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Title: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Yogiyo1 on Monday 15 October 18 17:53 BST (UK)
Can anyone help me identify the army regiment in this photo?

Have come across it recently in a box of family photos (husband's side) and would really like to know who in the family met King George VI! I can't easily place any of the faces to a member of his family.

Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 15 October 18 18:04 BST (UK)
What a lovely photo to have  :o
Carol
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Yogiyo1 on Monday 15 October 18 18:06 BST (UK)
 ;D
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 16 October 18 23:56 BST (UK)
Is there anything written on the back?
Carol
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ainslie on Wednesday 17 October 18 13:28 BST (UK)
All appear to be officers, and no medals are visible, apart from H.M.  Kilts point to a Highland regiment.  Someone might know the tartan/sett, and the distinctive tam o shanters or bonnets.  Two officers in service dress with Sam Browne belts could be from a Guards regiment and part of a royal escort.
A
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 17 October 18 13:49 BST (UK)
The hackle (plume on the bonnet) appears to be distinctive, looking to be white over a darker colour.

That suggests, to me, Highland Light Infantry?
Theirs is white over red.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ainslie on Wednesday 17 October 18 14:01 BST (UK)
HLI were highlanders but wore trews rather than the kilt.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Regorian on Wednesday 17 October 18 14:32 BST (UK)
The new battledress points to c1940. Are Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret there? Obviously, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother to us is there.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 17 October 18 15:46 BST (UK)
Princess Margaret looks around 15 in the photo, which suggests it was taken circa 1945.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 17 October 18 15:58 BST (UK)
There's a list here of different regiments and their hackles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackle

Perhaps a defunct regiment?
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ABradley on Wednesday 17 October 18 16:39 BST (UK)
In the photo the beret is swept over to the left of the head and the hackle is on the right.
I'm not an expert but I think this is not the normal style of dress?

Some of them are armed. Would this happen only in wartime?
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 17 October 18 16:59 BST (UK)
Cracked it. Irish Regiment of Canada. Sandringham, 8 August 1943.

More photos here (a little way down the page):  http://pipesforfreedom.com/webtxt/0515THE_IRISH_REGIMENT_OF_CANADA.htm

Notably  http://pipesforfreedom.com/images/051518Irish-royalty-01.jpg

and http://pipesforfreedom.com/images/051519Irish-royalty-02.jpg
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 17 October 18 17:06 BST (UK)
Another one from the same photo shoot:

https://pier21.ca/sites/default/files/walls/service/docimage000000028.jpg

(From https://pier21.ca/walls/Service/Pte-Charles-Joseph-Lutton)
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Regorian on Wednesday 17 October 18 17:08 BST (UK)
Well done.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 17 October 18 17:09 BST (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Wednesday 17 October 18 16:59 BST (UK)
Cracked it. Irish Regiment of Canada. Sandringham, 8 August 1943.

More photos here (a little way down the page):  http://pipesforfreedom.com/webtxt/0515THE_IRISH_REGIMENT_OF_CANADA.htm

Notably  http://pipesforfreedom.com/images/051518Irish-royalty-01.jpg

and http://pipesforfreedom.com/images/051519Irish-royalty-02.jpg

Wow....great work Shaun  8)....I had to raise this as I knew you would eventually have the answer.

Carol
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 17 October 18 17:15 BST (UK)
The tartan was the key. It's very distinctive.
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: ainslie on Wednesday 17 October 18 17:17 BST (UK)
Great sleuthing.  Most of us would have been well off the mark.
A
Title: Re: Help with regiment identification
Post by: Yogiyo1 on Friday 19 October 18 10:25 BST (UK)
Wow!!! Thank you so, so much for all your help. This is wonderful.   :)

Now just have to work out where the family connection is! ;)