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Army group photo - please help with details
« on: Saturday 27 January 18 12:40 GMT (UK) »
I wonder if there is someone out there who recognise the photo and share details because I find it confusing.  It would appear all the men are dressed in the uniform of the Welsh Regiment 16th(Cardiff City)Battalion yet the person kneeling right holding rifle served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during WW1.  Hope you can help.

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 27 January 18 16:27 GMT (UK) »
Can’t help sorry Roy but an amazing picture. My grandfather served throughout the war with the RAMC.
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 27 January 18 16:34 GMT (UK) »
Could it have been taken at a military hospital?
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 27 January 18 16:39 GMT (UK) »
Hi Josey
Its possible but I do not know.
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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 27 January 18 16:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi Deidre
It is a great pic but so annoying not having any details.
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 27 January 18 16:41 GMT (UK) »
Have to admit, I didn’t think the RAMC carried weapons 🤔
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 28 January 18 16:11 GMT (UK) »
Could it be a group family photograph? Mother & Daughter with Daughter's husband next to her. Father middle back and the other five their sons.

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 28 January 18 18:18 GMT (UK) »
Somehow I can not see a family going to the bother of borrowing 8 uniforms of the same regiment and where would they get the rifles?
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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #8 on: Monday 29 January 18 14:20 GMT (UK) »
Dannemois I wasn't suggesting they were dressing up  :-\ I have a photograph of my Great Grandfather his two sons, brother and nephew all in uniform. Also in the photograph are my Great Grandmother and their two daughters, this was taken in 1914 while the men were on Embarkation leave and the ladies are wearing very similar white blouses and black skirts, as in your photograph. Sadly only two of the men made it home, so it was a much cherished photograph.