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Originally Posted by Carnforth
It's a good question, my belief is that it was because the RE Signal Service was designated 'Mounted' - however at the moment I can't find a reference to confirm that.
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It's not a definitive reference but it does indicate that at least some of the RE
Signals Service formations were classified as mounted.
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The first photograph was of John Revie as a Pioneer, newly enlisted into the Royal Engineers in 1916. This was a postcard photograph of a clean-shaven John Revie in a new uniform, complete with riding crop and spurs typical of a soldier during the Great War period who served in a mounted unit.
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John Revie served in the Signal Service in a unit monitoring enemy communications. Pioneer, his rank on entry, was the norm for unqualified recruit into the RE at the time, he became a Sapper upon qualifying in his signals trade.
I would expect that his uniform of bandolier, riding crop and spurs, with different insignia would have been the same for his Royal Corps of Signals counterpart after 1920.
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