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Uniform Identification Request

MWS

MWS

from Bham
This is supposedly a picture my grandfather, who served in WW1 but he looks too young in this photo for it to be of that period. Can anyone shed any light on it? Thanks.

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thats a lovely photo MWS and i must say he does look at least 18 to me...there was a lot of under ages signing up though...do you have his army records...our experts on here maybe able to identify his cap badge...

lyn
 
MWS said:
This is supposedly a picture my grandfather, who served in WW1 but he looks too young in this photo for it to be of that period. Can anyone shed any light on it? Thanks.

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Yes he looks young WMS but even so, he is a soldier in WW1 !
His cap badge looks like The Royal Welsh Fusiliers but I'll have another search, just to make sure.
 
Thank you for your replies.

That throws a bit of a spanner in the work.

My grandfather was definitely in the Labour Corps and was 37 when the war started. When I said too young I meant for the year not his age. Unfortunately I don't have his army records and I'm not sure if he was in the army before hand, he appears on both the 1901 and 1911 census as a civilian.

However, I know his younger brother was definitely in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 1898 to 1914. He was born in 1880.
 
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