Please identify uniforms - Photo now attached

[neil1821]

Completed? Hold on a sec, you've had one person's opinion so far (who's already changed his mind once). 
The only real answer we can give is that there's not enough definition in the photos to be able to identify the badges with any confidence. Any guesses are just that, guesses. And for what it's worth I can't agree with the Yorkshires and Warwickshires based on the shapes we see.

[veeblevort]

hi neil1821,

I hope I have not given offence.

I was concerned from the beginning that the image
was of poor quality, and comments made reinforced
my thought that it is indeed inadequate for the
purpose of confident and accurate opinions.

With this in mind I thought it best to close the
post to save other people spending time on it.

The exercise was nevertheless helpful in a way,
because it has encouraged me to consider other
approaches, instead of fixing on one idea.

I am sorry to have wasted people's time.

[maidmarianoops]

do not think you have given offence this site is a massive learning curve.
none of it is time wasted


sylvia
known as oops

[lowanslow]

Dear veeblevort, there can never be any offence, I am puppy on this site but find I love to try and help, so many of the cap badges were so similar, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish them from one another, but that is the joy of this site. So many people are kind enough to get stuck in and try to help, But it seems though the only one who has had a moan has not contributed a idea to what the badges could be, and the dig is directed to me, but would the person hazard a guess at what they could be? You have not wasted any time, not when you are looking for the truth.

[maidmarianoops]

1901 census
Clark George 22 Gunner Gunner Royal Field Artillery Army Officer
Sheffield Yorkshire Trowbridge Artillery Barracks Trowbridge Wiltshire

could this be him

there are a lot of george clarks my dad among them

sylvia

still looking

[veeblevort]

Thanks lowanslow and Sylvia.

Sylvia,thank you also for looking at George,
but he now looks like a false lead. I have asked
around the family. No photo of him available,
or service number, but he was discharged with
wounds in mid 1916. I can't imagine him
attending his wedding in uniform a year and
a half later.

[lowanslow]

Hi veeblevort, hope you dont mind, but I have searched through the Medal card index and have come up with a few names for you to chew over, if he was in the Gloucestershire's, here are the names so far.

George H Clark Gloucestershire Regiment 15354
George Thomas Clark Gloucestershire Regt 201808
George E Clark  Gloucestershire Regiment 7217

I am just hoping he had a middle name. I have some names for the R. berks and warks as well, if you think it could help.
I dont think he would have left the army if he was patched up, he may have been shifted depending upon his status to different work but he would have stayed with the colours till the end of hostilities.

[veeblevort]

Hi lowanslow,

That is kind of you. Thanks very much. I'll look at those records.

Since I've started on this topic, I realise I haven't put together
the background knowledge I ought to have done. For example, if he
was still with the colours, would he need permission to marry, or
would he have to notify the Army of a change in next of kin, and
should I expect to see a note of the marriage on his service
papers? I really need to read up on the subject if I want to make
a decent attempt at it.

Happy New Year to you if we don't speak again today.

[lowanslow]

He would have had to ask for permission to marry, which would have been recorded in his service record (if it exists) as his wife would have become the next of kin. Once my uncle gave me the names of our family members it became so frustrating trying to find info about them, as most of the records were destroyed in ww2, I have only come across one set for one of my family members at the moment. not holding out mush hope for the others, and still digging up family members from my dad's side ( not literely of course) think I found his records, anyway, if its worth doing its worth tearing your hair out over, Happy New Year.