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From: "Claire Baldwin" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Photo ID
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:56:36 -0000
References: <004401c2b49f$602e6c10$0c016551@sue9688704288c>


The relatives' different ideas to yours about the man's regiment may be
because he changed regiment- the family may have been proud of his
membership of a prestigious or local regiment but at the time the picture
was taken, he may have been somewhere totally different. As an example, my
gt gt uncle started with North Staffs but was moved to the Northumberland
Fusiliers to make up their depleted numbers following the Somme. He wasn't
with them more than a few days before he was killed but he was very proud to
be in a 'swankey' regiment and following that, the family remembered him as
a Northumberland Fusilier rather than anything else.

Just a thought.

Claire Baldwin
Listowner GREATWAR-L
Suffolk UK


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Light" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: [WW1] Photo ID


> In the course of tracking down Lancing men who served in the Great War, I
have been passed a photo by a relative of a man who survived. I would be
grateful if someone could identify his Corps/Regt. from a scan - my ideas
apparently don't agree with the owners! It can be found at:
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/suelight/penny.html
>
> Thanks very much - Sue
>
>
> Sue Light
> Lancing [West Sussex]
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