Who, What, Where, When? #4

[Jelly Terror]

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

With thanks,

JT

[grey_green_acorn]

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

Tim

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn

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

[grumpy]

China, Peking, post-Boxer war?

[Arthur R]

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?

[leigh kitchen]

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?

[Alan O]

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

[grumpy]

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.

[leigh kitchen]

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

[zob]

Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian or Italian?

[leigh kitchen]

Have I missed anyone out?

[Phil2M]

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

[leigh kitchen]

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

[btns]

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

[zob]

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