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World War One / Re: What is this man's rank? Can anything else be discerned?
« on: Saturday 30 July 11 13:39 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your replies, everybody. You have all been most helpful. :)

(I have no access to ancestry - too expensive for me)

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World War One / Re: What is this man's rank? Can anything else be discerned?
« on: Saturday 30 July 11 08:31 BST (UK)  »
Here he is again, this time on his bike. Looks like he's a sergeant here. Is there any way of figuring out when he got the promotion?

???


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World War One / Re: What is this man's rank? Can anything else be discerned?
« on: Saturday 30 July 11 08:19 BST (UK)  »
Nice. You have found the same medals card that I thought might be him. Do the stripes on the arm mean that he is a Corporal?

I ordered the medal card on the national archives last night, but was disappointed because it was a poor black and white scan. :(

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World War One / What is this man's rank? Can anything else be discerned?
« on: Friday 29 July 11 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
This is a picture of my grandfather. I am trying to find more information about what he did in the first world war. His name is William Ernest Keeling, and I have been told that he was a despatch rider, used to carry homing pigeons on his bike, and that he was in Fromelles at some point. He was also born in 1885.

Anything that can be gathered from this information and the photo would be most useful.
Thank you, everybody and anybody!

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Armed Forces / Re: What can be said about this mystery military man?
« on: Monday 20 September 10 08:32 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the extra help at the end there, chaps!

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Armed Forces / Re: What can be said about this mystery military man?
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 22:17 BST (UK)  »
Here's as close as I can go on the medal ribbon thing...


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Armed Forces / Re: What can be said about this mystery military man?
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 12:41 BST (UK)  »
Here's the original, so you can see them side by side:


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Armed Forces / Re: What can be said about this mystery military man?
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 12:39 BST (UK)  »
OK, one possibility is that it is this man...
I don't have a better copy of this picture, but I know exactly who it is.
What do you think?

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Armed Forces / Re: What can be said about this mystery military man?
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 10:57 BST (UK)  »
Brilliant!
I'm sure I should be able to figure out who it is in my tree now.

I have two or three candidates. :)

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