Army band photo - identity?

[Stevie b]

Help required to identify Army Band. Originally believed to be SLI, but i am not sure that it is!

Has anyone got any ideas?

[O1dgobbo]

Hi

Their cap badges are not Somerset Light Infantry.  There is a coat of arms on the drum and possibly some writing.  One of the photo tweaking experts may be able to bring the detail up - I am not clever enough but I can see a quartered oval shield supported left side by a beast, whose head is obscured, and right side by a horse or perhaps a unicorn.

Good luck

Gobbo

[neil1821]

I think we need to see a blow-up of one of the cap badges 

A territorial unit?

[Stevie b]

Hi O1dgobbo
 
Thanks for the quick reply and your observations they may help in identifying the band.

Stevie b

[O1dgobbo]

The cap badges enlarge to blobs

[O1dgobbo]

P.S.  You can see a Somerset Light Infantry cap badge at

http://www.arbeia.demon.co.uk/srs/collect/badges/infantry/inf_d/50150a.htm

[Stevie b]

Hi neil1821
 
I am attaching a small area showing the clearest cap badge.

[neil1821]

On first glance I'd say something like the Suffolk regiment.
http://www.suffolkregiment.org/

I don't know if you have the original photo Stevie, but by blow-up I mean a rescan at the highest reolution you can manage. As you've found, enlarging an existing image doesn't work!

 

[old rowley]

I would agree with Neil as this being a Suffolk cap badge

old rowley