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Offline Aley

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What Regiment is this?
« on: Thursday 10 June 10 01:23 BST (UK) »
Could someone tell me which regiment this is and what time frame. His name is John R. Fisher born 1865 Glasgow, Scotland.

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 10 June 10 01:33 BST (UK) »
Hi Aley.

It looks like it could be the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but the cap badge is hard to make out.
Is there any chance of a higher definition scan?
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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 10 June 10 02:11 BST (UK) »
This photo was scanned in my machine, had to send the picture back.
 It kind of looks like a letter E. to me.
Lets see if this works.

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 10 June 10 02:31 BST (UK) »
Cap badges towards bottom of page, on this link Aley.

http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_badges_infantry1.htm
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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 10 June 10 03:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you Finbar

I will take a look. Where can I get more infor on the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Would they have a list of names?

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 10 June 10 08:02 BST (UK) »
The uniform is a bit odd and the bandolier is not Royal Warwickshire or any other regular infantry regt - he is probably a Volunteer as this was a sort of equipment used by them.

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 11 June 10 19:35 BST (UK) »
Is there any records with the names of the WW1 Volunteers.

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 11 June 10 20:02 BST (UK) »
Nothere are not.  He might be pre-war Territorial Force, an early war recruit in 1914/15 before proper kit was issued or a Volunteer Trg Corps (VTC) (think WW1 Home Guard).  I suspect he is the VTC soldier by his age.  There are TF county association records in places but no central or online register.

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Re: What Regiment is this?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 11 June 10 20:03 BST (UK) »
You might try posting it in the uniforms section of the Great War forum (free online) and their experts might help.  Can you blow the headshot photo up so I can see the abdges better?
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