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Topic: Could George be smartened up for parade please (Read 433 times)
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scrimnet
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Indeed... 
And there is more if they need it...
For example, I could also date it etc...
Do they have any records etc??
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scrimnet
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OK then....
He is wearing the badge of Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment).
The badge was known as the "Eiffel Tower" because of it's shape...and the name of the Regt was changed to The Green Howards in 1920...
Now, as he is wearing collar dogs, this would date the pic to post WW1 for a start...
He has on a 1907 ptn Service dress jacket,and also has a stiffener in his hat.
He has no medal ribbons either...
The pic would not have been taken prior to 1918 (there are exceptions of course!) but collar dogs were not found on line infantry until after that date...and generally not until 1922...
The smudge at the top of the badge is in fact a coronet, and usually separate to the rest of the badge...
So all in all, a chap post WW1 and probably (as he has a 1907 jkt and not 1922 ptn) some time around 1920ish...
It may well be that he old stock uniform on and could be from 1936/7 ish, but deffo not after 1940 when this uniform was obsolete
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saddles
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Hi Elin.........Heres one from me.
Carolyn 
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