Unknown Regiment can anybody help?

[scrimnet]

Hi David, I think this uniform is defo around that period, and it should hopefully be the SUFFOLK & NORFOLK YEOMANRY, Their badge has two towers to the castle and a crown in the center. Posted a pic I whipped from the site, accidently mind you, hope this helps.

The pic you have "purloined" is a modern one...ER...Elizabeth Regina! All the bits in the pic show no signs of cavalry

This is an infantry uniform and most deffo Suffolk Regt...The shoulder title is embroidered 

[lowanslow]

Yes scrim abso right there, it is Elizabath R., one would have thought that I did not know the difference, shocking, what, what.  Getting confused again, with all the badges and regiments. Yeos, Hussars and cannon fodder. I now have found two types of Suffolk badges, one with two towers and with three. Blinded sir blinded I was. 

[scrimnet]

Yes scrim abso right there, it is Elizabath R., one would have thought that I did not know the difference, shocking, what, what.  Getting confused again, with all the badges and regiments. Yeos, Hussars and cannon fodder. I now have found two types of Suffolk badges, one with two towers and with three. Blinded sir blinded I was. 

Then lay off the gin and sign the pledge!!

Self inflicted injuries are not an excuse...

[scrimnet]

Although the War Office "standardised" the Gib castle in 1898 to a x3 tower design, examples of the x2 tower design can be seen as late as 1913 on Suffolk uniforms!

[lowanslow]

Lay off the gin, sir, lay off the gin, Never sir, correct me as you only can Sir, but never ask me to lay off the Gin Sir, my Gods what is the world coming to, lay off the gin. Mind you on a serious note, all of this trying to find this badge and that badge will be ending shortly. More is the pity, I was going to try and say something really good here, I choked big style. Cheeers scrim.

[PrueM]

What era do you think the photo is?

Could it be the 1860's or 1870's?

David

Hi David,

Excuse me for "pushing in" on an Armed Forces thread (where usually I know less than nothing!) but the photo would date from the 1910s or 1920s.  The experts might be able to tell exactly when from the style of the uniform - I can tell from the fact that this is a postcard format, and the look of the photo 

Cheers
Prue

[scrimnet]

As I said Pru, betwixt 1898 and the latest date the "Two Towers" were seen on a Suffolk uniform, 1913...

[PrueM]

Well, that's me telt! 

The postcard format would narrow that down to 1902-1913 (and probably towards the latter end of that range by the looks).

Cheers
Prue

[Cookie567]

Hi,

Cap badge and collars are Suffolk Regt. If you could do a close up of his belt buckle and cap badge and determine whether the crown on either is the more angular Victorian pattern, or the more rounded post-1901 Imperial crown (otherwise referred to as "King's crown" and worn 1902-52), that should clinch it.

Regards,

Pete