Not sure who this is!

[Tickettyboo]

possible?
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=535013

Boo

[Tickettyboo]

and another possible
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=535025

EDIT added

A quick look through this one seems to show he was originally assigned to the 30th and then to the 16h, but you'd need to wait for someone who is more au fait with military records to interpret it correctly

Boo

[AllanUK]

KN said I attach the best close up of the cap badge that I can manage - I don't think that it's the same as the images that have already been kindly attached.
-- this close up shows that at the time of the photo being taken, this man was in the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the CEF Regiment of

[AllanUK]

KN said I think that Philip took part in the Boer War --- he served as Lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (image courtesy of Ancestry)

[AllanUK]

KN -- can you scan a close up of his collar badges - there may be a hint of the regiment that he was with.

Bit of a daft question, but is there anything written / printed on the back of the photograph?

Thank you

[mmm45]

https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/insignia/brookerpdfs/Part%2012%20CEF%20badges%2027%20-%2035.pdf

Its the 2nd BC Regiment the cap badge is a proto type and was withdrawn
Scroll to just after 30th Batt and you'll see it
its on the attached PDF link-
Knew id seen a great CEF resource years ago and this is it!

Ady

[AllanUK]

KN -- Ady has come up with the answer for you. Ady and two other members of another forum have been a great help to my request in trying to identify the cap badge. Between the three of them, they came up with the answer. I also found the answer with the assistance of a specialist militaria shop in Calgary, Alberta ( https://www.arcticmedals.com/).

One of the three that assisted (he came up with the link to the 30th Infantry Battalion) has suggested that as it is a rare cap badge, would you consider providing a copy of the photograph to the Canadian Archives.

I hope that you eventually find the name of the officer in the photograph.

Allan

[ShaunJ]

The pdf posted by Ady is very helpful in clearing up some confusion:

"The 30th Battalion being the second battalion raised in British Columbia used the designation of the 2nd British Columbia in 1917 adopting badges with this title."

https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/insignia/brookerpdfs/Part%2012%20CEF%20badges%2027%20-%2035.pdf

[AllanUK]

KN -- As we now know that the photograph is of an officer in the 2nd Regiment of the 30th Battalion, I have read through the service records of both Philip Joseph Locke and his brother Victor Franklin and find that when Philip sailed on the 3 October 1914, he was with the 12th Battalion (there is no mention in his file of ever being in the 30th Battalion).

When Victor sailed on the 23 February 1915, he was with the 30th Battalion -- I believe that the photograph that you have is that of Victor Franklin Locke, a Lieutenant in the 30th Battalion.

Images courtesy of the Canadian Archives