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Military Band Identification please
« on: Friday 28 March 08 15:06 GMT (UK) »
Help please!!!

Can anyone identify the approximate date and regiment for this military band? Photo found in a box of old postcards. If I can ID it I can perhaps find someone whose relative may be in it.

Many thanks, Josey
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #1 on: Friday 28 March 08 15:45 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Not much chance of an ID at that scale I'm afraid!  :(

If you can rescan at a high resolution then we might pick up some clues.
Even an ultra high resolution scan just of one of the caps would help.
The cap badge identifies the regiment, but at the moment I can only see a white spot.

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Name interests: Boulton, Murrell, Lock, Croxton, Skinner, Blewett, Tonkin, Trathen.
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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 28 March 08 16:08 GMT (UK) »
Point taken!!! Thanks very much for trying.

I have made a higher resolution scan & selected the best badges but I fear that the original postcard image may not have enough detail on it to be able to be identified.

Josey
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #3 on: Friday 28 March 08 16:18 GMT (UK) »
Much better!
We have a fair chance of an ID now I'd say, or at least to limit it to a few possibles  :)
8-pointed star with crown abov.  Army Service Corps perhaps?
Name interests: Boulton, Murrell, Lock, Croxton, Skinner, Blewett, Tonkin, Trathen.
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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #4 on: Friday 28 March 08 16:24 GMT (UK) »
Certainly a possibility; thanks.

And a couple more scans...
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #5 on: Friday 28 March 08 18:22 GMT (UK) »
Any chance of a high def scan of the bass drum pse???

That should seal anything.

I would say that this band is far too small for the ASC band...but is could be the Cpls and below playing for the Sgts mess...

One of the badges looks like it could be ASC...

It is around 1915/6...
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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #6 on: Friday 28 March 08 18:28 GMT (UK) »
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Any chance of a high def scan of the bass drum pse???

That should seal anything
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Good idea! Why didn't I think of that?  ;D
Name interests: Boulton, Murrell, Lock, Croxton, Skinner, Blewett, Tonkin, Trathen.
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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #7 on: Friday 28 March 08 18:30 GMT (UK) »
No sooner said than done....

Bumper wheeze chaps!

Josey
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Military Band Identification please
« Reply #8 on: Friday 28 March 08 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Well that painting is in rag order!!!

I wouldn't have it on my parade!!!

Well it is ASC, no other badge has that laurel configuration...


Still reckon its a small ensemble for the Sgts Mess though...No full screws or Sgts present...Just Ptes and Lance Jacks...
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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