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Who, What, Where, When? #4
Assistance required please to ID the following uniforms, nationalities etc., slotted in here among our boys.
With thanks, JT |
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Is there a possibility that these guys are actors and/or extras from a film?
Tim
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Worth considering though, thank you. JT |
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China, Peking, post-Boxer war?
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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?
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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? |
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Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian or Italian?
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Have I missed anyone out?
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British, Italian and Turkish.......just my 2 pence.
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Could be, I'd done quick checks of Italian & Turkish but not come up with anything.
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It looks like these chaps are Spanish Lancers or LANCEROS DE VILLAVICIOSA NÂș 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 |
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That looks spot on (I'd checked out Spanish uniforms along with half the rest of the world but didn't have any success).
I wonder exactly where & when? |
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It does indeed look spot on.
I'm assuming that 'EPOCA ALFONSO XIII', means in the reign of King Alfonso 13th, which does not help a great deal in terms of 'when', as his watch was from 1886 until 1931. Excellent stuff so far gentleman. Thank you one and all for all your super contributions. JT |
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A web search shows Spanish troops (on horseback, similar helmets) entering Gibraltar for a King George VI jubilee parade in 1935, I wonder if they would have done similar for Queen Victoria's 1897 jubilee?
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The men in plumed helmets appear to be wearing the same uniforms & insignia as the Spanish soldiers in the photo linked by zob:
https://www.todocoleccion.net/milita...ia-s~x67930073 I hadn't twigged the significance of the Wolsley, which was in use by 1898. British troops ex-India, now Gibraltar & retaining the frocks for non formal wear? |
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