Joseph Audley in possibly a US Naval Uniform

[Deesider]

Hi Can any body help,

I believe that the attached photograph is of a Joseph Audley, who arrived in the USA in November 1923 and died in Boston in 1930.

Can anybody advise whether he is wearing a US naval uniform of the period and please ignore the mobile phone in the image!!!

Regards
The Wirral Way

[japeflakes]

no phone but no date either

[Deesider]

japeflakes,
Many thanks for your improved image.

Regards
The Wirral Way

[Treetotal]

I may be wrong but I always associate the white sailors hat with the US Navy, my Father was in the navy during WW2 and his hat was dark.
Carol

[oldohiohome]

If you Google "US Navy 1925 hat image", or replace the year with WWI or WWII you will get an idea of what the US caps looked like. All look familiar to me, raised in the US, and do not look like the hat in your picture of Joseph Audley.

I associate the style of his hat with some other country, but I just can't place which. If you can rule out the UK,then maybe it was Canada or Australia, I don't know.

Someone on this board will know for sure, the answers to UK military questions that I read here amaze me.

[q98]

Cap is neither UK nor Australian. IF it is USN, try googling   Cracker Jack Dixie Cup Military Cap

[oldohiohome]

Maybe it is a US hat of some kind. a few like it came back with those searches I suggested earlier, but not exactly.
Here is one that looks similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_R._Ward;h92309.jpg

but the text with the picture says that the cap always had the wearer's ship's name or station on it, until 1941
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_of_the_United_States_Navy

searching the photo via Google images didn't help.

[ShaunJ]

Looks like US Navy to me. Compare this photo of Humphrey Bogart in uniform in 1918

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3820/9210017001_92d109620c_o.jpg

[Jebber]

Here is another US one from WW1.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ww1-rppc-sailor-men-uniforms-navy-1875035286