more help with another photo please

[Sam Spade]

This is going to be too tricky I think due to not much info on my great granddad's uniform in fact the only clue is his cap badge and I can't see what it is!

[kyt]

That looks like a Royal Artillery badge



K

[Sam Spade]

Thank you

[scrimnet]

And he has a mounted pattern greatcoat on and is carrying a crop...

[Rochdalian]

Sounds a bit stupid I know but it looks like two badges to me!!!

Bob

[Sam Spade]

Does a mounted pattern greatcoat and a crop mean he's in the artillery? This is so fustrating can't find anything on him and he has an unusual middle name I though it would have been easy!
Bob-he wouldn't have had two badges on his cap would he????I know nothing about WW1

[mmm45]

His rank if he was mounted would possibly be Driver  in either Royal Field Artillery(RFA) or Royal Garrison Artillery(RGA)
Do you have a name to help you out?

Ady

[old rowley]

Morning Sam,

Riding crop and mounted pattern greatcoat would indicate that he was from a mounted regiment but it is his cap badge that confirms the regiment and as kyt has already said it is an R.A. cap badge. He is also wearing a "gor blimey" service cap which has ear flaps so it can be dated as having been taken after 1915 as that was the year that this type of headwear was introduced. What was his full name as some one may be able to help in searching for him.

old rowley

[scrimnet]

There is but one badge on his hat, and most deffo a RA one...The one that Kyt has posted is somewhat squashed to a "normal" one...

As for being mounted within the RA there is nothing wrong with that at all!
The British Army in WW1 relied most heavily on horses, and ammunition, food fodder, in fact everything!

It wasn't just the RHA that had horses, and somebody had to drive them!!!