Unknown Cap Badge (Completed) & Soldier (Uncompleted) !!

[silvery]

What is the writing on the front of the photograph?  ( I've had a look, it's the name and address of the photographer.)

There is a Charles Henry Sykes b 1876 Lees, any relation?   

[genealogistsykes]

Yeah the writing is just the address of the photographer. See, that's the thing I have no idea if he is any relation. He is not on the family tree.

[mmm45]

There maybe Warwickshire Yeomanry officers groups photos at the museum he maybe on them I'd say Great War earlier than 1916 when the officers started wearing pips on shoulders and agree Boer War medal.

There's a forum member on great war forum who specialises on Warwickshire Yeomanry. Maybe worth posting on there.


Ady

[silvery]

I was wondering if he was a cousin.    Have you got all your G'grandfather's cousins etc ?   

[genealogistsykes]

Yes, I was thinking that he could be a cousin of my g' grandfathers.

He may be the son of Edwin Stanley Sykes (priest) - (1855-1912), I haven't found a marriage for him yet. He wasn't a Catholic Priest meaning that he could of married but i'm not too sure.

The soldier could also be a GREEN? It's a pain in the backside really. Usually they write the name of the person on the back of the photo. I refer to him as ancestor no name.

[genealogistsykes]

It's deffinetly not Rev. Edwin Stanley Sykes or his sisters Lucy Sykes and Kate Sykes seeing as none of married.

[genealogistsykes]

Does he look the same as the person in the photo that I posted at the start?

[genealogistsykes]

It is now 2019, I believe I know who it might be - John Gilbert Gillespie, son of Major-General Robert Rollo Gillespie.  See link below:

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1765714

Gillespie married a cousin, Mabel Sykes, which explains why it's in our possession, and it appears he served in the Warwickshire Yeomanry during the First war.

Success.