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What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« on: Sunday 09 April 23 13:32 BST (UK) »
Hi  fellow detectives.
I have a great Uncle in this picture at a wedding presumably in 1920s or 1930s with a chap in Uniform with 2 stripes so a corporal but what is the uniform army? Airforce? help please!!
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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 09 April 23 14:02 BST (UK) »
Royal Airforce.
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: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 09 April 23 14:15 BST (UK) »
I'm not an expert, but my first thought was RAF too.

Also, my general impression is that it's more like the 1950s (or late 40s?) than the 1920s or 30s that you suggested, but I haven't done any detailed comparison with photo dating guides.
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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 09 April 23 15:07 BST (UK) »
I agree that the uniform is RAF, and would suggest that the photo is late 1940s due to the medal ribbon bar on the man's uniform.

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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 09 April 23 15:15 BST (UK) »
I'd agree with RAF corporal and late 40s or early 50s RAF by the medal ribbons. I can't quite make them out but I think they are probably mostly WW2 campaign and general service medals inclding the 1939-45 Star. One may be the Air Crew Europe Star.

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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 09 April 23 17:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Folks

Thanks for the info. I think you are right to think late 40s rather than my first thought of 20's or 30's The old guy Uncle Willie died in 1950 and the ladies clothes are sort of wartime or soon after when rationing I suppose might have been in force. Now I have to find who was in the RAF? presumably the brides husband.
thanks again for the input

Jim
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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 29 April 23 15:00 BST (UK) »
I would agree with late 1940s, the bride's dress looks like it was made from parachute silk, very much like my MIL's wedding gown which was also made from parachute silk in 1944. The older chap shares similar features to the bride. The bride is on the left and the groom is on the right I would say.
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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 29 April 23 18:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: farmeroman on Sunday 09 April 23 15:15 BST (UK)
I'd agree with RAF corporal and late 40s or early 50s RAF by the medal ribbons. I can't quite make them out but I think they are probably mostly WW2 campaign and general service medals inclding the 1939-45 Star. One may be the Air Crew Europe Star.

He has no brevet, no even a half one. He wouldnt have the ACE star sadly
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Re: What uniform is this Corporal wearing.
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 30 April 23 14:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: scrimnet on Saturday 29 April 23 18:02 BST (UK)
Quote from: farmeroman on Sunday 09 April 23 15:15 BST (UK)
I'd agree with RAF corporal and late 40s or early 50s RAF by the medal ribbons. I can't quite make them out but I think they are probably mostly WW2 campaign and general service medals inclding the 1939-45 Star. One may be the Air Crew Europe Star.

He has no brevet, no even a half one. He wouldnt have the ACE star sadly

Good point - I've just checked my father's photos and he is wearing an AG (Air Gunner) half brevet on his F/Sgt uniform.

Does this mean that the person in the photo must have been ground crew?

Also, can you ID any of the medal ribbons? Assuming that he actually served during the war I assume that they would include the 1939-45 Star and/or the Defence medal and the War Medal. My father served in Coastal Command in the Indian Ocean from 1943-1945 and earned those three, although he didn't claim them until about 1990.
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