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Post by Mal on Sept 14, 2009 14:56:30 GMT -5
Hello there,
Off topic a bit, but is anyone here a military expert with knowledge of the First World War? Is there anywhere one can find out? I have "inherited" a lot of photographs, and have several from the First World War. Unfortunately no one bothered to write the names on them so I am at a miss to work out who these poor men are. On the photos you can make out the insignia and the cap badges, if I can work out the regiments it may help...
Is there an online catalogue of cap badges? Why in one photo are the uniforms "mixed"- i.e. different regiments?
Help!
M
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Post by newlyn on Sept 14, 2009 15:24:32 GMT -5
If you google 'cap badges ww1'
Lots of sites there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2009 15:54:46 GMT -5
Malcolm
Big job mate - different regiments, different time of the war (colour certainly disappeared from uniforms with the advent of the sniper) and different countries.
Lannanta
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Post by tonymitch on Sept 15, 2009 13:00:18 GMT -5
Try....1914-1918.invisionzone.com
Been a great help to me in trying to find info on my two uncles who fought in that lousy war.
Tony M
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Post by Mal on Sept 15, 2009 14:51:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the information chaps. Most of the photographs show boys no more than 18 or 20. At least one we may know, and he was killed on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1/7th battalion. Quite sad really as I know on another side of my family four brothers went away and only one came back...dying not long after of wounds sustained. All the more reason I would hate for these poor lads to be forgotten.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2009 16:43:30 GMT -5
Malcolm
Strange old thing that war. My grandfather and three of his Glasson brothers all went away to the first war - a machine gunner, an artillery man, an infantry man and a horseman in the mounted rifles. My grandfather was the only one seriously wounded in 1918, but they all came home. As bad luck would have it two were dead by 1931, my grandfather included.
I visited the battlefields back in 2002 and was lucky enough to have my own guide. While I was interested in following the footsteps of the New Zealanders it was clear that you could not get a clear picture of the Western Front without looking at the other nations. The most poignant moment for me was when my guide, Tom, related the story of the Lancashire Fusiliers on the first day of the Somme and then to see the small paddock, in front of the sunken road where they jumped from, where they met a very quick and sad end.
Lannanta
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