Re: A question
This website strikes again, I tried to reply to Terry and was told that I wasn't logged in-of course I was. That's annoying
As db 84124 says, one picture is of a man in the York & Lancaster Regt.
The other pic shows a man in the Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, who joined with the Middlesex Regiment in 1937.
In 1937 the Middlesex were in Hong Kong, which ties in with your uncle being a POW.
I think the newer photo may have been taken after the war, I 'm pretty sure that the collar was buttoned to the neck for the duration of the war.