Zulu Dawn:“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Subject: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:48 pm
This photo is probably not sharp enough to identify the regiment. But it looks about right for 1870's - In camp at Aldershot. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Steve Reinstadtler
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7919 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:26 pm
You do realise you've just thrown down the gauntlet to Mr Young.
rusteze
Posts : 2872 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:04 pm
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
Frank Allewell
Posts : 7919 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
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
rusteze
Posts : 2872 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:29 pm
Same huts in an earlier time. Crimea period uniforms. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Steve
John Young
Posts : 2302 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
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
rusteze
Posts : 2872 Join date : 2010-06-02
Subject: Re: Unknown Regiment Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:48 pm
Well done JY - better than I could have done.
Steve
John Young
Posts : 2302 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
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.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] 57th Regiment, late 1860’s. John Young Collection.
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