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Offline Jamie_W75

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Uniform identification please
« on: Friday 09 September 16 23:29 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Can anyone identify which regiment this gentleman might belong to? It says 'Shahen Alexandria' on a cropped part of the photograph if that's of any help?

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Jamie  :)



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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 10 September 16 00:01 BST (UK) »
He may have been in the Indian Army,   and been serving in the City of Alexandria?
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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 10 September 16 00:52 BST (UK) »
According to what I can find out about Shahen, this was a company (Shahen and Co) based in Alexandria. There is at least one pictorial example of a soldier and his family on a photographic postcard with the identifying stamp of Shahen & Co. The info can be found here: http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/forgottenfaces.html

The relevant picture is third from bottom of the page.

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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #3 on: Monday 12 September 16 13:45 BST (UK) »
It is without doubt not the Indian army; but the Royal Berkshire Regiment.  The collar badge is of a Chinese dragon.

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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #4 on: Monday 12 September 16 14:22 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #5 on: Monday 12 September 16 15:24 BST (UK) »
Wow, nice one, Alan!

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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 18:10 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much for the responses, hopefully this goes some way to helping me identify this gentleman. :-)
Woodhouse - Kendal,WES/Galgate,Rochdale,LAN
Hindhaugh - NBL
Copeland - Wexford,IRE / Lothians,SCOT
Vincent - Tivetshall,NFK / Seaton Delaval,NBL
Hamer -  Heywood,LAN
Davidson - Antrim,IRE / Lothians,SCOT
Wright - Kirkaldy,FIF
Bateman - Ohio,USA / Seaton Delaval,NBL
Bamford - Rochdale,LAN
Heath - Prees,Wem,Weston,SAL / Rochdale,LAN
Comerford - Cavan,IRE / Lothians,SCOT
Hopper - Gosforth,NBL
Scobbie - Lanarkshire,SCOT /North Tyneside,NBL
Miles - Pulham,NFK
Grundy - DUR

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Re: Uniform identification please
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 15 September 16 16:33 BST (UK) »
Is the 1920 plus time frame about right?  None of the Royal Berkshire battalions were in Egypt in the Great War but 1st Battalion were sent to Iraq in 1920 and then India in 1921 making a stop-over in Egypt a possibility.

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 15 September 16 16:47 BST (UK) »
2nd/4th Battalion were in Egypt from May 1919 until September 1919, sent to guard Turkish POWs and help with civil unrest.

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