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Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« on: Monday 26 January 15 17:33 GMT (UK) »
I need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier, my great-uncle Edward Wisby. The photo shows him sitting with three pals. He is the one bottom left. I think he may have been in the army after WWII into the early 1920s so this may date from that period.

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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #1 on: Monday 26 January 15 18:14 GMT (UK) »
Good evening,

They are all gunners (privates) in the Royal Artillery.

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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #2 on: Monday 26 January 15 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Thank you.

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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 January 15 14:47 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if these uniforms were used after the war because my grandmother told me that she thinks he was in the army after 1919.


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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 January 15 16:42 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if these uniforms were used after the war because my grandmother told me that she thinks he was in the army after 1919.

There is an Edward Wisby in the Royal Garrison Artillery who was entitled to the Victory Medal and British War Medal so he served before 1919. He enlisted in 1916 from an address in Battersea. He was a gas meter reader in civilian life. It looks as though he was born in December 1893. Is this your chap?

He was discharged 20/9/1919.
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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 29 January 15 17:16 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the info but I don't think that is our Edward as he was born in 1901, that's why we think he served after the war.

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Re: Need help identifying the regiment and rank of a soldier
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 08 February 15 18:34 GMT (UK) »
The pic is pre 1922 when the uniforms changed slightly. He still has the earlier pattern SD cap, and I'd say that they are new recruits.
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