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Offline Rachel Morris

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Dating an old Military photo
« on: Sunday 18 November 18 04:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi I have this old photo, obtained from my Nan's photo album. A few years before her death she labelled all her photos and I have been compiling the family history. However this one was labled "Not sure". So the facts I have about this photo .... It is someone from my Nan's family, it appears to be military? and foreign (pith helmets).
I have photos of her grandma but none of her grandfather. He served in the military - in the Royal Artillery and served in India and Afghanistan but came out of the military in 1889 so I suspect that would be too early for a photo?
However I had wondered if it could be him? Dating may help me.
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Re: Dating an old Military photo
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 November 18 08:43 GMT (UK) »
I have photos of soldiers similarly dressed taken in South Africa in 1911-1916.
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: Dating an old Military photo
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 November 18 19:58 GMT (UK) »
I notice a woman in this dressed late Edwardian.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Dating an old Military photo
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 18 November 18 21:08 GMT (UK) »
Wow Jim - good observation!!    :D

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Dating an old Military photo
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 25 November 18 07:59 GMT (UK) »
Jim and Wiggy .... I seriously must be blind! Where?
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Re: Dating an old Military photo
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 25 November 18 08:24 GMT (UK) »
Back row, third from right!   ;)

Wiggy
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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