Who, What, Where, When? #4
 

Assistance required please to ID the following uniforms, nationalities etc., slotted in here among our boys.

With thanks,

JT

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144711

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144710

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144709

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144708

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144707

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144706

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144705

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144703

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=144700

Is there a possibility that these guys are actors and/or extras from a film?

Tim

Never say 'never', but I think it all looks a bit too 'period' and authentic to be the case.

Worth considering though, thank you.

JT

China, Peking, post-Boxer war?

There appear to be NCOs and men from three different services here :

A - British Army (one wearing what looks like the Queen's SA Medal with several clasps)

B - chaps in light uniforms with dark collars, large collar badges, and helmets with falling plumes

C - chaps wearing pillbox caps, and collar badges which look like initials, but not in the Roman alphabet.

Nearly half of them (including the bugler) are B. A few of them are wearing large diagonal stripes on their forearms -- rank badges perhaps?

I've been trying to work out if the men in helmets are Austro-Hungarian, but I'm not getting very far at identifying their nationality. I'm interpreting the helmet plates as a central device with bearers, crown above, roughly similar to Bavarian (& many others).
British & east European troops in the Balkans?

It can't be the Balkans if at least 2 appear to be in red tunics. It must be pre-war.

There are at least two different British regiments from looking at the facings.

Oddly enough, the cuffs of the frocks [not tunics] are what I call India pattern, with braid not seen much outside India since the jam pot cuff, never mind the pointed cuff of 1902.

I'm plucking things out of thin air, checking Portuguese re. the plumed helmets

Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian or Italian?

Have I missed anyone out?

British, Italian and Turkish.......just my 2 pence.

Could be, I'd done quick checks of Italian & Turkish but not come up with anything.

For the helmet with plumes, could it be Rampur State Forces?
In 2012 there was a button from this force on the forum.

https://www.royalark.net/India/rampur.htm

It looks like these chaps are Spanish Lancers or LANCEROS DE VILLAVICIOSA Nº 6 - EPOCA ALFONSO XIII, CABALLERIA, which gives the impression that the photo could possibly have been taken somewhere like Gibraltar.

See attached link.

https://www.todocoleccion.net/milita...ia-s~x67930073