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Offline Andy J2022

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Re: Dating an army photograph
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 13 October 22 14:29 BST (UK) »
Only the oldest 2 Officers have WW1 medal ribbons which gives the impression
this is 1930's & before the uniform change.
jim, I'm wondering if this was a slip of the metaphorical pen. There is only one officer here, the captain sitting behind the large cup. There are 3 LCpls, 3 Sergeants (one of whom has medal ribbons) a staff sergeant and a WO2 who is not a Company Sergeant Major, so if this is a shooting team maybe he is the QMSI responsible for skill at arms training. Junior and Senior NCOs are never referred to as officers, even though the word clearly appears in their title (there is one exception to that general rule: a soldier would be charged with striking a superior officer if he hit another soldier who was senior to him by rank, even if that was a non-commissioned rank).

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Re: Dating an army photograph
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 13 October 22 14:44 BST (UK) »
A slip of the metaphorical brain I think.
The chap with the Tam is an NCO of course.
Still appear to be the 2 oldest even the older
NCO's don't have them hence the date.
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Re: Dating an army photograph
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 13 October 22 16:33 BST (UK) »
I would certainly agree with your dating.

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Re: Dating an army photograph
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 13 October 22 18:28 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your replies - you've been so helpful.

Given what you've said I think this must be a photo from my grandad's earliest years in the army - he joined aged 15 in 1939. He was in the RAOC.

I had wrongly assumed it was his father and uncles' generation.

Looking at it again I think I can see a boy who may be my grandad - it's quite difficult to be sure because I don't have many photos of him from this period!
Thorpe, Feak & Townsend (Norfolk) / Ormandy & Slater (Dalton-in-Furness) / Corner (Liverpool) / Wray (Lincolnshire) / Fidler, Bridge & Turner (Derbyshire)