unknown couple35

[bleckie]

Hi All

The attached photo was found in old suit case of photos and documents belonging to a cousin of mine and neither of us can identify who the couple is.
I am looking for any details on the photo that may give us a clue as to who they were.
thanking you.

Yours Aye
BruceL

[ShaunJ]

Royal Field Artillery - an Acting Bombardier or Lance Bombardier

[bleckie]

Hi Shaun

Have you any idea of the date?

Yours Aye
BruceL

[Regorian]

What a superb photograph. And a pistol too.

[bleckie]

Hi
That's what surprised me the fact that he is sitting in a photographers studio with a pistol on his belt. Why would the lanyard for the pistol be wrapped around the pistol grip.

Yours Aye
BruceL

[ShaunJ]

Have you any idea of the date?

I'd say it was circa 1914.

the fact that he is sitting in a photographers studio with a pistol on his belt. Why would the lanyard for the pistol be wrapped around the pistol grip

I was wondering if the pistol was a photographer's prop.

[Viktoria]

I am not sure, I wondered if it was taken before the young man was posted
  abroad, 1914 war .A family souvenir.
It would be interesting to know if he came through.
The young woman is very plainly dressed, not even a jacket or hat.
 A lovely clear photo..Viktoria.

[suzi600]

could he be the one who puts the animals out of their misery ?

just a thought

[macintosh]

I think he is a mounted soldier, it looks like he has riding breeches on perhaps he is a driver, when the pistol was not in use the pistol lanyard would be wound round the grip so it could be holstered without the lanyard causing a hindrance.
Artlllery Batteries were issued with Webley pistols and of nearly half a million horse and mules killed in ww1 many  wounded animals were humanely despatched by pistol.

James