Canada's ?? Own

[Forguette]

Hi,
On another board we are trying to decipher writing on back of a photo of a soldier, but nothing makes sense. Trying to look at it from another perspective, mainly that there could be shorthand used which names a regt. Would you folks please take a look see if it makes any sense along the lines of Can --- own meaning Canada/Canadian --- Own.
Better scan posted at bottom of thread, OP unwilling to post actual picture. So unsure of uniform.
Thanks.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=850653.0

[CaroleW]

There are 3 pages of replies on the other thread so why a new post?

[Gadget]

There are 3 pages of replies on the other thread so why a new post?

I was wondering the same thing, Carole.

The OP (liverbirds)  has said that she isn't able to show the image on the front of the card so it would be difficult to work out what regiment the soldier served in.

Gadget

[CaroleW]

I have asked the moderator to merge the posts

[Forguette]

I apologise if I've breached some standard/regulation.
My intention was to get an army expert's opinion on abbreviations for Canadian Regiments. I figured being army buffs, they may not bother reading handwriting deciphering boards. And I wanted their opinions. I thought this was the proper way to do it. And I thought I had merged the posts, by providing the link. Apparently I was wrong. So how should I have achieved this? Please tell me so that I can follow procedure if I find myself in this situation again? How do you alert users of one forum to a post on another forum?

[Forguette]

[quote author=Gadget

The OP (liverbirds)  has said that she isn't able to show the image on the front of the card so it would be difficult to work out what regiment the soldier served in.

Gadget
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to work out the regiment, I was trying to make some sense out of the words. Nothing that had been suggested made sense.

[majm]

I apologise if I've breached some standard/regulation.
My intention was to get an army expert's opinion on abbreviations for Canadian Regiments. I figured being army buffs, they may not bother reading handwriting deciphering boards. And I wanted their opinions. I thought this was the proper way to do it. And I thought I had merged the posts, by providing the link. Apparently I was wrong. So how should I have achieved this? Please tell me so that I can follow procedure if I find myself in this situation again? How do you alert users of one forum to a post on another forum?

On the main thread there is a further image of the writing.  The first word is Can and it does not seem to be an abbreviation for Canada. 

I am not an army buff, but I have posted many times on Armed Forces boards.

I  don't have specialised software to strip away layers or invert b/w to w/b, but I often stroll through the Decipher board and the photography board.

So I don't see why you considered starting a thread on the Armed Forces board, when the original poster has sought help in deciphering words on the postcard.  Yes, there is the WWI connection in the script and likely in the photo on the other side, but ...

I am not sure if you have broken rules but it makes sense to me to keep everything together in the one thread.  If our OP wanted it moved to Armed Forces, then, to me, they could ask a moderator to move the thread, rather than start a new one.

So, as RChatters we are not restricted to navigating just 1 board, and as we can easily read through all the topic headings for new threads across  all the boards, there's not a lot to be gained for any of us to start a  new thread on a different board without first at least checking with the main thread's OP.

JM

[Gadget]

I put 'Canadian Regiments in WW1' into Google and brought up lots of links. Here's one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infantry_battalions_in_the_Canadian_Expeditionary_Force