Unknown Regiment

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This photo is probably not sharp enough to identify the regiment. But it looks about right for 1870's - In camp at Aldershot.
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Steve Reinstadtler

Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:26 pm

You do realise you've just thrown down the gauntlet to Mr Young.

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As if! Isn't it odd how familiar some of those faces seem to be - but just like group photos of more recent times, they all look the same in uniform. What I also find interesting is that these are the original Crimea period barrack huts in Aldershot.

Steve

Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:12 pm

Steve I slept in a couple just like that. In Hohne Belsen we slept in the old SS barracks, been in some interesting spots Shocked

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Same huts in an earlier time. Crimea period uniforms.
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Steve

Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:44 pm

Steve,

Your first photograph is post-1878 at the earliest. The officers are wearing the star pattern Home Service helmet plate. The detail is blurred when I attempt to increase the image size, but the officer on the far right appears to have a Lieutenant’s star on his left shoulder which would put the image post-1881. Dark facings so either a Royal Regiment of the Line, or an Irish Regiment.

JY

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Well done JY - better than I could have done.

Steve

Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:50 pm

Steve,

The same wooden huts forming the backdrop to the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment, late 1860’s.

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57th Regiment, late 1860’s.
John Young Collection.

JY