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« on: Sunday 09 August 09 22:24 BST (UK) »
Can anyone identifier my dads uniform please....if its any help he was in Essex at the time.
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Re: uniform identifier
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 29 April 12 21:14 BST (UK) »
The first photo was taken in Epping and am sure after the War, the next two was taken in Groenplaats in Antwerp after the British Army liberated the city in Sep 1944 and I find this out only in the last few weeks, am still looking for his regiment, something tells me it maybe Essex Regiment but am not sure if they were out there, so still need help on this one if anyone knows what regiments were out there in and around Sep 1944 please let me know.
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Re: uniform identifier
« Reply #2 on: Monday 30 April 12 08:28 BST (UK) »
The soldier with the beret on with the rifle over his shoulder looks like he is wearing the cap badge of either the 11th Hussars or the Leicester Yeomanry, I say "looks like" because it is not clear enough to identify properly, There is a brigade or divisional sign on the sleeve of the person at the front of the bike that looks like a bursting grenade, I can't find a similar one for either Infantry or Armoured Brigades.

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Re: uniform identifier
« Reply #3 on: Monday 30 April 12 11:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks James I did scan the photo again at 1200 that's the highish I can go, but it wasn't any better its very hard to see the badge's, there seems to be more then one regiment in the photo, I have downloaded maps from WW2 showing what regiment's were out there a week or so before liberation, so when I have had time to look at them carefully maybe I'll come up with something to go on.
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Re: uniform identifier
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 08 May 12 11:31 BST (UK) »
It could be Royal Pioneer Corps....
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 08 May 12 11:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: anthonygos on Sunday 29 April 12 21:14 BST (UK)
The first photo was taken in Epping and am sure after the War, the next two was taken in Groenplaats in Antwerp after the British Army liberated the city in Sep 1944 and I find this out only in the last few weeks, am still looking for his regiment, something tells me it maybe Essex Regiment but am not sure if they were out there, so still need help on this one if anyone knows what regiments were out there in and around Sep 1944 please let me know.

Deffo not Essex....One can never surmise that the county of origin relates to the Regt of joining! ;) ;D
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Re: uniform identifier
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 08 May 12 15:46 BST (UK) »
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Deffo not Essex....One can never surmise that the county of origin relates to the Regt of joining!
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I was only thinking about that because his father-in-law was in the Middlesex Regt, like you say you can never tell...!
thanks for your response.
Dover/Moore/Gostling/Long/Lloyd/Crabb in Epping Essex and in Middlesex
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