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Re: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 24 August 23 08:25 BST (UK) »
They do look a bit odd, don’t they 😁 For me it’s all the dark eyes 😉
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Sharp(e) - Hertfordshire, Suffolk
Lee - Ireland
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Re: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 24 August 23 15:38 BST (UK) »
Unstretched
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: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 24 August 23 16:10 BST (UK) »
Thank you Jim1 ❤️
Davison - London
South - London, Hampshire
Sharp(e) - Hertfordshire, Suffolk
Lee - Ireland
Summerfield - London, Buckinghamshire
Bickers - London, Norfolk, Suffolk
Guiver - London, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire
Murray - London
Hill - London, Devon

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Re: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #12 on: Friday 25 August 23 19:23 BST (UK) »
They are the King's Liverpool Regiment.  It is written on the side of the pagris on their foreign service helmets so an easy ID.

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Re: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #13 on: Friday 25 August 23 19:25 BST (UK) »
I should add the 2nd Battalion were in India circa 1926.

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« Reply #14 on: Friday 25 August 23 19:37 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much, alan o.  I’m very grateful - still means nothing to me but I can pass it on to cousin and hope she can make use of it.  Thank you again 👏🏻👏🏻
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South - London, Hampshire
Sharp(e) - Hertfordshire, Suffolk
Lee - Ireland
Summerfield - London, Buckinghamshire
Bickers - London, Norfolk, Suffolk
Guiver - London, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire
Murray - London
Hill - London, Devon

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« Reply #15 on: Friday 25 August 23 19:42 BST (UK) »
The patch was actually white lettering on a red background.

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Re: Help to identify the regiment
« Reply #16 on: Friday 25 August 23 21:35 BST (UK) »
That's great work Alan. I would not have spotted the text.
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