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Picking up on Jim and Leigh's comments about Royal Marine bands here is a photo which I believe shows a Bandsman around the 1920's or 30's. He wears a bandsmans lyre device at the collars and one piece white metal badge. His dark tunic bears only a left chest pocket and you can make out two long service chevrons to the left sleeve. It appears that he is pictured onboard ship, would all ships have RM Drummers or Bandsmen onboard? or perhaps he is part of a band on route to a foreign posting?

Need better photos I'm afraid, could be any one of a number of Regiments. Obviously a Light Infantry or Rifles connection though :cheers:

A new one in my collection and one to keep this thread moving. Silver SC holder and if I'm not mistaken an earlier picture of the man in post 62. No breast eagle or other ribbons but very close resemblance. Jacques?

And the Diplomat.

A close up of the GOC. (I know I need an Epson)

This photograph has 'GOC British forces at Shanghai' written to the reverse and IMHO dates to the late 30's. The Officer has a metal badge to the front of his helmet which I would imagine denotes his rank although it is hard to make out. There is also a cloth puggaree flash which again is obscured. The other man is from the Diplomatic Service? He wears a metal Royal Coat of Arms type metal badge and as you can see there are slight differences to the shapes of the headwear. Any thoughts on id Gentlemen.

Thought I'd post this image of crew members of HMS Cumberland to show the differences in shape between the Royal Navy pattern helmet and that of the Royal Marines.

Talking of chanting by protesters my favourite of all time was policing the veal crate demos down at Shoreham in Sussex when the demonstrators would stand outside Mcdonalds and chant 'Fillet of fish, evil dish'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A very emotive subject for demonstration but we couldn't help smiling when they sang. :rolleyes:

Another very interesting thread Dave, many thanks. Here's another one for you to get your teeth into, no TENO I'm afraid but as I see it Wassershultzpolizei, Polizei and Reichsluftschutzbund personnel. The rear of this photo is blank I'm afraid so no idea as to the location or reason for this grouping.

Exactly that Mervyn, everything in that act from scrubbing door steps to straw for horses.....us poor County Officers had to make do with the more subdued Town and Police clauses act! By the way I just checked the 'book' and so as not to scare people they didn't number the pages........FIFTY TWO chapters to memorise though!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll try and dig out my passing out photo for Surrey and post it

The front page from this large all encompassing black book should take you back a bit Mervyn. Dated 1969 its about your era too. Ah the Metropolitan Police act................covers just about everything hey Merv :cheers:

Found it, SORRY :speechless:

Cant access the link, can you try again please :cheers:

A very poweful reminder of the sacrifices made during the Great War where small villages like Burwash lost huge numbers of men of the same generation.

The War Memorial near the church.

R Langridge Royal Navy HMS Ganges.

Pte T Parks 5th Royal Sussex (Pioneers) KIA 15.9.17.

Corporal S Taylor 5th Royal Sussex (Pioneers) KIA 22.9.17.

Another view.

I recently had the good fortune to visit the National Trust property called Batemans in Sussex which was once the home of the famous authour Rudyard Kipling. After the visit my other half and I stopped in the village of Burwash which is nearby and decided to visit the church. Inside the porch we discovered a series of original wooden Great War grave markers some with carved details and many with small galavanised metal strips impressed with the soldiers details. We questioned the Rector of the church who stated that she believed that all these markers were collected by Rudyard Kipling and placed within the church in eternal memory of the local village men who were killed. Ofcourse Kipling spent many weeks trying to locate the remains of his son Jack and I would assume these markers were collected then. Both a film and a book are available detailing his search for his son. A short distance from the church is the village memorial where all the Fallens details can be found.

It is strange come to think of it as amongst the photos I have there are both sides represented, perhaps an enterprising press man selling copies of both sides?

As I said there are a lot of these photos which I do not think are appropriate for this forum showing Japanese Officers executing Chinese civilians and the aftermath of beheadings. There are also a series of photos showing a military funeral for British Naval personnel with US Marines, French Navy and Indian calvary in attendance, these are dated 1938 and I'm unsure whether they are combat or accident casualties. Maybe your photos relate to this Japanese invasion of China although as I said I'm no expert on this era. Anyone Gentlemen?

This one is marked 'Fire at Chapin, Shanghai, Japanese offensive'

This one is marked to the reverse 'Evacuating civilians in the face of the invasion'

Rumjar, here are a few of the photos I mentioned, they appear to have belonged to a crew member of HMS Cumberland which was stationed in the South China Sea at the time of the Japanese invasion of Canton. Firstly a view of crew members and Marines ashore,