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Is this photo reversed?
« on: Monday 27 July 15 17:49 BST (UK) »
Hi
Hope you can help - would you say that this photo has been reversed?  I have been told the medals are on the wrong side. However I think on his belt buckle it says Pioneers, so if the writing is the right way round then so are the medals? Unfortunately the photo is not a very good scan so it's hard to say. Anyone know what regiment he might be with as the badges on his lapels are quite clear?
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Cheshire - TAYLOR, HEAPY, KNOWLES, HAMPSON, CLAYTON, STONIER, PRITCHARD, NADIN, GALLIMORE
Staffs - HEAPY
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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 27 July 15 17:53 BST (UK) »
Shortly after the First World War some widows wore their husband's medals on the right hand side, so I guess the medals probably belong to this man's father.

I'm not sure the practice is officially recognised, especially if you are in uniform.

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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 27 July 15 17:56 BST (UK) »
The lapel badges are Stafford knots, so he would be in a Staffordshire regiment  :)
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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 27 July 15 18:08 BST (UK) »
Just a random thought - did uniform tunics button up that way? (Men usually button left to right). That made me think it was reversed.
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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 27 July 15 18:09 BST (UK) »
It is reversed

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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 July 15 18:22 BST (UK) »
Yes, it is definitely reversed, see it the right way round.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 27 July 15 20:16 BST (UK) »
South Staffordshire Regiment (North Staffs has the Prince of Wales feathers on top)

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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 27 July 15 20:29 BST (UK) »
This could be him...

Anthony Pirdue, Private
Regimental No. 49923
1/5 South Staffordshire Reg.
Medals awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal

Oh, and the medals awarded match the ones in the photo  :D
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Re: Is this photo reversed?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 27 July 15 20:37 BST (UK) »
Here's the same photo and some info about Anthony  ;D

http://www.jacksdale.org.uk/war-memorial/first-world-war-served/pirdue-anthony
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton
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