Need help Please, Is this Soldier's regiment Kings Own Royal Lancaster? photo id

[Raysgirl]

Aww thank you Jim for explaining the terminology that is most helpful.  Hope you don't mind me veering off my query but I could have done with your help a few years ago my dad sent for his records before he died and his record confused him and  he was angry about omissions in his record about  a mission his anti tank battery was sent on .

[jim1]

Service records only give postings & transfers etc. Individual actions are not recorded.
James' record doesn't mention the Arras Offensive (3rd. Battle of the Scarpe) where he received his wound.

[Raysgirl]

Thanks Jim so it seems, I'm still looking at Hussars and military records for this soldier. Anne

[jim1]

You won't find any TF service records. I think you need someone expert in 1908 TF units to try & identify the uniform.

[Raysgirl]

Thank you Jim you have been most helpful I shall go on the hunt for an expert  Anne

[jim1]

You won't find any TF service records

This may have been a bit misleading. There are TF records bundled with WW1 service records.
They belong to men who were in the TF & were embodied at the outbreak of war. Others are for men attesting into one of the TF Battalions during the war.
If you get anything let us know.

[Raysgirl]

Thanks Jim I will let you know if I come up with anything anne x

[T1]

This is positively, definitively not a British army uniform (though it is superficially similar to British Hussars and some TF Yeomanry uniforms).  The overall style is that of the pre-First World War German army, but it could be another German-influenced country, or fancy dress.

[Regorian]

Yes, certainly not a strictly British regular uniform. The photo is such poor quality, it's impossible to identify.

He's wearing a pelise the fur lined jacket. The other jacket is called a dolman. He doesn't even look German. I can't think of any British Hussars that wore pelisses by this time. 

Can't help further.