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November 2012
Each month we will be asking members to post up family history photographs from a particular catagory. As it is Armistice Day later this month our photo catagory for November is 'soldiers'. Do you have any army photos from the past? (Just army photos this month please - we will be doing other services later)
Photos posted on this thread will eventually be added to our 'Decades of Family History Photographs' forum in order to help others with dating old photographs. (You are welcome to post any photos you like directly to the Decades forum at any time; these monthy requests are just further encouragement!)
Please note that this thread is on an open forum so any captions to your photos may be picked up by Google searches. If you are lucky you may make a family history contact through your post! I made my best family history contact ever through a photograph caption posted on this site!
There is no restriction to the number of photographs you post each month - the more the merrier! However, please make separate posts if your photos are from different decades. Remember to caption your photograph and if you know the date or approximate date, please state that also. If you are unsure, then that is something we can discuss on the thread.
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How to upload images (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=46496&postcount=2)
Please make sure you have the permission of any named living people in your photos to post their image.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/TyrrellThomas2.jpg
Thomas Tyrrell 1863 - 1910
Colour Sergeant, Suffolk Regiment.
Served in India, Malta and South Africa.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/EdmondsNormaninRome1_zpsb5adc42d.jpg
British Army bods on leave in Rome after the Italian surrender.
My Dad's in the middle of the back row with a flat hat!
WendyPusey
01-11-12, 10:20
My Grandfather Arthur Richard Horne, who was killed in action and buried in France.
This is the only photo I have of him in uniform.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m20/wendypusey/GrandfatherHorne2.png
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k132/KiwiChris_2006/NanandArchie.jpg
My Grandfather Archibald Campbell Hickton with his sister Nan, probably taken about 1916
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k132/KiwiChris_2006/Jackinthetrenches.jpg
My Grandfather John Leo O'Keefe in the trenches WW1, he is the one sitting down.
This is Great Aunt Nan (Ann Elizabeth Hickton) again, this time with her husband Harold Lechner, I believe it is their wedding photo, so taken 24 April 1917! How is that for accurate dating. :D
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k132/KiwiChris_2006/NanandHarold.jpg
Oakum Picker
01-11-12, 17:28
My grandfather John CRICKMORE c. 1915/16
He served with the 1st Suffolks during the Boer War & with the 3rd Suffolks & Royal Scots during WWI.
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww304/Kiegsien/img034.jpg
Lynn the Forest Fan
01-11-12, 19:13
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/lynnlyons_2006/JVLucas.jpg
My husband's great grandfather Joseph Vincent Lucas, served in the RGA from 1915 - 1919
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/lynnlyons_2006/tank.jpg
With one of the guns
Lynn the Forest Fan
01-11-12, 19:16
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/lynnlyons_2006/GeorgeHNelson.jpg
Another of my husband's great grandfathers, George Hillis Nelson, served in the cheshire Regiment from 1893 to 1919. Awarded the DSO during WW1
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z293/valgray99/The%20Millers/CharlesmillerJuniorSoldier.jpg
My Uncle Charles Miller in The Middlesex Regiment ,got killed the 4 Sep 1939 in Hong Kong he is the one second left and capless
Look a right bunch dont they ?
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z293/valgray99/The%20Millers/Soldier-1.jpg
Another of Charles
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z293/valgray99/The%20Millers/Henryalone.jpg
My Uncle Henry Miller during the second world war dont know which Regiment
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z293/valgray99/The%20Millers/AlexanderMiller2.jpg
My Grandfathers Brother Alexander Miller in The Army Service Corp Remount Company First World War
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z293/valgray99/The%20Millers/AlexanderMiller.jpg
Alex again
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb93/JillontheA272/General/UnwrittenpostcardLeagraveStationsoldiersholdinghor ses.jpg
Soldiers and their horses at Leagrave c1916. My granddad did war work here before he enlisted in 1916.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb93/JillontheA272/General/253gPWWcampNorwichMouseholdHeath1946-7195.jpg
Soldiers at 253G PWW Camp. Mousehold Heath, Norwich 1946/7
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb93/JillontheA272/General/253gPWWcampMouseholdHeathNorwich1946-8190.jpg
German soldiers, prisoners of war awaiting repatriation from 253G PWW Camp c1946
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb93/JillontheA272/General/BroughtonAbbottLancsFusiliers.jpg
Broughton Abbott of the Lancashire Fusiliers, b 1892 Barnoldswick. He had been a soldier for 7 years when he died of wounds on 26 April 1917 near Calais. He had seved in India and the Dardanelles. He was shot in the legs at Suvla Bay and spent time in hospital in Malta before returning to England for a year. 5 weeks before his death he was sent to France and was wounded again in both legs, his right leg was amputuated above the knee and nursing sister WM Langlands wrote to the family to tell them of the grave situation, and then again to inform them of his death. He was my great grandmother's brother.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/WalterClarkWW1.jpg
My grandfather, Walter Henry Clark (1888-1965), 2nd Lieutenant, Dorset Regiment outside his parent's home, The Ferns, Winscombe, Somerset in the summer of 1915.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/WalterClark.jpg
My grandfather, Walter Henry Clark (1888-1965), Captain (according to his army record so why only two pips?) Royal Engineers in 1943.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/WalterClark.jpg
My grandfather, Walter Henry Clark (1888-1965), Captain (according to his army record so why only two pips?) Royal Engineers in 1943.
Pic taken before he was became a captain?
According to his army papers and his CV he was supposed to have been a lieutenent until he was demobbed in 1918 and then went back in the army as a Captain at the end of 1942.
It was only today I noticed the uniform discrepancy, having looked at the photo for the past 45 years!
