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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #45 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 01:47 BST (UK) »
Thank you all the contributors of information so far. This is helping to develop our understanding of the image. Hopefully now our message will reach the folks who are researching Frederick DEXTER and we will be able to learn how he fits into the WILLIAMS family.

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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #46 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 07:22 BST (UK) »
As the sitter in the original photo is in tropical uniform, he is more likely to be in the Royal Garrison Regiment which was formed from personnel from the Royal Reserve Regiments (used for Home Defence Duties). The Royal Garrison Regiment was in South Africa between 1904 and 1908.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Garrison_Regiment


The features in the three comparison photos look similar to me (including 3 moustaches), except for the shape of the left earlobe in the wedding photo. The different earlobe may be due to an injury after the first photo was taken.


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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #47 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 07:34 BST (UK) »
If the sitter is Frederick DEXTER then I don’t think he was out of the country between those dates mentioned above.
He was married in 1903, daughter born in 1905, and son in 1906.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #48 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 07:52 BST (UK) »
Now that there is some idea of who the person is, should there be military records to give more information?

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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #49 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 08:53 BST (UK) »
Good morning,

The RGR 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th battalions were sent to South Africa in 1904 and returned in 1905. They were disbanded in 1905/6 and the regt disbanded in 1908. This I am assuming was the regtl depot at Fort Widley where records were held until 1905 when they were transferred to Winchester.

5th battalion were sent to Nova Scotia in 1905 and returned dec 1905 and disbanded.

Prior to SA the 4 battalions were in Malta to relieve regular troops for SA duties. Whilst there they wore temperate uniforms, ie; blue serge. The uniform shown would only have been worn in SA.

So that leaves an 18mth window for this photo, May 1904 to Dec 1905. But troops whose time was up would have returned earlier than that date.

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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #50 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 09:00 BST (UK) »
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So that leaves an 18mth window for this photo, May 1904 to Dec 1905

PC Dexter is mentioned in Bristol newspapers in May and December 1904
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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #51 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 09:17 BST (UK) »
Feels like unravelling a mystery! Does he appear in any military records?

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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 09:22 BST (UK) »
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Does he appear in any military records?

Frederick Dexter from Oakham? No.
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Re: Need help to restore and date an image of a soldier in uniform from late 1800s
« Reply #53 on: Tuesday 05 April 22 09:33 BST (UK) »
Is that unusual if he is the correct person?
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