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Please Help Identify Regiment
As far as I know the chap on the left was conscripted in 1917 and served in the Labour Corps. He was from Manchester and had been refused service before, due to poor eye sight.
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Looks like it could be the fat bugle DLI (Durham Light Infantry) to me.
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My first thoughts too, looks like DLI.
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Must be someone else as the man in the photo has 3 overseas service chevrons so was overseas in 1916 at the latest and probably joined up in 1915.
Agreed DLI, and no Labour Corps connection seen? regards
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Simon Butterworth Manchester Regiment Collector Rank, Prize & Trade Badges British & Commonwealth Artillery Badges |
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He has three overseas service chevrons on his right sleeve so he joined before 1917. He is wearing a Light Infantry cap badge, either DLI or KSLI, hard to tell.
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Looks like a crown to me rather than a knot of KSLI. But it is difficult to tell as the badge is clearly bent back into the fold of the cap.
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One thing's for sure, it's not the Labour Corps.
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Thanks everyone. I'll find out more and come back to you. What is the single chevron on his left arm?
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Believe it’s a good conduct stripe, however I’m no uniform aficionado. Am sure others will correct me if wrong.
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The chap's son tells me his father enlisted in May 1917 and the photo was taken in August 1919. He's checking details to solve the mystery.
I'm presuming the chap was transferred to the Light Infantry after overseas service, explaining why only LC service is shown on medal records. Thanks to all. |
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That's probably not right. The usual practice was to transfer out of the infantry into the Labour Corps : often on medical downgrading after injury. However it was often common for the soldiers to retain their original infantry badge and not wear the LC badge.
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I've found that JA Brown joined the Army in May 1917 and went to France on 9th June.
If he joined one of the the Employment Companies that he previously been a DLI Works Company, may he have been given a cap badge for the DLI? Pure specualtion, but interested to know when the LC Cap Badge was introduced. It would also be odd for the Company to have most men weraing their DLI Badge and a few new recruits wearing different. Could the 3 stripes be Good Conduct and single stripe be Overseas? He didn't receive a Star or Gallantry Medals, just the VM & BWM. Could he have received these ribbons at different times? I thought they were distributed at the same time. Perhaps he obtained the ribbon from somewhere else? Any help appreciated. |
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