I just this moment looked in the Gazette and saw:
Corps of Royal Engineers
The undermentioned to be Lts:
6th October 1940
Walter Henry Clark (152378)
This is an earlier date than I had for him rejoining the army (he worked for the MoD as a civilian from 1939 until......well I thought that was until the end of 1942??!!) so I will have to get his army papers out again and have another look at them. :o
I guess what you said is correct, Shona :D I'm glad I took a second look at this picture now (well, probably a 10,002 look!)
These are from OH's tree.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/Shauns%20Family%20History%20Photos/Ben1.jpg
The above photo is on a postcard and written on the back it says:
Best Wishes from Ben
to Mother Lily and Bert
Write soon
The wound is on my left hand.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/Shauns%20Family%20History%20Photos/Ben.jpg
and this one is also a photo on a postcard, this time with the photographer's details: Photo by W White, 21 Broad St, Wolverhampton and the writing says:
Keep this one and I will send you an enlargement.
That's me standing up. Ben.
After about 20 years++ of wondering we are still stuck with who Ben is! We know who Lily and Bert are, but whilst "mother" is obviously Ben's mother she isnt their mother too.
I don't know what that dress uniform is either.
Oh and I forgot, who else thinks the two Ben's don't look like the same person, yet the name and handwriting seem the same!
Best fit for that jacket, so far, is this red one:
Gieves and Hawkes (http://discover.gievesandhawkes.com/military/uniforms)
But I can't see anywhere that says what it is!
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 11:40
We have no idea who this is other than that it is a member of my husbands family.
WW1
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/UnknownperhapsBernardJohnStanbridgeRFA.jpg
WW1
My husbands great uncle, Francis Stanbridge 1895-1916
11046 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/FrancisStanbridge-1.jpg
Francis again with his sister Elsie and half sister Selina
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/FrancisS-ElsieS-possCelinaPowell-1.jpg
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 11:44
WW1
My grandfather Edgar Newey 1883-1934 Durham Light Infantry Private 40831
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyEdgarWW12.jpg
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyEdgarWW11.jpg
OH's grandfather Peter Henry Harrison 1885-1965 Private 8003 Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry taken whilst a POW.
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/PeterHenryHarrison-PrisonerofWarWW1-1.jpg
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 11:49
Boar War
My grandfather Edgar Newey 1883-1934 North Staffordshire reg. Private 5229.
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/EdgarNewey-1.jpg
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 11:59
WW2
OH's uncle Reginald Horace Harrison 1911-2009 Ordanance Corp
Taken in the Garden of Gethsemane
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/ReginaldHorace-1943age32GardenofGethsemeneJerusalem.jpg
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/ReginaldHoraceHarrison.jpg
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/ReginaldHoraceHarrison-1941age30.jpg
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/ReginaldHHarrison.jpg
I teased him he thought he was Clark Gable in the last one.
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonReginald2.png
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonReginald1.png
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 12:03
WW2
My father in law, Ronald Harrison 1920-2010 RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) WW2,reg no. 192889 (affiliated to the 8th Army) Rank - Driver
Not brilliant pics, very faded.
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonRonald4.png
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonRonald8.png
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonRonald3.png
father in law on the right
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/HarrisonRonald2.png
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 12:10
WW2
Another of OH's uncles. Reginald John Dixon 1901-1981
I'm not sure of his regiment but believe he was an officer.
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/DixonReg.jpg
Margaret in Burton
12-11-12, 12:12
WW2
My uncle Maurice William Newey 1913-1995
He was in the 8th Army in North Africa and was taken a POW
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyMauriceright.png
Maurice on the right
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/NeweyMauricecentre.png
Maurice in the centre
This is my great-uncle, Lieutenant Clifford Stanley Clark, Royal Field Artillery - b 14th Feb 1898 d 30th May 1919. Clifford died of pneumonia whilst serving in the Army of occupation in Cologne, Germany. He was awarded the Military Cross on 26th July 1918.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/CliffordClark2-1.jpg
This is his brother-in-law, Captain Edmund Walker, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Edmund was also awarded the Military Cross, in July 1917. He was awarded two bars to his MC over the course of the rest of WW1.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/EdmundWalker.jpg
Admin note......Decades threads updated to here
Durham Lady
18-11-12, 19:51
These are from OH's tree.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/Shauns%20Family%20History%20Photos/Ben1.jpg
The above photo is on a postcard and written on the back it says:
Best Wishes from Ben
to Mother Lily and Bert
Write soon
The wound is on my left hand.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/Shauns%20Family%20History%20Photos/Ben.jpg
and this one is also a photo on a postcard, this time with the photographer's details: Photo by W White, 21 Broad St, Wolverhampton and the writing says:
Keep this one and I will send you an enlargement.
That's me standing up. Ben.
After about 20 years++ of wondering we are still stuck with who Ben is! We know who Lily and Bert are, but whilst "mother" is obviously Ben's mother she isnt their mother too.
I don't know what that dress uniform is either.
Oh and I forgot, who else thinks the two Ben's don't look like the same person, yet the name and handwriting seem the same!
Merry, the badge on the collar looks like it's from one of the Staffordshire regiments. Definately looks like a Stafford knot.
Thank you for that Daphne. I had often wondered if the Wolverhampton photographer was a red herring, but now I think it can't be!! :):):)
Durham Lady
18-11-12, 22:03
Merry, you could try contacting the Staffordshire Regiment Museum to see if they can definately identify the uniform. I'm sure the hat badge of the chap sitting in the second photo is the Staffs Regiment badge.
http://staffordshireregimentmuseum.com/
I'll try that, Daphne. Thankyou.
I keep wondering why Ben was sending his photo to someone who needed to be told which man he was ("That's me standing up"). Curious unless they hasn't seen each other since he was a lot younger, perhaps?
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