Tyneside Inniskillings
Sadly the badge being worn hasn't been positively identified as either N.F. or Inniskillings, on top of which many of you will be unaware of the fact that during the early stages of the Great War(1914/15) the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were allowed to recruit directly from Tyneside, with the aspect of forming a "Tyneside Company" of 250men and as such advertisements were placed locally asking for men to come forward.
So successful was the campaign to recruit from this region that a second company was to be raised to be followed by more men and it is estimated that eventually around about 1,000 men from this region served with the Inniskillings. So it is quite possible he may have been the one that High Wood has named.
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