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Armed Forces / Re: Cap Badge-Which Light Infantry Regiment and What Year?
« on: Monday 29 June 09 18:37 BST (UK) »
Hello all and thank you for your responses.
I'm not sure if my grandfather went to the University of Oxford - I'm still discovering things about him but it's painstaking as both my father and my grandmother (Thomas Herbert's wife) are dead and I have no paternal aunts or uncles. My father lost touch with his great aunts and uncles, most of whom would be dead by now anyway. Thomas Herbert Williamson himself died in 1970, before I was even born.
Thank you for confirming the Ox & Bucks regiment and I highly doubt that he would have been commissioned from ranks given his age, if indeed this photo dates before 1920 as the vulcanised rubber buttons suggest (oh how I'm learning! )
Please could someone tell me what the Army List is, what information would it give me and where would be best to request a lookup?
My DH had an idea - maybe he was conscripted as an officer but been conscripted too late to serve and hence no medal index card. His birthday was July 1900 so this could be plausible.
I will ask on the 1914-1918 forum about the "C" badge.
Thank you all again so far for your kind help.
Jules
I'm not sure if my grandfather went to the University of Oxford - I'm still discovering things about him but it's painstaking as both my father and my grandmother (Thomas Herbert's wife) are dead and I have no paternal aunts or uncles. My father lost touch with his great aunts and uncles, most of whom would be dead by now anyway. Thomas Herbert Williamson himself died in 1970, before I was even born.
Thank you for confirming the Ox & Bucks regiment and I highly doubt that he would have been commissioned from ranks given his age, if indeed this photo dates before 1920 as the vulcanised rubber buttons suggest (oh how I'm learning! )
Please could someone tell me what the Army List is, what information would it give me and where would be best to request a lookup?
My DH had an idea - maybe he was conscripted as an officer but been conscripted too late to serve and hence no medal index card. His birthday was July 1900 so this could be plausible.
I will ask on the 1914-1918 forum about the "C" badge.
Thank you all again so far for your kind help.
Jules