Can anyone help identify this uniform?

[Neon_strobelight]

I have been sent this photograph from a distant relative asking if I can identify him. I wondered if anyone recognises the uniform and can offer up any information to help.
Many thanks in advance.

[MaxD]

It is a British army uniform of the Great War period but he has most unhelpfully removed his cap badge which would have identified the regiment!

His belt buckle may be identifiable by someone with better eyes and/or photo manipulation skills than I. 

MaxD

[Viktoria]

I agree but why the white belt,I am not aware of the significance.
Perhaps a military musician?
Viktoria.

[barryd]

White Belts existed in rhe British Army.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=British+Military+Dress+White+Belt&FORM=IDINTS

[barryd]

For a guess with no possible backup if there is an image on the belt buckle it may or may not be
Dieu Et Mon Droit

[Viktoria]

I did not dispute that there were white belts in the British Army but personally I have not seen one on any photographs of ordinary infantrymen of  WWI. That is not to say they did not exist.
I also wonder at the swagger stick.

I wondered what the significance might be.
Viktoria.

[MaxD]

A thought - no self respecting soldier would have his photo taken without his cap badge, with the chin strap awry and it was not common to wear the white belt with khaki service dress.

My suggestion is that the man, serving or perhaps even not serving, is imitating, for fun, the entertainer Vesta Tilley (young readers ask your Grandad).  While I can't turn up the exact pose, I'm sure I've seen pics of her looking very much like that.

MaxD

[philipsearching]

A thought - no self respecting soldier would have his photo taken without his cap badge, with the chin strap awry and it was not common to wear the white belt with khaki service dress.

My suggestion is that the man, serving or perhaps even not serving, is imitating, for fun, the entertainer Vesta Tilley (young readers ask your Grandad).  While I can't turn up the exact pose, I'm sure I've seen pics of her looking very much like that.

MaxD

This one?
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-vesta-tilley-english-male-impersonator-1864-1952-57114180.html

That's a brilliant suggestion.

Philip

[Viktoria]

The little tab at the end of the “swagger stick”,if that is what it is looks very like the end of a riding crop but he is holding it the wrong way round which
makes me think is a “bit of a laugh “ photograph.

Which regiments would wear a white belt?
Don’t our ancestors leave mysteries,!
Viktoria.