Battle Patch - RF Battalion ID, Please
 

Is anyone able to ID which RF battalion this fusilier is from by way of a bit of battle patch recognition, please?:

Attachment 140004Attachment 140005Attachment 140006

With thanks.

Could be 10th or 13th Royal Fusiliers, 37th Div - who originally had a horse shoe-patch with points down, but the GOC ordered the patch with points up as of November 1916 and then later had them moved to the upper arm.

Div Patch
 

10th or 13th Royal Fusiliers serving in 37th Div.

Rob

Could the bar under the horseshoe be a seniority bar and this Bn was senior in the brigade/Division?

More than likely as both were senior battalions in their inidividual Brigades - 10th Bn, were 111th Bde and 13th were 112th Bde, but I'm afraid I don't know the colouring.

Cosmic!

Coloured patches
 

This has always been the problem with black and white photos, coloured patches can often only be given an aducated guess due to the lack of colour.

Rob

And it's surprising how deceptive colour tones and contrasts can be in B&W photos. If you take a medal ribbon for example and look at the same ribbon being worn in a B&W photo, depending on the colour, there is often no resemblance to the real thing.

David

BATTLE PATCH RF
 

Hi
Looks like 13 Bn, as 10 Bn wore a circle
Regards
Talos