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I need help identifying the regiment and rank of two soldiers. Plus one other group.

The first is my great-uncle Edward Wisby. The photo shows him sitting with three pals. He is the one bottom left. I think he may have been in the army after WWII into the early 1920s so this may date from that period.

The second is of my great-grandmother's brother James Higgins. He was a professional soldier just before WWI. I believe he was in the South Wales Borderers, 2nd Battalion but if anyone can verify this from the photos I would be grateful. He is pictured with a group, he is in the back row, 7th from the left. The back indicates that it was sent from Gravesend, Essex.

The last photo may be connected to the same regiment as James Higgins but I'm not sure. It shows a group of army cooks in their whites and all it says is on the front is three names followed by 8th Battery Cook Houses and Dining Halls. The back shows that it was probably taken in the Preston area.

I have listed them all separately. Any information will be gratefully received.

After many years of searching I discovered the birth name of my great-grandfather and his brother who both had a different surname from all their siblings (born in 1888 and 1889). Their birth certificates shows their father's occupation as a butler.

I hoped that this would lead to more information but all we know of him is his name and occupation - George Bloomfield, butler and the two addresses where they lived at the time in Chelsea in Marylebone. He is not on the census at either of these addresses in 1881 or 1891.

The parents never married and I don't know his age, so I am a bit stuck. All I know is that when the mother married in 1892 she said she was a widow and married under his name. So he had presumably died but no one of the name George Bloomfield of the right age died in that area where they were living or anywhere in London.

I understood that butlers usually worked and lived in the same household and were usually single (or if they were married it was to a servant in the same household). In my case he appears to be living at home with his family but working elsewhere.

Does anyone know if you had to join an organisation when you become a butler and did you have to pass any kind of text or exam? Are there any records?

Can anyone think of any other way I can find out more about my great-great grandfather?

Thanks, I have just re-posted it in the Army section. Is it okay to leave it in both sections?

This is a photograph of my great-grandmother's second husband David John Jeremy. He was born in Shoreditch in 1877 and died in Hackney in 1954. He is in Army uniform but we are sure it pre-dates WWI, probably between 1901 and 1912.

There is nothing written on the photo or the back so we don't know the date. It measures approx 5 x 7 inches.

Can anyone identify the regiment from the style of the uniform and the buttons?