Which Army uniform

[smeghead]

Now over a year on since i tryed to identify army uniform still none the wiser anyone got any fresh information???

Jim

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I finally have his first name Which is Charles Taylor occupation Color Sergeant. Can anyone tell me where I can find more information on his army career regiment etc now i have the first name

Jim

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I have found out that his wife and daughters lived in Belfast also that Charles died at around 1905 as my Gr Gr grandmother remarried in 1910

Jim

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I now think he was part of the warwickshire regiment for some reason he never got sent to Rourke's RIF perhaps because he was a color sergeant and was responsible for recruiting the picture I now put at an earlier date of 1880 and have zoomed the number which could be a 24 with a spinc above later they became the south wales borders I am now studying uniforms from the Zulu campaign and the sleeve looks very similar to a welsh borderer in the famous film

Jim

[smeghead]

At long last the puzzle has been solved I found Charles Taylor colr sergt 1st lancashire fussiliers in the 1891 scottish census in Lanarkshire at a military barrack  it says he was born in England How can i now get his millary record which will give me more information do I have to go to kew or can i get it online ?

Jim

[atom12]

Hi

Good to see you have found Charles' regiment.  Eventually all the military records available will be online - an awful lot of the records were destroyed in WW2 bombing.

The first recent release of these are only for the initials A and B.  However, the link below should explain things in more detail.  Perhaps it will take a few years for all names to be searchable. 

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1114&ti=5538&r=5538&o_xid=30351&o_lid=30351&offerid=0%3a7935%3a0

Anne

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At long last the puzzle has been solved I found Charles Taylor colr sergt 1st lancashire fussiliers in the 1891 scottish census in Lanarkshire at a military barrack  it says he was born in England How can i now get his millary record which will give me more information do I have to go to kew or can i get it online ?
Jim

I’m sorry that I’ve only just seen this thread Jim, but I can confirm that he is a Colour Sergeant of the Lancashire Fusiliers, before 1881 the 20th Regiment of Foot.  The shoulder strap badge was a grenade above the block letters LF.  The Austrian cuff knot indicates that he was attached to one of the regiment’s Volunteer Battalions (VB) of Part-time citizen soldiers.  The regimental depot was in Bury

[Regorian]

Surprising it's taken so long. Can only mean the experts (I'm not one of them) were not on RC back in 2006. As a new request today, you would have only had to wait until tomorrow, at most, for an ID.

There were 2 cavalry and 14 infantry regiments in Zulu War. There were supposed to be 5 columns attacking, maybe reduced to 4, from North, West and South. Indian Ocean to the East. The Zulu's were doomed.

 

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Thank you frogsmile