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Re: Uniform identification
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 01 August 18 07:45 BST (UK) »
Does anyone recognise this uniform?

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Re: Uniform identification
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 01 August 18 07:50 BST (UK) »
Yes he is a Royal Engineer in tropical dress so Middle East or India.

The RE on is shoulder confirms it.  The picture is typical WW1.

The Foreign Service Helmet has his cap badge on which is unusual as most units wore nothing or a cloth patch.

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Re: Uniform identification
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 01 August 18 09:50 BST (UK) »
As well as the Middle East and India South Africa is another possibility.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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