Help to identify uniform

[radnor1]

Please can somone help to identify this uniform?  The photo was found in my aunts belongings after her death in mid wales.  I am not sure if it is of a family member.
Thanks

[alan o]

He is a Royal Welsh Fusilier.  WW1 era.

[radnor1]

Many thanks

[LimerickLad]

I suppose your noticed the name on the back of the postcard, Gordon Owen Gla?  Limerick Ireland.

The Welch fusiliers were in Limerick in the New Barracks from 1917 to 1921 2nd Battalion or 3rd  Battalion, depending on the year.  There are photos of them parading to St Mary's cathedral.  There are some war graves for members of the regiment in Limerick.

[Kiltaglassan]

New Barracks, Limerick
(MapGenie 25 Inch [1897-1913] in Basemap Gallery)

https://arcg.is/11ijT0

[radnor1]

Thankyou Limericklad.

Gordon Owens was my grandfather (born 1903).  I was always told that he wasn't in WW1 so assumed this was not a photo of him, but perhaps I have been mis informed.  I will look into this further.

Radnor1

[alan o]

If he was born in 1903 then he would have been underage until 1921 so he is unlikely to have served during the war.  By 1918 he was only 15 and whilst underage enlistment was not uncommon at the start of the war by 1918 they had clamped down on it.

[SMJ]

But old enough to have been involved in the later stages and aftermath of the Irish War of Independence. Elements of the RWF remained until Dec 1922.