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Pride for Red Dolores
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posted 05 January 2008 04:01 PM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In this picture of my great grandfather in Paris outside in ww1, on his cap there's what looks like a stag with something like a horn coming out of its chest on his hat, and something that looks like a castle on his left arm. I've looked around, but I can't seem to find what regiment this makes him part of, or a website with a list of insignia from that time.

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posted 05 January 2008 04:19 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Can you give me some background on where he is was from or where he may of enlisted?

I have a few ideas right now but I need some more info.


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posted 05 January 2008 05:05 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

Just a guess at the moment. I hope it helps.


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Pride for Red Dolores
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posted 05 January 2008 07:09 PM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I talked to my mother and all she remebers is something about Yorkshire. The picture in the link looks similar to the below - but the head seems to be back, and not forward. Look at the 2 captions I added of the picture.


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posted 05 January 2008 07:26 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It is common to have slightly different cap badges depending when and where soldiers received their uniforms. Different manufactures would have produced different styles of cap badge.

From the link on the Yorkshire regiment, the area produced 23 battalions of infantry this may the difference in the badges.

The other problem is that unless you know what regiment he was in, researching British cap badges are very difficult because British units have been combined and re-badge many times over the last 300 years. I believe the current Yorkshire Regiment is the combination of about 6 or 7 units.

Have you tried look for your relative’s war records on line? All Canadian World War One records are on line and I am sure that the British records are on the net.


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posted 05 January 2008 08:18 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
British War Records

This link may be of use.


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posted 05 January 2008 08:36 PM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Apparently there's some in the national archives- I can look by name.
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posted 06 January 2008 07:19 AM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've tried looking for my Great Grandfather's military records, which I'm sure exist, but I find the site very difficult to use. I could be because he served before WWI, and all the records from the 1700's to then are lumped together.

I might also wrestle his marriage certificate from my brother sometime, and make sure I have as much info as possible before I try again.


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posted 06 January 2008 07:25 AM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tommy

I would be willing to help, I have been researching records for a few years.


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posted 06 January 2008 07:37 AM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I will get document-- the only one I have, I'd greatly appreciate the help.

It seems to me he served during times of relative peace for the British Empire, but I'm curious about where he served and when, and with what regiment.


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posted 06 January 2008 07:57 AM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am glad that I can help. I have been lucky with my family history, I can trace most of my family roots back to at least the early 1800s.
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posted 06 January 2008 10:27 AM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think I got it ! see the linkhere and here the only problem is that this is Warwickshire, and not Yorkshire. But that could either be my mother's memory, or maybe since it was a postcard to his girlfriend (my great granny)he borrowed a buddy's nicer uniform.

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posted 08 January 2008 01:47 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thousands follow soldier's fate in WW1 "blog"

Thousands of people have been following the fate of a British soldier fighting in the trenches of World War One on a Web site publishing his letters home exactly 90 years after they were written.

British Soldier Harry Lamin


Pride for Red Dolores.... I saw this new article today and thought about your great grandfather.

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