Eye (Suffolk) Volunteers
 

Thought this small article I recently came across in an old 1950s issue of East Anglia Magazine, might be of interest, especially to those with an interest in the Suffolks:

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Insignia not visible at all really... perhaps someone might like to contribute some badge pics relating to the pictures and maybe the article too?

JT

They are wearing the Suffolk Regt. cap badge, but of course we cannot know the exact version however. The tunics of the ORs are the standard scarlet with yellow cuffs and collars, but can't make out the shoulder titles.
Interesting that the officer is wearing the old first pattern OSD with stand collar at that time. I guess the territorial battalions were slow to change.

CB

It would be the TF version of the cap badge

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ictureid=43828

Thanks blokes.

Looking at that photo from 1912, you cannot help but wonder who among these young chaps went to war and returned, and who fell.

My Suffolk Regiment knowledge is pretty spartan… am I right in thinking the 5th Bn. served at Gallipoli?

JT

http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/...folk-regiment/

The best site for such answers - they were in Gallipoli for 3 months in 1915.
Whe n you see how many duplicate battalions were raised in 1914/15 then you can see why the TF bagde is so common.

Agreed; it's a super website.

Thank you.

JT

It wasn’t really a stand collar, but a fold over type closed at the neck with hooks. Coincidentally it was in the year that the photo was taken, 1912, that the modification to create an open, stepped collar with shirt and tie was formally approved. The original 1902 type had 5-buttons fastening the front and the 1912 modification reduced that to four.