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Offline Goody Goldfish

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Uniform ID
« on: Sunday 29 March 15 16:36 BST (UK) »
Can anyone help identify this uniform please. I thought it was Royal Irish Fusiliers but cannot find anything that quite fits the collar badge (the Kings's crown?) and the badge on the upper sleeve. The photo was taken at Abernethy's studio in Belfast. I do not know who they are other that they are from my grandparents photo album and my grandmother appears in another photo with the woman and her children. Many thanks for any assistance.

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #1 on: Monday 30 March 15 07:10 BST (UK) »
Is it a maple leaf ? When I zoom it pixelated.
If it is he is Canadian

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #2 on: Monday 30 March 15 10:07 BST (UK) »
The tunic does appear to have pocket pleats, so dates to 1915-16. I believe British infantry regiments dropped collar badges for WW1, so Ady suggestion is probably correct.

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 April 15 18:05 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your comments, I thought the collar badge was a crown but its not all that clear.

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 April 15 18:10 BST (UK) »
Yes he's Canadian Expeditionary Force.
It's a maple leaf you can just make out ada part of Canada

Possibly a Battery Sergeant Major in Canadian artillery.

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 01 April 15 23:12 BST (UK) »
Have you tried posting it on the WW1 and Badge Forums? Definately Canadian but not Infantry. As Ady says Possibly RCA.

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Did the Canadian Engineers also have the Flaming Grenade above theirs?
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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 02 April 15 00:31 BST (UK) »
http://www.cefresearch.ca/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=6&sid=5a746f5aa0d3837e72fb98442856ae76

These guys maybe able to help.
artillery or Engineers but unsure myself

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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 02 April 15 12:06 BST (UK) »
The [British] Royal Engineers' sergeants wore, and perhaps still do, a grenade badge above their three stripes.  Royal Artillery sergeants did not - they wore/wear a gun badge on each arm, muzzle forwards.

On the enlarged photo the word CANADA is visible.
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Re: Uniform ID
« Reply #8 on: Friday 03 April 15 17:37 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much Ady Ainslie and Ken, that was so helpful. I had not thought of Canadian forces at all. Very Grateful, Thanks Nicola
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