sunday 10 July 16 16:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Treetotal on Sunday 10 July 16 16:19 BST (UK)
I looks like a template is used then the soldier's photo is turned into a postcard:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/United-to-Conquer-WWI-First-World-War-Postcard-/391461498498

Same template...different soldier.

As a postcard collector...I have seen many variations of these.

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Possibly stood outside of the same building looking at that.  :)

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