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Offline woo7173

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Re: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 11 November 24 19:19 GMT (UK) »
Best I can do to enlarge it , Two letters and then a Y maybe , Yeomanry possibly ? 
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Re: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 03:50 GMT (UK) »
I can't interpret the shoulder titles from the photo but from the uniform I'd have thought Yeomanry. If he lived in Frome then likely to be the North Somerset or possibly the Royal Wiltshire.

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Baron (of Blackburn), Chadwick (Oswaldtwistle), Watkins (Swansea), Jones (x3 Swansea), Colton (Shropshire), Knight (Shropshire/Montgomery) , Bullen (Norfolk), White (Dorset)

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Re: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 08:57 GMT (UK) »
If you knew what would have been his home address in 1918, you could see if he could be found on the relevant Absent Voters' List, and if that reveals his regimental details.
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Re: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 08:59 GMT (UK) »
If the shoulder title does say Yeomanry, then as MaecW says, the North Somerset Yeomanry is the most likely candidate. They were founded as the Frome Troop in 1798, and together with the East Mendip Regiment became the North Somerset Yeomanry in 1814. The Regiment has always had a base in Frome. During the Second Boer War the North Somerset provided around 115 troopers to form the 4th Company of the 7th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. They were used in the mounted infantry role.

At the start of the First World War the Regiment was split into two, with the Territorial Force soldiers who had volunteered to serve overseas forming the 1/1st North Somerset Yeomanry which went to France on 3 November 1914 as part of 6th Cavalry Brigade, while those who had only signed up for the home defence role remained in Britain as the 2/1st North Somerset Yeomanry, stationed initially in the Calne area before being moved to Kent, then much later to Dublin.


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Re: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 11:06 GMT (UK) »
Every Territorial Regt. had the letter "T" above the title.
This one doesn't.
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: Needing help with identifying the regiment ?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 13 November 24 01:10 GMT (UK) »
I'm not sure that is necessarily correct.
See the attached Pembroke Yeomanry brass.
Perhaps it depended on time and place ?
Baron (of Blackburn), Chadwick (Oswaldtwistle), Watkins (Swansea), Jones (x3 Swansea), Colton (Shropshire), Knight (Shropshire/Montgomery) , Bullen (Norfolk), White (Dorset)