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Title: What regiment ?
Post by: jrc11 on Tuesday 20 January 15 11:32 GMT (UK)
This is Henry George Parsons, b 1879 @ Weston Super Mare. He was living in Bristol when he joined up in WW1. The picture is obviously a studio setting and is a copy. I do not have the original. Is it possible to identify the regiment?
Thank you
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: apwright on Tuesday 20 January 15 15:39 GMT (UK)
Looks to me like the Army Cyclist Corps.

Adrian
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: jess5athome on Tuesday 20 January 15 15:42 GMT (UK)
Hi, I have to agree, Army Cyclist Corps.
Can you make out what letters are on the shoulder titles?

Frank.
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: genechaser on Tuesday 20 January 15 17:44 GMT (UK)
http://www.intriguing-history.com/army-cyclist-corps-cap-badge/
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: jrc11 on Wednesday 21 January 15 13:50 GMT (UK)
Thank you for your suggestions. However I remain to be convinced as the badge in Henry's photo has a straight bar at the base whereas the badge in Genechaser's picture has 3 separate bars. Are there any other possibilities?
Thanks
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: km1971 on Wednesday 21 January 15 16:33 GMT (UK)
Guards Machine Gun Corps is similar.

Ken
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: jess5athome on Wednesday 21 January 15 17:22 GMT (UK)
Upon enlarging the photo, it does look to be more solid in the center, not convinced with Guards Machine Gun Corps,  :-\ But as Ken rightly say's they are similar in design.

http://www.regimentalbadges.com/upload/images/shopprod/guards-machine-gun-regiment-cap-badge_10358_main_size3.jpg

Frank
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 21 January 15 17:38 GMT (UK)
I'm pretty sure it's Cyclist Corps. The scrolls to left and right go up at around 45 degrees. The "straight bar" is the middle scroll.
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: John915 on Thursday 22 January 15 22:55 GMT (UK)
Good evening,

I think it's possibly the Dorset Yeomanry.

Also similar are the City of London Sharpshooters and City of London Yeomanry.

John915
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: barryd on Thursday 22 January 15 23:56 GMT (UK)
Possibly the photograph was taken at the same time he became a Corporal. The stripes look new!
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: alan o on Monday 26 January 15 15:44 GMT (UK)
Its not the modern Dorset Yeo badge as it was designed 80 years too late for WW1 and is a red herring.

It's the cyclists.
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: jrc11 on Sunday 10 January 21 11:21 GMT (UK)
Revisiting this and now having access to the Ancestry Library service I have found a pension record where the service number, 36614 matches the one on his grave in NZ. Date & place of residence also match. It shows he was in the East Yorkshire regiment. Further search found he was admitted to the 51st field hospital on 31/3/1918. His number is incorrectly recorded as 36414. I do not have access to the full pension record. Is it worth subscribing to get it? Any comments gratefully appreciated.
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: alan o on Sunday 10 January 21 11:35 GMT (UK)
He may have transferred from/into the East Yorks but that is not the East Yorkshire Cap badge.

The shoulder title is quite short with a slight curve - Cyclists possibly - where as the East Yorkshire had a larger curved EYORKSHIRE with a more pronounced curved shape.
Title: Re: What regiment ?
Post by: ShaunJ on Sunday 10 January 21 12:12 GMT (UK)
Per the medal rolls (which do not show prior service in the Army Cyclist Corps for 36614 Henry G Parsons), soldiers numbered 36607 to 36613 had all served in the Army Cyclist Corps.