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Title: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: chrisdyer on Friday 20 October 17 14:53 BST (UK)
Are you able to identify the uniform. No writing on the back but was taken at T. Johnstone, 71 Brandon Street, Motherwell
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: jim1 on Friday 20 October 17 18:05 BST (UK)
C. WW1 army uniform. He's a signaller. Could be New Zealand RE but not 100%.
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: tonepad on Friday 20 October 17 19:54 BST (UK)
The cap badge and collar insignia look like the 1st (Canterbury) Company of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/infantry-units/canterbury-infantry-regiment

Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: jim1 on Friday 20 October 17 20:02 BST (UK)
Cap badge & collar dogs are identical aren't they.
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: chrisdyer on Sunday 22 October 17 16:45 BST (UK)
Quote from: tonepad on Friday 20 October 17 19:54 BST (UK)
The cap badge and collar insignia look like the 1st (Canterbury) Company of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/infantry-units/canterbury-infantry-regiment
I'm not aware of any family from Scotland having gone to NZ.  Was it normal to go out there to sign up. Would they have come to Scotland during the war & that's how the photograph got taken?
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: jim1 on Sunday 22 October 17 17:27 BST (UK)
ANZAC's were in the UK waiting to go overseas. They would have received additional combat training while in the UK to prepare them for trench warfare.
It may be he was billeted with the family.
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: shanreagh on Thursday 02 November 17 08:00 GMT (UK)
The NZ Army hats are called 'lemon squeezers', for obvious reasons!
Title: Re: Are you able to identify this uniform & date it please?
Post by: chrisdyer on Thursday 02 November 17 09:34 GMT (UK)
Quote from: shanreagh on Thursday 02 November 17 08:00 GMT (UK)
The NZ Army hats are called 'lemon squeezers', for obvious reasons!
That made me smile.  Well done, thank you.