Help on Uniform and Cap Badge Identification

[Paul2018]

The attached photograph is of my great grandad William Robson who died sometime during WW1. I am currently attempting to find his roots but have scant details to go on.

New link to photo...
https://ibb.co/hsdxz7

I have posted this on a couple other sites where one person seems certain he is of the Northumberland Fusiliers and is a Private.

It seems however that the cap badge he has is quite different from a typical NF badge. I want to know if different regiments of NF had different badges, and if possible could someone accurately identify this cap badge regiment and dress to confirm what has already been said on other sites.

Also he has some type of chain in his pocket and I wonder if this is also relevant.

Many thanks for any help you can give.
Paul.

[Bill A]

Hello Pual2018, welcome to the Forum. Your account is active and open for posts.

[manchesters]

WW1 Private in the NF.

regards

[ebro]

Northumberland Fusiliers Private.

[leigh kitchen]

I can't be sure of the badge (looking at it on a phone) other than that it may be NF, I can't really be sure of the flame silhouette.
I wondered about Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
At least one William Robson of that regiment died during WWI.
A quick records check shows a number of Northumberland Fusiliers named William Robson who died during WWI.

The pocket chain will just be a watch chain or similar.

edit - I'm veering more towards R. Innis. Fus. from what I can make out of the flame silhouette and the design on the ball of the grenade, but still not sure.

[Paul2018]

Thanks for the responses.

I have been asking on a couple other sites too and most are saying he is indeed NF Private. However, I am a little worried that his cap badge appears quite different than other WW1 cap badges pictures I have seen. As Leigh here has pointed out it looks more like the Inniskilling regiment than NF. Another person pointed this out on another forum too, but still goes with the NF Private, which seems likely the case.

I will still leave it open that he could be Inniskilling too. As you say the pocket chain is not likely significant.

The problem seems a little compounded with the picture being so badly damaged, so we are possibly not seeing what the badge really looked like.

I have a list of William Robson's to go through who died in NF. I have a difficult time-consuming job trying to eliminate unlikely ones but will continue as have been this past year trying. Its a challenge.

Just want to be as certain as I can of what regiment he was in...NF or Inniskilling is a good bet so far.

Many thanks for the info offered by you guys. Any extra info I get I will post here.
Paul.